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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
POINTED
from the Chicago News.

49, VS.
NO man who is broad minded
thinks he's the whole show.
A citizen is seldom what he thinks
his neighbor ought to be.
Actions speak louder than words to
the deaf and dumb man. a-
The fellow with a good job seldom
has a retiring disposition.
He also has his troubles who is
forced to listen to other peoples.
A man has to do a lot of kicking
for the little he wants here below.
During courtship a man boasts of
his income, but after marriage he
growls about the outgo.
Many a woman doesn't insist upon
her husbands accompanying her. to
church because he SHORES in his sleep.
A bachelor always wants to have
things his own way-and so does a
married man, but he realizes that he's
up against it.
Many a young man flatters himself
that he holds the key to a girls
heart, only to discover when too late
that some other chap has picked the
lock.
During one of his sermons an Ohio
preacher said, Some people have no
as though he imagined
he had made a new and wonderful
discovery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
e PARKS.

With an park for the
East side assured, IS natur-
ally directed to what is being done in
the way of developing the other
parks of which the city is possessed.
And Just a cursory survey is all that
is needed to show that within the
last year or so they have been lifted
ont of the doldrums where most of
them had been becalmed for many
years.
1t won't be long now before Gage
mark is the home of something re
spectacle in the way of a zoo. INSIDE
of two weeks at the latest, the long
looked for alligators and a company
of monkeys will join the buffaloes'
the deer herd and the other animals
which are helping to make this park
a more interesting place for the
young and the old to visit. A a
line to that park will max 1T a great
pleasure ground for the whole people
Of the city, and hat car line is sure
to come, sooner or later.
But Gage park is not the only park
that has been improved. Garfield
park and the City park near the MeIan
bridge have been turned into much
needed amusement centers. Tne
transformation at Garfield and the
City park have been little else than
wonderful. That the changes are ap-
preciated by the people is show by
the large number of them that are
visiting these parks on pleasant after
moons, evenings and holidays. Hun
dreds, yes thousands are now going
to these parks where tens and dozens
used to go in late years. Both these
parks are now we'll lighted at night
and are ideal breathing and resting
places for the many people VINO get
kind of enjoyment out or PARKS
and who may not be interested at all
in the amusement features that have
been installed.
And these amusements will turn
enough money into the city to pay for
all the improvements that have been
made in these parks, and then some.
The proprietors of these concessions
are under contract with the city to
paw over to it ten cents on every dol
ar they take in. This will add a good
-ound sum to the park fund. Not
)nIy that but in their contracts with
he city the amusement promoters
agree not to charge more than five
cents for each ride on the merry-go-
,ounds, roller coasters, ETC., or for ad-
to any of the special amuse-
nent places. That puts these mus
tents within the reach of h hum
,lest pocketbooks, and. makes these
PARKS amusement places for all the
None of the other and smaller
,arks in the city are being neglected
n the work that is necessary to en-
their attract1veness as beauty
In fact, the park system of
has finally struck h gait it
have been travelling this long
While. AS city commissioner in
barge of the parks, Eugene B. Stotts
to be delivering the goods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
RACE SUICIDE IN FRANCE

Official statistics just made public
In france show that the deaths in
that country last year outnumbered
the births by 34,569. Such French
records are very accurate, and 1t may
De counted a certainty that If France
mad neither sent out emigrants nor
received immigrants last year one of
the n and most productive coun-
tries in the world would have lost
population.
As a matter of fact. there was a
small gain. Not many Frenchmen
emigrate and their loss is more than
made good by the inflow of Swiss,
and Italians, with a few Ger
mans and Spaniards. The immigration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
QUAKER

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Most things are all right as far as
they go, even decollete gowns.
Talent is sometimes mistaken for
genius, but only by its owner.
A new leaf is reaIly just the same
Ut one, with just another turn.
Don't cross your bridge till you
come to it, and maybe it won't be
there.
Liquor will improve with age, but
the trouble is the average man won't
let it.
If it wasn't for the cynic a man
would never realize how happy he
isn't.
Make hay while the sun shines
and you won't have to borrow an UNI
brella when it rains.
This hat is a poem,' rhapsodized
the saleswoman. 81 wish nv hus-
band could write that kind signed
the poets wife.
Hoax-"Why do you always call
young Sillicus One degree above
zero? " Joax-'Oh, he's next to
nothing"
Blobbs-"Do you think that Boston
girl has ever met her affinity ?'
Slobbs-"Well, she says last winter
she pumped right into a snow man
the kids had built on the sidewalk"
Mrs. Muggins-'I had a terrible
last night. I dreamed my hus-
band was dead Mrs. Buggins-"Oh,
l often dream that" Mrs. Muggins@
but 1 dreamed he had allowed
his life insurance to lapse"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03

from Italy and Belgium, especially, is
of considerable volume and it Keeps
the population of France slowly in
creasing.
But no nation likes to depend upon
foreigners for all of it's growth. No
people with a great history and a rich
and beautiful country to possess and
develop can be happy in realizing that
without gains from outside its own
borders it's numerical strength would
diminish instead of increase.
And in France there is a special
reason for unrest in the face of vital
statistics which show that the French
people do not hold the balance ever
level between life and death. Ger
many gains swiftly in population as
well as in every other vital lement of
strength. In the British Isles there is
solid and steady expansion in popula-
ton and the power which such
growth implies. Italy increases, not
withstanding a very heavy emigration.
Only France stands still.
This means a constant loss of rela-
tive strength. It means that year af-
ter year France has fewer men, in
to those at the service or
possible foes. 1t makes the pos
of a great war increasingly
menacing to the life of the French
That is why the agitation against
suicide' is as constant in France
as it is futile. The fact that the ma
tive French population does not grow
Is a threat of future disaster in battle.
1t is impossible for an intelligent
Frenchman to consider the outlook
his country without deep concern.
The remedy no one has yet been
able to discover and make effective.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
FROM OTHER PENS
AN OLD swINDLING TRICK

AN OAO - Il TRICK
There can be little sympathy for the
a from California who last Saturday
allowed himself to be drawn into a fa-'
milfar form of swindle in this CITY and
robbed of a large sum of money in the
form of travellers checks, in addition t.
valuable tewelry. Anyone who bets with
a stranger in a large city is taking n
long chance and can have no good
ground for complaint If he loses. The
game In this instance is one that has
been worked a humble. of times and
fully exploited. The swindIers travel in
pairs ana appear to be strangers, but
they play their parts skillfuIIy and i'm
pose upon the credulity of the unwarv
Ihelr game k now one form and
now another. Usually II is similar 4,
that which was worked Saturday. WITH
penny matching as the Immediate
means OF working the victim. When II
is over the trick seems so t-ransparent
tfat 1T is a marvel that IL couId foo1
any adult. And yet over and over
again, these ingenious rascaIs deceive
the gullible. Probably they move from
CITY 70 city SO that their faces will not
become too familiar to the police
Tnere have been numerous cases mr.
TINS one IN the past three or four wears
and all have been widely exploited 60
tnat as far as Westinghouse are con
cerned there is no reason whatever for
anyone who could read. beinO fooiad
1t would seem that other cities 49,
had the same experience and n is re-
to find so manv who ana
ny victimized. Yet such old games n.
the selling of fake gold bricks ara
green goods are still worked. aIthor,eL
tney nave been exposed hundreds Of
tunes throughout the ountr To 49,
upon cupidity, to appeal to the IeA
impulse, to offer diversion to ~.
ioWly these are the eIeneno
tsry FACTORS in all such swfndIes pn--
at the next meeting of the r.
Iernatlonal Association OF Police ChieS9
view of rounding up the fIeecers
ne clever plain-clothes work in the L.
cities ought to result in brin1ta.
INTO the tolls some of the penny mafcb
rs INC tricksters who follow this lin
= NINA ihdustry-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The quickest way to get a line on the
size of a man isn't to take his meas
ure in inches-look first at the size Of
the job he tackles. When all is said
and done, men are as big as the things
to which the devote their attention.
Psychologists have laid down a law
upon this subject, and if you are in
terested push you way into the first
knowledge factory and ask the pur-
veyor of mental science to explain. But
for our immediate purpose it is suffi-
cient to know that the principal Diff
ference between men and horses, is
that, while there are limitations to the
pulling power of the latter, the man al
ways becomes big enough to handle
any task that he pegs away at if he
keeps pegging away long enough and
cheerfully enough. Persistence and
vision clarifying good cheer are all
that the ordinary brain needs to be-
come the habitation of genius. The
gulf between mediocres IN men Of
mighty deeds Is fnarked, not by Their
brains, but by their courage. He who
has the grit to m~anhandIe the heart
breaking task develops the sinews and
iconvolutions meet for the Job.
There is nothing essentially more
difficut in building steamships, loco
motives and aeroplanes hi i'll
making musical tops. The reason that
more men are capable of creating TOYS
than are able to achieve epoch-making
inventions is that there is seemingly
nothing prodigious about toys. It's a
matter of bluff and buck ague. The
seemingly three thousand barriers
to progress represented by imminent
problems simply "have got
US scared We haven't the confidence
to tackle them and hang on until soma-
thing breaks and the light sifIs
through.-(Copyright, 1912, by W e.
Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH

A certain young woman who had
been given a chance to make good in
a very big position, lost this chance re-
Gently.
And the reason, as expressed by her
employers, who. by the way, were quite
as disappointed as she, was simply
that she didn't know how to receive
criticism.
Whenever her employers criticised
her, she always fought back. Instead
of being grateful to them for giving
time and energy to try to make her a
successful business woman, she was
angry and resentfuI al every criticism.
Instead of profiting by their sugges-
ions and corrections, she always tried
to justify herself.
Z Now to try to vindicate ones self
when one knows that criticism is I'M
deniably unjust. is right and
able, but always to fight to justify ones
self. no matter what the criticism, is
decidedly the opposite.
And yet there are a great many en-
this latter course. Even when they
know in their hearts that they have
made mistakes. they try to prove
otherwise to those who criticise them.
OF course it is not at all easy to tell
when a criticism is just. To be able
to weigh a criticism of ones self calm
1y and di~spassionately. and see where
1t is right and where it is wrong. is a
fine art. Even a most upright Judge
finds it most difficult to decide a case
fairly when his own interests are in
volved. But one can at least make
some effort to do this.
Mistakes make the greatest founda-
lions in the world for success. But
they should not be used for anything
except the foundation. Once you try
to incorporate them into the building
itself. you make sure to build a failure
which will come crumbling down
about your ears sooner or later. Will
you then argue and contest with the
master builder who helps you to recog-i
nize these mistakes? VIII you try 10
him and incorporate some of
them in the building in spite Of
him.. Or will you listen to him
calmly and ~thoughtfully, and thank |
him for his help?
According to which course you take,
you will prove yourself a big or little
man..
For it is only the little people whs
cannot endure criticism. Sir Walter
in his journal mentions an an
anonymous letter sent to him from
Italy full as acid and acute criticism
or his Life of Bonaparte," and in
of ~resenting and justifying him
self, he remarks with consummate re-
straint and wisdom. TITS tone is de-
,idedly hostile. But that shall not pre-
vent me from making use of all it's
were just" If Scott had
a lesser man he would have
at the criticism, and concluded
hat the anonymous writer was mere
y some disagreeable ignoramous.
Again, Epictetus after hearing a
criticism of himself, COM
nents gently. He little knew my
or he would not have
mentioned these alone"
What a splendid watchword that
would make for those of us who are
to be %resentful of all criticism
q remember when We open our mouths
G Justify ourselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
THE BABY.

Jus a dinpled little hand,
But what strenth it has to Lead;
Just a baby's true, blue eyes,
Where no worldly knowledge lies,
But what strength they have to plead.
Just an eager little smile,
But what courage it imparts;
Just a happy little COO,
But how sweetly soothing to
All the bruises and the smarts.
Just a little one to love.
Just a little life to guard:
But how strong to Danish fear
And to comfort and to cheer
Where the ways are steep and hard.
-Chicago-Record Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03

compromise on the part of the states
authorities. This time it is the suit
that was brought against the Kansas
Natural Gas company when it at
tempted to boos the price of gas. In
the original action the state demanded
fines against the company a~ggregating
$4,000 The settlement has been
made on the basis of the company
paying a fine of $1,000, n what
seems to be a most essential element
in the compromise of such suits an
attorney fee of $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03

An elaborate investigation has been
started on it's way by the Merchants
association of New York to ascertain
just why the price of hard coal has
continued to increase for the past few
years, and especially why a recent in
crease has been made of 25 cents a
ton on the plea hat it is necessary
to make up the 5 per cent increase in
wages that has been granted to the
anthracite miners. This has the ear
marks of being a case of misdirected
energy. The price of coal has been in
creased because the men controlling
the supply have 50 desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A secret that must be kept is never
told by its possessor.
1t is possible to regain all things
that are lost except minutes
u y
Photographs are seldom sat1sfac-
tory If they are perfect likenesses.
= X X
AS a general thing the people who
don't take vacation trips can't afford
to.
Many an amateur gardener is hard
put to it nowadays to provide his
friends with the fine vegetables he
promised them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03

That back to the farm" slogan will
probably not be SO popular with the
people who are DESTROYS Of making an
easier and better living since they have
been informed in the newspapers of
an italian grinder who has been
able to save $50,0eO during the fifty
years he has been trundling his music
maker around America, Canada and
England. When he worked his income
was less than 81 a day and
sometimes as much as $40.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
Congressman Cantain

Congressman Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson still continues to ha-
angue on the necessity for this coun-
try having a naval force that will
control the seas absolutely. He ar
cues that with this country possessing
such g. navy war would henceforth be
out of the question. But he seems to
overlook the important fact that the
building and maintaining of such a
tremendous navy would place an addi-
.ional financial burden on the people
Of this land that they probably would
be unable to bear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NOALL.

If a sailor won first prize in a
shooting contest what would the tar
get?
(Officer! Call a cop.)
If a fellow kissed a girl in a row.
boat would you call it a fishing
mack?
(Shinny on your own side, Harold
If a full grown man weighs $50
pounds how do you figure a skeleton?
(Where, oh where has hat houn'
dawg gone?)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
HUNOR or THE Dry

I'm afraid we might run into a.,
oerg; The danger is verv sitIS
aunue- Wen, give the captain a doias
anyhow, and then he'll be extra csrsTn1s
LOUISVILLE Courier-Journal.
Not Used to It.-Theater Manazar v
are engaged for the box onice. Ar 1o,
viii have to do is to receive mo1a1
Thanks 1 think 1 should like 20 hnSy.
ter. oiaet-
You have tried to fashion a eovern-a,.
on the lines of the American RenubIIcs ~
yes replied the Chinese philoso1hc-
but UP to the present time we hsyerfs
been able to get much beyond the Fo,S-.S
OF July accidents. "-Washington Star
Mrs. Struckit Rich-Our waiter 9.
student. He is working his way fhronos
college. Mr.. Struckit Rich-You DOM tsii
me- Well. IL the colleges would ONLY t,srn
out a few more good waters Td hsvH
more respect for them seats OF Iearnfn@U
Puck.
A Minus Quantity.-Editor-I urf~h.a
you'd asked the distinguished visitor 49,,
our street car Impressed hin,
ReporterI did, sir, and he replied fbst
ne naon seen any manners on our street
Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
From the New york Press.l

[From the New York Press.1
The politest conversation is listening to
the other fellows.
The reason people go visiting is they
wouldn't if they were welcome.
There's no way to be a bigger nuisance
than always to be consistent.
1t looks as if the greatest fun miIlioo
aires get out of 1t is the things they can
do to those who aren't.
A woman would rather her husband
came home to dinner on time than stay
Gown town late to be elected president of
a trust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03

During the month of May permits
were issued for the erection of 40
dwellings in Topeka, at an aggregate
cost of more than $4,000. Nothing
could speak palmer of the substantial
growth that IS being enjoyed by the
capital city of Kansas. And there are
reasons. Not only is it the prettiest
inland city in America but there are
excellent opportunities here for work
ers in every field of human endeayor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03

Physicians, or some of the more
prominent ones, are out withsa declar-
alton that eating candy is only harm
full when it happens to be adulterated.
Maybe this is merely a bow to the
inevitable. During the many years
that physicians generally protested
against candy eating, there has been
a continual increase in the
ton Of all kinds of confectionery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03

A ten-million-year-old skeleton of a
reptile, now called an ophiacodon, has
just been mounted a. the University
Of Chicago. Had it been more aged,
the professors there would probably
have said So. Nc one has ever accused
he professors at this institution of be-
ing afflicted with modesty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03

Preliminary estimates are that from
$4,000 to $4,000 men from outside the
state will be needed to harvest the
Kansas wheat crop which some folk
not so long ago were insisting WOULD
be an almost total failure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
KANSAS COMMEMT
PROTEIN AND CHEESE

The high cost of living evidently
passed by one thing in it's general ad-
vance in value of the things We must
have. And that one thing is cheese.
II is said that 1t is yet possible to buy
cheese with the money you may hap
pen to have on you without securing Il
loan from the tanker person. Recently
the national government has issued a
bulletin which gives cheese a kt
OF credit and tells the thrifty
housewives how to make things out OF
this succuient food that will make
you sit up and take notice. Especially
VIII it make O do this late in
the night after a bounteous repast If
the FOOD prepared, a la
bulletin. The fatherly has
gone ven farther and dissected a
cheese, searching it for what II con-
talns. And in the search it is revealed
tEac cheese contains a lot of fancy, up-
grade protein. And this bulletin tells
aom proIeln, II taken in moderate
ooses will knock the high cost Of Nv
ing sky-high. Protein occurs also q,
alfalfa and red cabbage in generous,
quantities. A man can eat raw alfalfa
just as it stands in the field. ana GET
enough protein in his system 10 make
him valuabl as a horrible eramn1o
IT an agricultural college lecture AT the
farmers institute. Here Is v-hara
cIeese is to get in the same class with
aIIaI1a. 1t is to furnish large supplIas
oAO lie latter Will do the
rest. The governments bulletin fails
u say If limburger is included in the
lLst or cheeses recommended for hn-
man consumption. 1t is hardly believed
IL could be compared in strength, with
OF course. the Ia ffer Ne
made a long time ago and has 1-ov-a
10 a ripe old age, taking on more ana
more strength each succeeding vear-
Hutchinson News.
EDITORS NEED ADVICE TOO
A great many newspapers in Kan
sas are urging the appointment Of q
nigh brow to go around and Instruct
the FARMER in farming. 1t is q splendid
1oea' ana this paper is for the scheme
Dut the armer are not the only
acorns on the tree, and if the state is
going to help them out, as II should
tnen there are others to claim the same
privileges. This paper speaks right ont
now Tor an expert to teach the editor
now 10 run his paper. 1t is the same
with newspapers as the faruars.
every fellow around the tow LnoyS.
better how to manage a newspaper than
does the man who edits it. And while
1t may be necessary to get a real in
structor FOR the farmer, Just any old
uuo Will 90 TO send around to instruct
the editor. Both editor and farmer
nave FOR many years felt their lfmita-
lions ana shortcomings in his mai
ter or running their own business AL
though modesty has prevented them
from asking any aid from the state OF
government This paper hopes ano
trusts that 1t will not be long until
every farmer will have his adviser
at hand every morning to show
him how to feed the shoats, and milk
the COWS and poster around with the
chickens, although the editor win man
can have the expert come in along
the end Of the week and tel
MIN how he can pull off the payroll
stunt.-Lawrence Gazette.