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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
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says UNCLE CIV

I am not one of those who believe
that the human race is going to the
| bowwows by reason of gang spirit"
1 cannot share. the alarm of those
| estimable people who find in the
| depredations of boy gangs, gangs of
| thieves and outlaw gangs, gangs of
| politicians, college students and other
| undesirable citizens evidence of racial
retrogression.
If it were incumbent upon me to
save the human race-if it needs saw
ing-my first act would be to encour-
age the gang" feeling. At worst
gang spirit is only team work gone
wrong, and at besfit is the finest man
Hesitation of manhood in the world.
with the single exception of. the sense
of universal brotherhood. The imam
who stands by the. gang" be he college
boy. budding thief or bloody bandit,
There is no hope for the man who
won't stand by the gang" although
he call himself reformer, patriot or
saint The one has enough human
sympathy and enough love and trust
for his kind to be true to his obliga-
tions at all cost. The other has neither
the love nor the appreciation of obli-
cation necessary to make him do his
duty And without these there is no
manhood.
Mark well the leader of the gang.
whatever the object of it's activities.
He's always a good deal of man. He
stands h1tcheQ. he QOeSn Sn1rK OD-
legations. He knows what duty means
and neither questions it nor counts the
cost. Though he be black as the clink
ers of hades, he has at least a working
knowledge of the theory of universal
brotherhood, and he applies it after
his own fashion. although that fashion
be sad perversion of the original
principle.
No moral reformer ever accom-
plished anything by attacking the
''gang spirit" The Man of Galilee
spread his doctrines to the ends of the
earth by transmitting that spirit into
a sense of the brotherhood of man.
So as long as any man has the gang
spirit" he is anchored to ideals of
some sort and knows the unwritten
law of fair play. He may be other
wise bad but he has in him that much
good. He is to that extent amenable
to influence andt by the same token is
ready for something better If the right
influence is brought to bear Mean
while there are worse epitaphs on the
headstones of saints and sinners than
s'He stood by his gang. "-(Copyrfgh
1912 by W. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

ticaL Then all in flash the solu-
tlon came-so simple it made her
DIush to think she had overlooked it.
| Two bodies cannot occupy the same
space, not even when the bodies are
ringers, the space a wedding ring.
The only real salvation for William
Harleth, now that women were grown
so bold, was wedding ring, set fast
gel.
Harleth was hidden to dine with her
ne1ore the party. Notwithstanding
It's imminence, Notwithstanding
Ed1th's labors for it, the dinner was
as perfect as a dinner could be. At
the end there were samples of the
delectable plum cake. The response
1T evoked from Harleth was a suffi-
cient reward
Later when the crowd had gathered,
crowd that held the best of all
iighview, it gasped bit to see Edith
In trailing cloth of silver, softened
with illusion and old lace, Jewels
cleaning upon a neck that was sin
ding above hair piled in wavy masses
above a smooth brow. She looked
what she was, a grande- dame. But
underneath the grandeur there was
the same bubbEfng good humor and
sharp, clean-cut speech. Ffnery was
no bar to her special ministrations
when 1t came to serving supper She
made three of the richest men pres
emit wait upon Mrs. Austell under her
own direct supervision. When 1t
came to the plum cake Mrs. AusteIl
exclaimed:
This is not food-nectar, or maybe
ambrosia, ratheri Dear Miss vanmere,
life owes you something for it. feel
you are going to be one of us. Pray
pray tell me, what we shall demand
Tor you when we come to our own
in reward for anything so heavenly
"Oh, nothing" Edith said, laugh
ing softly.
Nothing" Mrs. Austell echoed.
You are unjust to yourself
4 think not-you see have my
reward" Edith answered sauclly,
though her color mounted.
You see, told Billy-Mr. Harleth
1 shouldn't ever make any
more Of this cake until made it for
my husband-and he proposed at
once.'-(Copyrighte 1912, by Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
EVENING CHAT
~ RUTN CANGNRoN.

will remember that my husband and
children would rather. have a pleasant,
immaculate house in the world; therefore,
will try not to do any more house clean
ing than can do and keep we'll and
pleasant. ..-..-.--.
1 will not be influenced in the smallest
degree by the amount of cleaning which
my neighbor does. I. know what my
house needs and what 1 am. capable of
doing; and no feats OF hers shall spur me
to do one whit more.
I will not criticize my neighbours house
cleaning. She knows what is best for her.
This season I will try to do away with
every piece of furniture and every orna-
ment which is not yielding due return in
utility or beauty for the care which 1 have
to give 1t.
When I am looking over our clothes and
putting things away for the summer, 1
will remember that have no right to
keep anything on the vague chance that
1 might possibly need 1T in the distant
future, when there are so many who I'M
doubtedly need it right now. I will try
to make my charity bundle larger than
ever before, and will see that it contains
less junk and more charity.
will not go beyond the limit of my
strength in trying to finish this or that
task at any special time No matter how
.temptinglys near the completion of any
task I may be, win stop when n I .! know
ing that last shelf In the dining room
closet than to finish it and myself, too
L will make some radical changes in
the arrangement of my furniture. There
is nothing in the world so healthful as
change. Even little changes like this help
get US out of the rut and refresh US. I'd
like to go to Europe this spring. can't.
1 can rearrange the living room furniture,
so will.
If possible, will deprive myself of some
other luxury and put few more dollars
this year into buying strength for my
spring cleaning.
I will not eat hurried and insufficient
meals in house-cleaning time because L
want to get back to my cleaning. When
you want an engine to go very fast you
do not cut down its supply of coal.
Z First, last and always, 1 will try to re-
member that my family and do not ex-
list for our house, but that our house is
for us; and holding firmly to the perspec-
tive I will try to go about my house
cleaning this year more sanely, sensibly
and TRANQUILITY than I ever have before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.
IRON the Philadelphia Record.

IRON the fn1laOeIpn1d heCOFOl
The only way to avoid a past is to put
stop to it before it happens.
The dressmaker isn't always in hurry
when she has a train to make.
The surest way to lose an undesirable
acquaintance is to lend him money.
Many a man will be disappointed when
he tries to get into heaven on promls-
sorry note.
When a bunch of women start to gossip
ing. the devil feels that he can afford to
take a nap
Some people lucky that if they
should find themselves in the soup it
would turn into gravy.
The average barber can cut hair in ten
minutes that takes three weeks to grow
into responsibility again.
When the baseball fan tries to enter the
pearly gates it may surprise him to find
that Peter isn't giving out any rain
checks.
The up-to-date girl hasn't much use for
the fellow who would rather sit at home
and hold her hand than take her to the
theater-
You may object to Harold, Papa" she
said, but 1 sure that at least he has
never told lie in his life Il always
knew he was a burned fool and that
proves it, replied the old man.
Breathlessly he rushed into the lawyers
office. My next door neighbor is learn
ing to play the cornet,'' he exclaimed
THE man is a public nuisance. What
would you advise me to dor Learn &c,
play the trombone" replied the astute
lawyer Ten dollars, please
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
CALIFORNIA UP AGAINST 1T.


In her strenuous and voluminous ad-
vertising campaign for settlers of all
sorts, California has evidently bitten
off more than she can chew. Postcards
are now coming from San Francisco
and other points in that state warning
laborers against coming there in search
of employment They state that there
is not nearly enough work for the resi-
dents. And these cards are illustrated
with pictures of actual suffering on the
part of workers of all classes who have
gone there. only to discover that en-
ployment in their lines is far from be-
ing had for the asking
In other words, the possibility of uni
versal prosperity that California has
been holding out to all classes of men
and women who might come thither-
ward has been in the nature OF a dream
on the part of the California boosters.
For the most part they are men who
have land to sell. But in advertising
their land which will grow citrus
fruit, etc, if any one has large capital
to invest and is in a position to wait
a few years for something in the way
of returns, the California real estate
men have pictured their state as a YER
liable mecca where all men could get
rich quick or obtain a good livelihood
in the pursuit or practice of their trades
or professions.
On the strength of these advertise
ments there has been a great rush to
California during the past few years,
and the postal cards mentioned, give
visible evidence that many are sorely
sorry they took their steps in that d.
rection.
California is a great state with
wondrous possibilities in the way of
the development of its agricultural and
horticultural resources. But it is no
more wondrous in this respect than is
Kansas and other states on the way to
the Pacific coast. In Kansas and other
states hereabouts there is always a de-
mand for skilled workers in every trade,
whether or not they have money to in
vest in farm lands or orchards. And
on the other hand, such Investments in
Kansas land will bring a larger proper
tionate return than they will in Cali
fornia. You can grow as good and as
much alfalfa. for instance, on Kan
sas acre that sells at from SIS to 500
as you can on an acre of California land
that is held at $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
Many Animals in Siam.

Siam is prominently the land of
animals, and not a few of those
which pass and repass in the course
of the days work keep the new ar
rival waiting to hear steam calliope
inform the country side that a cir
Gus is in town. There goes the sacred
Indian buffaloi But this time he and
his brother are only going under the
charge of two small boys, down into
the rice paddy behind the temple to
plough. Stripped of all his gay trap
pings, the elephant, no longer a
mere show, goes peacefully, patiently
and intelligently about his herculean
tasks. Two of these splendid animals
carried or dragged all the heavy tim
bers for the boys school which was
recently erected at Nan.
The whole elephant tribe is looked
upon with great veneration by the
Siamese. The elephant is the sym
bolic animal of the county, and
though his ponderous strength is daily
used in his masters service, he is
mans co-laborer, not his beast of bur-
den.
Lucky is that elephant who is born
an albino; for he shall be all his days
a sacred white elephant, scrubbed and
fattened, and pampered, and he shall
do no work at all. Even the baby who
is a little lighter gray than his rela-
tives may attain to greatness.
Only a few months ago one of these
baby elephants that was only light
gray in color, not a true albino, was
Laos to the King at Bangkok. AMI
mails large and small abound in the
jungles and along the waterways.
No trip need be taken without a
plentiful supply of game, for fan"
deer, quail, queen pigeons and peafowl
pense of a little patience and a good
straight shot-The- Christian Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The man who is "well read" has few
original ideas.
X
If you don't think it pays to be
decent in all things try it.
Y y
One of the easiest ways to enter
tain a man is to ask him a question
now and then that will keep him talk
ing.
y =
This is also the season of the year
when girls with sweethearts in the
south get big boxes of withered magno-
liza blossoms.
Why is it that many men and women
never find out that shoes are too small
for them until they have worn them
out of the shoe store?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
HIS HAPPY HOMIE.

She sews the buttons on his shirt
And darns his socks with care.
She never fails to be alert
His every woe to share.
She lays his night clothes on the bed
And turns the covers down.
She never fills his heart with dread
BY suspicious frown.
She gives him what he likes to eat,
And never makes complaint;
And there is never when they meet
A hint of cold restraint,
Her faith in him is deep and great,
She courts his least caress,
When he gets home to dinner late
There is no bitterness.
She never scolds because the folk
Next door have more than they.
On him she pauses to invoke
Gods blessing day by day.
She strives in every way to ease
The burdens of his life;
You may have guessed ere this that She
His mother, not his wife.
Chicago Record-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
HUAOR or THE Day

Does the hero marry the heroine at the
end of all their troubles mo; at the be-
ginning.'-Judge.
Does he know his own failings?' HE
ought to. His wife keeps the hst."-Blr-
ningllagn Age-HeTald.
"Ah, cried the count, calamity as he
bent low before the American beauty, ''I
would I was re glove upon your hand .
you may act in that capacity, count she
replied graciously. ct never wear glove
more than once and then 1 give it to NV
rnaid.''-Harper's Weekly
The Preachers Wife, get nv hus-
bands fees for marrying them. The Law
yer's Wife-And I get my husbands fees
for divorcing them.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the chicago News.I

It's hard lines for the ossified man.
If woman's judgment is bad she trusts
her intuition.
No, Cordelia, the grass widow is any
thing but green.
Most men have yearned to fly or to be
a little fly from the first.
Rut the foundation of the average
mans self-conceit is past finding out.
Many a man is kept busy during his
spare time in explaining things to his
wife.
Perhaps the surest thing in this life Is
the friend you can't depend on when you
really need him.
As soon as a woman discovers that she
is unable to reform her husband she be-
gins on her neighbors.
The man who says he would be willing
to die for a girl during the cOurtship
stunt may after marriage wish he had.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

At the suggestion of DR.. Crumbine
of the state board of health, the city
commissioners are considering the ad-
visibility of adopting an ordinance that
will compel Topekans to keep theii
premises clean and sanitary and there
by prevent flies from having breeding
places in innumerable places about
town. The ordinance should be passed.
AS DR.. Crumbine points out, the most
effective way to battle with the flies
is to swat them before they arrive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
DAFFYDHS
BY u. NoALL.

Is it really correct to say the Joan
of Arc was Maid of Orleans?
Remember what the governor OF
North Carolina said to the governor
of South Carolina and forget it,
Is Bobby Burns bed greater curl
osity than Sir Walters cot?
(Professorii Cut the cards.)
When the winds blow does the earth
quake?
(Nor would you dare insult me, sir.
if lack was only here.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.1

lcIOHi the new IOFk RreSS.l
What makes a man have to smoke Rood
cigars is not to be able to afford them
Being agreeable to people you DOM
care for is about the most disagreeabie
thing.
A woman never entirely Ioses faith in
her husbands brain till she hears MIN
argue politics.
Experience is very useful to a, man TO
it doesn't teach him anything.
A woman away from home can nevar
make out 70 be entirely happy because
mum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

A recount of the votes in the Mas
sachusetts primary shows that Presi-
dent Taft lost fully 10 per cent of the
ballots undoubtedly intended for his
delegates-at-large through error on the
part of the voters in marking their bal
lots. A primary that is so intricate
that the voters are unable to express
their will is worse than no primary at
oil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

against him in his own state? Governor
Harmon is one of the candidates for
the Democratic presidential nominal
ton who hasn't obtained a single dele
gate as yet. Mr.. Harmon would need
IL times as many delegates to land the
nomination on the first ballot than he
can get in his home state if he gets
all of those
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

Was Fred Stanley within the whole
truth when he insisted in his speech
as temporary chairman of the Kansas
Republican state convention that the
Democrats We're especially gifted as
''knockers?" Any party would have to
go some to have more knockers" than
those possessed by the Republican
party of today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

when you hear me squeal because
I'm being hit then you'll notice it, was
the comment Of Colonel Roosevelt on
President Taft's assertion that he was
being "hit below the belt" AS a mat
ter Of fact, though, hasn't the colonel
been squealing good and loud at the
many blows that have reached his
vulnerable parts?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

These stories that Colonel Roosevelt
will bolt his party and head an indie
pendent ticket if he fails to win at
Chicago are exceedingly reasonable in
view of his previous emphatic an
nouncement that he would abide by the
decision of the Republican national
convention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

There will be no General Grants in
the Methodist church from now on.
Its quadrennial conference has decided
to prohibit the election to any kind of
an citizenship in the conference of any
man who uses tobacco in any form.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

From the experience he is certain to
get as a member of the Republican
national committee, William Allen
White should have no trouble in writ
ing a novel entitled "a Certain Poor
Pnlificiar >,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

Likewise, out in the progressive state
OF Washington Professor Wilson OBJ
tanned only a few crumbs from the
pickings of Champ Clark's houn' dawg.
There will assuredly have to be a re-
vision of the famous Missouri song. No
one seems to be disposed nowadays to
kick that houn' around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

That the Rev. Mr.. Rfcheson was once
a Mormon is characterized as a lie by
his attorney. But this attorney will
surely have to admit that his client
conducted himself as one in the plur-
atty of his love affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

In likening Mr.. Roosevelt to Wash
ington in his speech as permanent
chairman of the Republican state con-
vention, Governor Stubs over looked
the fact Washington established
the precedent against any man holding
a. third presidential term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

Surely nothing but good can come of
the proposal of the Topeka Industrial
council that there be a full and free
discussion in the nature of a debate
on the proposition of the state print
ing the textbooks for the public schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

Unless Mr.. Bryan thinks that Cover
nor Harmon is likely to be the COM
promise candidate that the Democratic
national convention viii choose, why
In he carrying on 3 vigorous campaign
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
VictOry.

If President Taft were just one-tenth
as black as Colonel Roosevelt endeavors
to paint him, congress would have in
stituted impeachment proceedings
against him long ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

Colonel Roosevelt seems to have won
out in Maryland by the narrow MAORI
ty of so votes. And this is styled by
his friends as another convincing
victory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
ny THE WY
BIT HARVEY PARSONS.

The recent ruling of a church con-
ference that no tobacco user can hold
a job in that church, will result in a
lot OF cellar fumigation.
The Stubs machine seems. to be a
1912 model of high power, but some
doubt has been expressed about its
seating capacity. So many eager patrl-
OTIS want to ride in on it, that they
| The other day a Topeka child was
sent to the reform school, because it's
father was living, and the kiddo was
therefore ineligible to the orphans home.
officers at the state pen, where SAID
remove this disability at the first OPP
portunity.
The good ship sTeddyanic is making
a new speed record, but lookout VITA
a glass eye could see the icebergs dead
ahead and off either bow, and it is
well known fact that it's lifeboat equip
ment is insufficient to transport all the
passengers to the Taftathia when the
crash comes.
Under the classification of wasted
effort" might be listed the biennial
attempt to beat Jim Dahlman out OF
the job of maYor of Omaha
If there was some fishing place where
there is no mud, good shade and
plenty of fish. we would go fishing.
But the only place in Kansas that an
swers the description is in Prof Dyche's
fish car, and. he hasn't invited US.
The Prof is rather touchy about his
old fish, anyway. He says that grab
bling them out of the tank with hook
and line annoys- the fish, and causes
them to lose sleep.
A local Ike Walton spent one day
in pisca torial pursuit and returned with
the story that he reached home with
% fish. And it was no fish story; we
have reliable information that he DID
have % fish, and that % of them were
smoked herrings and the other a hall
but.
If every cloud really had a silver
lining, there would be plenty of knock
ers to holler because it wasn't gold.
A man who agrees with Roosevelt
on every question has been discovered.
He was a Sicilian applicant for citizen
ship papers, and when asked who was
mayor, governor, president and dog
catcher, he replied that Roosevelt was
the whole SiciHan Cheese.
Golden text for today: Swat the dam
delion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The appeal of the woman's suffrage
workers in Kansas for funds to carry
on their fight should not fall on deaf
ears. Theirs is the worthiest of causes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

The recent ruling of a church con-
ference that no tobacco user can hold
a job in thar church. will result in
lot OF cellar fumigatfon.-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-10

The Stubs machine seems to be a
1912 model of high power, but some
doubt has been expressed about its
seating capacity. So many eager patrl-
OTIS want to ride in on it," that they
may have to put on top deck.