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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
AMERICAN MANNERS.

Have Americans Any Manners" is
the title of an article by Frederick
Townsend Martin in the new Novem-
Der number of Harper's Bazaar. His
discovery of manners here is intro
duced by the following definition:
Good manners are neither more nor
less than good behavior. Behavior
is the perpetual reveaIer. Good be-
havior is the reflex of good charac-
ter Good character is in neither
birth, wealth, nor fashion, but in the
mind. To possess character is a dig
nifty in itself, higher than any titular
rank or anything we can borrow from
dead mems bones"
His article in The Bazaar goes on to
say: Manners are of more import
ance than laws, are stronger than
laws. Indeed. it has been well said
that upon good manners in a great
measure the laws depend. The law
can touch us here and there, now
and then; but manners are what vex
OF soothe, corrupt or purify. exaIt or
debase, barbarize or refine, by a con-
slant, steady, uniform, insensible
breathe. How often has 1t been said
that good manners are MADE up or
petty sacrifices!
American conditions are conducive
to the development of the best man.
ners. because in America recognition
depends not upon birth, nor upon
wealth, but upon the force of ones
character America is the country of
democracy, in which people do not
borrow from the dead; in which, SO
to speak, every one is his own char
acter and every one his own heir,
and devises his own future and in
herits his own past. In America, a
grandfather is not a social institution;
men do not live in the past
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Iron the Chicago News.l

From the chicago NeWS-I
Love and reason are seldom chums.
Positions of trust and aching teeth are
hard to fill.
Mutual deception is a popular gar e
during courtship.
1t takes a truly great man to convince
other people that he Is great.
Laugh and a woman laughs with you;
weep and her nose gets red.
It's grave situation where there is no
business for the undertaken.
A man may work for all he is worth
and not earn over 81 a week.
A widow who is young, rich and pretty
is monarch of every bachelor she sur
veys
Occasionally young man is SO fast
that it is impossible for him to get to the
front.
There will always e plenty of hard
work to do-and plenty of people who ara
easy to work.
It doesn't console a woman with
wrinkles to tell her they are the dimples
of second childhood
That man doesn't live who has not ~
one time thought he had all the elements
of greatness in him.
Prescriptions are often worth more
than their weight in gold-to the physi-
clans TO the druggist and sometimes 70
the undertaken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
HUNOR OF THE Dry


,BIoobs-How did you get along in Paris7
Slobbs-Not very well Riobbs 49, ~ rs
SPEAK French? Slobbs-Oniy enoneh -
make myself misunderstood .-PhiIad sIr,,,te
Record. NniAaoeipnia
a, Ieaeher-Now you have in front Of vo,,
t ~ Horth' ON your right the east, on yotT
Small Boy-A patch on nv pants ytoI5
iAother you'd see fti-London Opinion
a.. Darling, whispered the young man.
please rest that lovely cheek on INV
Otner shoulder while" us this one tired.
man man It's share Of the face POWDER
Chicago Tribune.
That fellow who filled my legs full Of
snot 9idn't express the slightest sym
pathy," said the hunter. Wasn't he xpov
down a fine bunch OF birds II 1 hadnst
got In the way."-Washington Star.
Dreadfu1i-''You don't seem in a var,
good temper today, Lisa mo. on
servant is Ill, and poor mother has bad
Gratitude, Indeed.-Vfcar-WeH Mr.
Grundy, amid all your troubles a.,
pleased to see that your gratitude -
providence does not fall Mrs C;rundv
10, sir, rheumatic Is bad. indeed bt1f
thank 'eaven still ave a back 10 ave -
rheumatic tn.-Isondon Opinion.
Her Memory. - A1abeI-Daddy. de-,
what am L doing specially on the Isth5
~, We put req INK round II on the calendar.
put can't remember Daddy-Von'f fbs
knots In your handkerchief helm vn19
tied those to remen1l,as IA
marked the calendar.-Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
The UsefnI Si1nian.

An Italian organ grinder possessed n
monkey which he worked through the
summer months. When the cool days OF
the fall came his business fell off, and he
discontinued his walks and his melodies.
An Irishman of his acquaintance offered
him 10 cents a day for the privilege OF
keeping and feeding the little beast. The
bargain was made for a month. Great
and at last, unable to restrain himself,
he went ostensibly to see his pet, bot
really to find what possible use Pat could
make of a monkey. The IrishTnan was
frank. ''It is loike this he said, "O1
put up a. pole in me back yard with the
monk on the top. Tin or twelve thraii,s
of cars loaded with coal go by every
evenin. There's thTamps on every car.
Every wan takes heave at the monk.
Devil a wan has hit him. but OF have
seventeen tons of coal. The Argonaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
HEROES OF BLACK MOUNTAIN.

What would the world think of a
war which cost a nation like Germany
100000 men killed or wounded, in the
first week? What would be said of
the United States if it plunged into
a struggle which involved casualties
to $4,000 soldiers in five or six days?
1t is necessary to use such figures
to give a clear understanding of the
price the heroic men of Montenegro
the warrior race that lives in the lit
tie country of the Black Mountain-are
paying in their efforts to drive the
Turks out Of Europe.
Readers see that the losses already
sustained by the Montenegrins are
more than 1000, according to their own
admissions. 1t may be that something
like the Japs nese rule Hide your
wounds has minimized the published
statements of casualties. Certainly
there is every prospect that several
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

peace is joy. Proverbs XII 20.
In her famous tragedy. De Mont
fort, Joanna Baillie. Scotland's great
est poetess, set down these lines
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the
But those who slide along the grassy sod
And sting the luckIess foot that presses
them?
There are who in the path of social life
| Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune s
And sting the soul.
And when Miss Baltic was sketch
| ing such a forceful picture of snakes
of the human variety, she undoubtedly
had in mind, among others, those folk
who are ever imagining evil, and al
most as frequently passing these fruits
of their imagination out to their
friends, not as mere opinions, but as
facts Unfortunately, too. the world
has an over-abundance of such indi-
viduals.
Surely there are legion and legion OF
people who have been grievously
wronged by others who have imagined
evil of them. 1t is so easy to do so.
Even the best of intentions, either ex-
pressed in words or acts, are all sub
when a critic is so disposed. The re-
suit is that fair names have been
dragged in filth and slime through the
mere fancies of others. Good reputa-
tions that have been built up by years
of self-denial and right-living are
shattered as easily as rock is blasted
into bits with a charge of dynamite.
Happy homes without number have
Tn isal
impossible to attempt to calculate or
estimate the wrongs that men and
women have done each other in this
fashion.
As Solomon suggests. in his Prov
heart of those who give play to their
imaginations in this respect. 1t can
be set down for a fact that the man
who imagines evil in others is as de- |
ceitfuI as he is treacherous. Often |
he unthinkingly and unintentionally |
Judges others by himself. But no mat |
ter how he arrives at his conclusions
he does so with the Interior motive of
injuring those against whom they are
directed. He will apply the foulest of
motives to the best-intentioned of acts.
If he let the matter rest there with
himself it would not be so bad. But
he doesn't. He spreads his ideas of
this sort as far and as wide as he can.
They are repeated with additions here
and there until they finally take
form that does their victim a terrible
injustice. And eventually they are
oeddled around as a fact. No way is
surer or more certain to drag any one
Town to the dirty depths where scan
1al is king.
1t is almost impossible to fight back
lgainst such contemplate deceit and
reachery. Indeed. there is only one
way to combat it. And that is to
make 1t impossible by living such a
ife of we'll ordered words and deeds
hat those given to the imagining of
,vil will have to extend such of their
activities in other directions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Money may talk. but it is surely not
the talk that's cheap.
X \ \
Everybody has particularly high
standards for others to follow.
y 4 u
The goal of life is happiness and
few persons know when they reach it.
= x
What has become of the old fash
toned school boy who usually wore a
black eye?
1t is pretty difficult these days for
many people TO make even one end,
of a meal at least, meat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
DAFFYDHS

If cop arrested 20 crooks and
bound them would that tie the score :?
them would that tie the score?
(Give i'm air meniD
Is the Atlantic real or is it only a
notiona
Don't let that fellow get away
He's the boob that put the room in
rheumatism
II turpentine is used in varnish
what is camphor?
(Pass around the nat. boys! Here
comes the cop.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Surely there is no good reason why
every one should not know the exact
location of the bullet in Mr. Roose-
veIt's chest, now that the doctors have
described it so precisely. They fix it
at the lower corner of a right angle
in the triangle. the apex of which is
in the middle of the sternum, per-
join the Aanaias club or gain admis-
the other corner of which is the supra
sternal notch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Thomas w. Lawson told the senate
committee investigating contributions
to campaign funds tina. he knew in a
general way of a plot that had been
developed in Wall street to control
the presidential election. Tom is en-
Saged at present in another literary
crusade against Wall street through
the columns of Everybody's magazine,
and little free advertising helps out
IN matters of this kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Although the fly season is almost a
thing of the past. it is up to Topekans
to get out their swatters again and
go after the beetles that are threat
ening to destroy the beautiful elm
trees in town. Judge Allen has rem
dered the city large public service
in calling attention to the danger
from this pest and pointing out the
way to wage a successful fight against
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
FROM OTHER PENS

| THE NICARAGUAN SITUATION.
The aggressive action of Admiral
Switzerland in storming and captur-
ing Coyotepe, the rebel stronghold.
near Masaya, with his marines and
blue jackets, on Friday last, and the
present movement against Leon, will
doubtless convince the most doubtful
that President Taft was serious in
his purpose when he assumed charge
! or the Ntcaraguan situation, and dis
patched an expedittonary naval force
TO abate the nuisance, which has for
three years directly or Indirectly
caused this government no end of an
noyance and embarrassment. The
tactful and firm manner in which
Admiral Switzerland has managed
this very difficult situation merits the
FULLEST rotation. He has done
naught save that warranted by law
and necessity, supported by the die
tates of humanity and public opinion
and what he has done will work an
immediate and quieting Influence on
those political parasites who have so
Vociferously protested against Amerf-
can interference" in the vain hone
that their plunderfng of an almost
destitute people might be continued
indefinitely. With the exception of
Guatemala in which republic the gov
eminent and people have with graft
tying directness given to the United
states their warmeSt approval of its
attitude, majority of the people of
CenIral America do not yet realize the
unselfish motives that have prompted
President Taft in so sternly Suppress
ing the rebellious movement in Mica
ragua, but they will doubtless come
to sense of appreciation when they
witness, as they soon will, the estab
lishment of clean, strong, self-sus-
tanning government in that unhappv
country.-Washingto Post.
THE OIDFIELD PATENT RTIT
Efforts to get newspapers to ioin in
the campaign against the OId6eId
patent revision law on various grounds
or supposed self-interest are not likely
to be very successful. The Old6e1d ntiI
may not be desirable in its details but ~
aims at a desirable end-the amend
nent of some highly Oppressive Tea
tires q the present patent JegisIatIo,
Such amendment ought to lie effec.el
ana every consumer of goods. large o,-
small VIII find 1t highly to his interest
10 nave the action taken at an earI,,
GATE, while if the work Is rroperIx, do-a
~ WliI De rar from inturing any Iegffl-
mate manufacturing interest The best
way TO defeat unwfse ATTEMPTS at -
eht LEGISLATION is to substitute scund
cessation Tor the correction of narsnr
aouses' This is a lesson that sear,.
10 De as hard for the owners of 49,
enteo articles to learn as II is for tbosa
whc profit by the excessive rater 80 a.
LarlH'-New York Journal of Comnsr.~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

This much is certain. The fight that
the Commercial club intends to make
for the establishment of union depot
in Topeka will be intensely popular
with the people here. And the rail-
roads should be as generous-ninded
with Topeka in this respect as they
have been with other cities. The pro-
blem to be worked out in providing
this city with a union station is not
q difficult one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

ening of its criminal procedure to-
gether with a stricter enforcement of
the criminal laws. The point has been
reached where all sorts of criminals
are accorded rights" which they do
not deserve, and the loopholes through
which they can escape punishment are
altogether too numerous
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Governor Stubs is surely entitled
20 all the medals for diversity in poll
lies. He is an ardent supporter of
Colonel Roosevelt, the presidential
candidate of the Bull Moose party. He
3 running on the Republican ticket for
the United States senate. And not a
few Kansas newspapers are reporting
THAI he is almost outspoken in his bid
for Democratic support for his candi-
dacy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
According to Uncle .Abner.
"A Fable for Borrowers.
Arab went to his neighbors and

said:
Lend me your rope"
IT can't said the neighbor.
why can't yOu?'
Because 1 want to use the rope
myself"
For what purpose % the other per-
sisted.
81 want to tie up five cubic feet
of water with it."
How on earth ~ sneered the would
be borrower, "can you tie up water
with a rope?"
my friend" said the neighbor,
Allah is great and he permits US to
do strange things with a rope when
we don't want to lend it.''-Boston
Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Jack johnson is now accused by a
mother of sequestering her young and
beautiful daughter, a white girl.
Here's hoping that Australia will
prove so attractive to this distinguish
ed gentleman that he takes up a per
Tnanent residence there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Nearly a half-millions dollars in cold
cash was taken in at the eight games
that were played to decide the baseball
championship for this year. That
doesn't make much of a noise like the
people generally in the eastern section
of the country are in the throes of
particularly hard times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Russia has decided to abolish penal
Eervitude in Siberia. But the punish
xnent she will substitute in her penal
colony in European Russia will I'M
doubtedly be just as terrible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
From the New York Press.I

TFrom the New York Press.1
The best way to make excuses is not to.
A millionaire isn't as afraid of burglars
as he is of poor relations
There IS more money in thinking over
investments than in making them.
When a man is too chivalrous to quar-
rel with a. woman it's sign he wouldn't
be if she were his wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Colonel Roosevelt is one of the for
tunate men who has friends indeed
when he needs them Mr.. Frank
Munsey, for instance, has contributed
$11S,0 to his recent campaign funds.
This is even a few thousand more
than was Clipped in by that sterling
patriot, Boss Finn of Pennsylvania.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Wyoming has so small a total popu-
Jation that the scale on which its
pen.tentiary sensations are staged i'm
peaches the character Of the common
wealth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

SAFE AND SANE HALLOWEEN.
Now is the time for all the good
men to come to the aid of the police
and begin to talk about a sane Hal
loween. 1t is drawing near that sea-
son of the year when the small boy
and his adult brother lay plans for
moving the shoemaker's sign to the
front of the millinery store and
scheme to transfer the barber pole T.
the entrance of I. o. o. F. hall So
now is a good time to make prepara-
tons for safe and sane Halloween
Everybody can be in on the planning,
II they desire, excepting the small bow
adult brother and the girls who also
like to do fussy things on the Ias-
night of October. They are barred
Tor fear they will learn the plans OF
their elders and put a crimp in them,
as they would if they had half =
chance. Halloween night is no snap
Tor the policeman, to be a plainclothos
man or regular bobby. 1t is a night
OF telephone calls. that take him from
corner to corner of town. 1t is impos-
sible for him to keep up with the work
or the youngsters and, of all men, tho
policemen is most pleased when tho
night is passed and gone. There are
some sane ordinances for use this
time of the year and it is well to gee
them In action and be prepared tn
take care of the worst that may hap
pen.-Hutchinson News
DEAD HORSES AND TAXES.
Frank U. RusselPs proposition to
cancel the tax on dead horses lost in
the recent plague ought to meet with
the appreciation of every citizen in all
Kansas. Those farmers who suffered
the loss have met with the greatest
misfortune they possibly could meet
up with at just this season of the year.
and besides the most of them are
probably in a bad way financially to
begin with because of bad crops in
the greater area affected in the mast
few years, and this year when their
crops were good and they had a
chance to pay up some of the back
scores they meet with this handicap.
Yes, Kansas ought to be magnani-
NOUS Kansas ought to be glad to
remit this tax. AS Russell says It IS
more pound of flesh now than all
else and Kansas is not ready to be as
exacttng as that. In fact, it's our guess
there isn't man in the whole state
but that would be glad to see the
legislature do this.-Stafford County
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

And now comes the moving pictures
of the games played for the baseball
championship of 1912. BY the time
they have had their run. the spring
training season for next years pen
nant races will be on. Professional
baseball is no longer a mere summer
sport. It is with US always
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
ON THE SPUR
OF THE AOMERT
Our Fourth Party.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

Our Fourth Party.
We expect to get presidential nomi-
nation ourself. The emblem of our party
will be the Mephitis Mephitis, otherwise
Polecat, otherwise Skunque.
In our speech of acceptance we will out
line the following policies:
Abolition of tips to porters in parlor
cars.
Clean roller towels.
Mattresses in country hotels must learn
to talk English instead of Hottentot-
Railroad tables that can be read and
understood by others than college grad
yates.
Abolition of the cat-hop and bob-tailed
flush in poker games.
Open season on straw hats to be ex-
tended to October l.
Fine and Imprisonment for a bartender
who serves cocktail with his thumb in IT.
Clean coats for young gentlemen work
ing at soda fountains.
Equal rights for mel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

To the minds of many, much will
probably be explained by the fact that
John Schrank is a checker enthusiast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Cranks as we'll as thieves and thugs
furnish daily object lessons on the
need of taking away the concealed
deadly weapons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

In the Red Sox, the Bostonians
have a great aggregation of ball play
ers, but not a single member of the
team is g. citizen of Beantown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
How to Be Happy, Though Poor.

Sit on the front porch and watch the
millfonaires go by in their autom obiles-
Go and see the moving pictures of Henry
Tricks billion-dollar lawn party.
II you are hungry, walk by some swell
cafe and get SMELL
Make up your mind that Goldfish is the
best eating in the world and that mush-
give folks dyspepsia and make them mis-
cradle
Go for long walk in the country. If
somebody doesn't run over you, you will
probably have a good time, and such
walk is very healthful.
Take a nickeIs worth of lunch and go
fishing.
hear him tell how he made all his money.
We have tried all of these with great
success and can recommend them.
According to Uncle Abner.
1 don't like cucumbers and I'm glad of
it, for if 1 did like 'em I'd be eatin' 'enn
all the time and L hate the burned things.
Every time see a woman ktss1n pug
dog 1 get more respeck for one that
1t is gradually gettin so the bank pTes1-
dents don't wear celluloid collars and red
neckties like they used to.
There is only one thing more danger
Gus fer gal than marryin' a fe11er and
that is goin' out in one of them cranky
canoes with him.
Since the two conventions got mixed
up bad Grandpa Bibins says he don't
know who he's fer and he don't give a
dang.
Miss Amy Pringle says that every fell
Ter who sends her a love letter written on
typewriter Queers himself forever, so
fur as she Is concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

Garter H. Harrison, mayor of Chi
eago. is exactly right in his conten-
ton that one of the things this coun-
tr5 needs is an overhauling and tight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report of that great news or
gsniZAtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news IS received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
A SATURDAY SERMON.

Deceit is in the heart of them that
imagine evil: but to the counsellors of
peace is joy. Proverbs XII 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19

The hospital bulletins disclose the
Laet that Colonel Roosevelt takes tea
Tor breakfast. Outside of that, he has
SHOWN no signs of weakness.