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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON,

Prepare to live by all means, but
for Heavens sake do not forget to
ive.'-Arnold Bennett.
Once upon "a time 1 was driven
splendid motor car. All along the way
were lovely roadside flowers which 1
longed to geather, and wonderful vistas
that wanted to have time to fix upon
that inward eye" But my hostesses
were not the kind of people to stop
and gather roadside flowers or look
long at beautiful vistas. They were
''get there" people, and so we whirled
along to the journeys end, and when
we reached it they heaved signs OF
content as if at last they were happy.
All of which seemed very strange to
me, for theoretically we had come for
the pleasure of the journey.
Once again I travelled that same
road, this time in an unpretentlous
conveyance drawn by an unpretentious
steed. And because this time my host
and hostess were the kind Of people
who knew how to enjoy a journey ana
not keep their minds only on the jour
ney's end, We stopped and gathered
flowers, and drank at a little brook
and passed the time of day with some
fellow travellers, and invited our souls
before the wonderful vistas that I had
only glimpsed before.
Now which journey do you think l
enjoyed the most?
Which would you nave enjoyed most
Do you belong to the get there"
folk or to those who think that every
moment of the journey should be en-
joyed?
And don't mean only as regards
actual travelling, but as regards HE
itself.
A young girl who had embroidered a
beautiful center piece for her mother
was complaining because her mother
never used the gift. IT'S just like all
the lovely things mother has" she
lamented, "she just puts them away to
use sometime. 1 want her to use them
now"
There are many men and women
like that mother who are always saw
ing their blessings for sometime. Some
time they will use their beautiful
things; sometime they will take time
to enjoy their children; sometime they
will take advantage of all the oppor-
tunities for education and enjoyment
that surround them; sometime they
will be happy.
Ali my friends, there is no time
for happiness half so good as now.
Don't dream of a some day when you
can be happy, but be happy right
now
you will never have better chance
for happiness says a great essay1st,
than you have at present. You may
think you will have, but you are mis-
taken"
So get out and gather flowers along
the roadside. Only so will you get
the most out of the journey of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14

evidently well dressed in spite of the
mud that he had accumulated since
his fall.
IT am sorry that can not send for
shyly. "I hope you are not suffering
much pain
THANK you-a little twinge now
and then" He WINGED as he spoke.
You wouldn't have to go far to find
a doctor tonight-Pm DR.. Milbank,
miles!'
"Oh! I've heard of you." murmured
Nancy.
He nodded. ST was on my way to
and had to leave my horse back
here in the woods and walk. I fell
over a root and am quite sure I've
broken my leg. When your men get
around I believe 1 can direct them
how-to-set-it." And with the last
words he drowsed off to sleep.
He slept until the gray dawn
pierced the curtained windows with a
wan light. Timothy Finn and his
wife crept home, shamefaced and PEN
ding with alacrity. DR.. Milbank
awoke to a blazing fire and such
rough medical assistance as the girl
and her servants could render.
DR.. Milbank remained at the bunga-
low for several weeks as the guest of
the Meads, and when he went away,
cured, it was with the image of Nancy
Mead enshrined in his heart.
Nancy had quite lost her timidity
of the forest at night.
81 can never be afraid of 1t again
nor imagine it filled with horrors"
she sometimes says, for you know 1
found my husband there!"
And Timothy Finn and his wife
take half the credit for this romance
to Copyrighted, 1912,
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

One is always sure he knows exactly
what he wants when he doesn't get 1t.
You may be acquitted on technicality,
but it is hard to hold job that way.
You may not have much of a memory,
but can you forget what you want forgot
ten?
To a man who has invested in a new
rain coat, it seems that we have lot OIL
dry weather.
1t is pedestrians theory that no man
should be allowed to feel lonesome in an
automobile.
This being a practical world, a modern
bungalow is more to be desired than a
ruined castle.
1t is hard to distinguish a mans preju-
dices from his judgment, although the, Z
may be a difference.
1t frequently happens that the candidate
who gets in the race at the earnest solicit
tation of friends will lie about other mat
tiers.
A large amount of the visible supply OF
enthusiasm is cornered by Young Things
who haven't much of an idea what to 40
with it.
Women are sometimes vain but it is our
notion that a young colored man gets the
worlds greatest satisfaction out of good
clothes.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia RECORD

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Even when he diets the conductor does
not change his fare.
It's a poor shoemaker who cannot keep
body and sole together.
1t is some consolation for the bald head
ed man to know that he is coming out
on top.
Appearances are deceitful. The man
who wears a diamond pin may really be
wealthy.
Beer makes most men fat; yet at Inc
same time 1t makes them lean-against
the lamp post.
Hook-'Gotrox is living like a lord
Nye-Hardly like a lord-he sometimes
pays his bills
Nell-"The women in the Fiji ISLANDS
don't wear any clothes Belle-'fGracious:
1 wonder what they have to talk about"
THE wind is tempered to the shoTn
lamb" Quoth the Wise Guy. Not in the
stock market observed the Simple Mu<-
Smith-"Here's an article in the paper
about man who made a fortune raising
frogs" Jones-tYes. but you should re-
member this is a leap year."
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Court in Kentucky.

Judge Blueclay-"S convene
the cot Where is the jury" Sher-
iff-"Back in the jailyard, your
honah. We happened to get three
Trenches and a couple of Eversoles
on it, an they're fightin' it out, if it
please the cot" Judge-'Where is
the prisoner in this demonstrating
case 2" Sheriff-"The Barnard boys
got him out last evenin' while I was
at supper and hanged him. Judge
Strike off the case, Mr.. Clerk. Are
the parties to the Salt lick Road case
ready to proceed?" Sheriff-"It was
settled early this morning; they're
getting the defendant ready for burial
now" Judge-"Well, then if the dis
trict attorney is ready, we will pro-
coed with the state versus Hiram
Garrard." Sheriff-'1f it please the
cot, the district attorney is not ready.
Garrard's counsel carved him with
bowie knife right after breakfast"
Judge wearily)-tAdjourn the cot"
Brooklyn Eagle.
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ny THE WAY
aY HARVEY PARsolGR

1t has been asserted by horticultur-
al and bugologfcal experts that the
chestnut is on the Fritz;
BUT THERE ARE
OTHER NUTS
You may judge for yourself. Here
another of those friends we never
met He takes his trusty typewriter
III hand, or by the neck, to arbitrate
and the Mysterious Guy. He says IN
part, also in verse, Git might be
worse):
The case of Ponce against the Guy.
My judgment is that Ponce has
won, in daffy-dilly style, has the Mys-
ferrous Guy outdone and beaten by a
mile. His latest effort shows that
Ponce is ''daffy'' by all odds. and dill
by rods. Take it from me, On bug
house road Sir Ponce is in the lead;
in hurting nonsense DER the plate ne
has both curves and speed. We lack
the mind to write such things, but
we know the wheat from chaff:- If
Guy and Ponce will write some more,
we'n say, it is to laugh.-Uncle Bill.
Ponce and the Mysterious Guy will
please come through. The myster-
ious judge says it is to laugh. I'm
doubtedly he is right in that part of
his decision.
Any possible purchaser of the To-
peka franchise should remember that
truth first discovered by the late
Hon. Omar Khayyam-towit: A bot
tie is not worn out just because II is
empty.
And there is something about the
name of that last New York gun man
Mr.. Schepp-which leads us to sus-
pect that he was sad dog.
Observing, by the morning paper,
that the North Topeka gent shot
himself from Saturday night into
Sunday night, we are constrained to
give up the belt. We cheerfully admit,
that. although some gun shark, we
never made a shot like that.
Dodd CASTOR favors drastic meth
DDS. He thinks it might be expedient
to chase the umpire over the centre
field fence and thence 80 or 40 miles
due east. We, being conservative,
hold that 10 miles is far enough to
chase any umpire.
Hon. CASTOR, is all to the proper. He
would be headed for Kansassitty
where they have so DANCED many
strong-arms and porchclimbers that
one more would not make any par
ticular difference. By all means.
chase him over the centrefield fence.
The emperor of Japan quit breath
ing on July 80. Strongly suspecting
that the emp. is dead, his subjects
are going to plant him this afternoon.
This is tomorrow afternoon over
there Figure it out for yourself.
This afternoon they bury him tomor-
row afternoon. $685.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the chicago News.J

LFrom the Chicago News.1
And the lack of charity frequently be-
gins at home.
Wit is a fine sauce but very unsatisfac-
tory steak.
It's never too late to break your nus
band of bad habit.
A woman always means what she says
when she doesn't say it,
Manv a man is unable to climb up D.
cause he is on the level.
1t is practice rather than theory that
makes a satisfactory lover.
By remembering her birthdays woman
is able to forget her age.
Lots of women would be glad II they
could send their hair to the laundry.
Many a mans good judgment crops out
wnen ne declines to trust his own.
Some men are foolish enough to believe
it possible to get 10 cent cigar Tor
nickel.
Thre are probably no fish in the sea as
large as those reported by anglers to have
got away.
Some people cast their bread upon the
waters only when they are sure 1t VIII
be mentioned in the papers.
A girl may not mind being kissed
against her will the first time, but II
makes her fussy If man doesn't pretend
fa rf1a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
THE CosNtIC MOTHER.

I am the pregnant quake and stress
That shape new worlds from films of fire
1 am the springs that upward press
Through rocky lodges to expire
In mists, whose life, in turn, doth pass
Into life-gtving herbs and grass.
am the inefable throb and smart
That form the babe beneath the heart
That feed the child upon the breast
And urge the youth to go his way
From rosy east to golden west
Mid broader views of night and day.
1 am the brooding underthought
That bids all thinking bring forth fruit
The hope that will not come to naught
But, fearless, treads the wreck-strewn
route
Making mans foes of time and space
Shring meath the glory on its face.
am the faith that shall not wane
Mid any gloom of grief or PAIN
That Ger the lids of dying eyes
Breathes wordless anthems of release,
And in the murk of starless skies
Makes silence but the song of Peace!
William Struthers, In Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
NEwsPAPER ETHICs.

The first national newspaper confer
ence is in session at Madison, Wis. The
subject of ethical standards is receiv-
ing at this conference that due propor-
ton of attention to which it is plainly
entitled. 1t will not do to excuse dis
regard of ethical rules in any profess
sion by challenging the ethical ideals
of the public. BY so doing a newspa-
per challenges both the moral percep-
ton and the intelligence of its own
clientele. The moral standard of a
newspaper determines it's character
and mission. If it seeks the public
welfare in the best sense, it will not
enter the homes of its readers heavily
laden with columns of infamy and
filth. 1t is not a valid excuse for low
Journalistic standards that the public
demands salacious reading. No more
is 1t pardonable to excuse the advo-
cacy of social and political injustice
on the theory that there is a market
for it. One is destructive of the home.
The other of the state.-Los Angeles
Express.
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FROM OTHER PENS
THE FARMER IN FINANCE.

1t1E FARMER IN FINANCE.
The farmer is the real sheet anchor
of American finance. He has nearly
forty billion dollars invested in his
business. He produces $25, 000, 900 of real
new wealth every day. He uses hun
dreds of millions of bank credit every
crop season, and all this he does at a
serious disadvantage, because of exist
ing customs and conditions in our
banking and financial circles. The credit
of the American farmer renders it I'M
necessary to transfer gold from this %
other countries in payment of obliga-
lions. At the time the free silver cam
paign was on, and for many years
afterward, almost every day the, news
papers recorded the shipment of gold
nom this to other countries, or return
shipments from other countries to this.
This is no longer necessary When ].
j. Hill had to meet an obligation of
$500 5000 in gold in London some years
ago, he did not send a dollar to that
city. From Galveston, New Orleans
and other Southern coast cities, and
from the granaries of the West, he OBJ
tanned bills of lading and warehouse
receipts for enough surplus products to
cover the $4,000, 900, and could have had
much more had he desired it. These he
sent to London, and they were accepted
as gold. When our government agreed
to pay Spain $40. 900, 900 not a dollar was
sent out of this country. The same Sc
curities were gathered up and forward
ed, and our money was kept at home
We may be short of money, as COM
pared to other nations, but we have
what money will buy, and this is quite
as good as cash.-Memphis News-Scim
itar.
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As Henry Clews, the New York
banker, writes in his current weekly
financial review: Crops are now Of
vastly more Importance than politics.
Each week strengthens the outlook for
a large and profitable harvest. Wheat
is turning out much better than ex-
pected, the estimates of yield varying
from 700, OOO, 900 to 75O,0O0,0o0 bushels.
If the latter results are obtained the
crop will exceed the previous high rec
ord of 735, coo, 900 bushels in 1906. For
corn the outlook is at least 2, 500. 000,O 900
bushels and some estimates predict
that the crop of 1870 which amounted
to 2,SS6, O00 900, will be surpassed. Corn,
however, is somewhat late and still in
danger of early frost, so that oyerconf1-
dence in this respect is somewhat pre-
mature. AS for cotton, the latest adj
vices suggest a yield of about $4,000, 900
bales. This will compare with 16,00o,-
900 bales last year and 1857 900 bales
i'll 1904, the second largest crop. In adj
dition we have big crops of oats, hay,
apples and fruits generally. As already
stated, the agricultural products of the
country this year will probably reach
s., 900, 900, 900. or fully $500, oOO. 900 more
for continued prosperity could be de-
sired.
General business shows a tendency
towards increased activity. This is par
ticularly true in the northwest. Dry
goods jobbers are purchasing more
freely in anticipation of agricultural
prosperity. In the manufacturing sec
items, particularly those depending
upon the steel industry, there are also
signs of increasing business expansion
Even in New England, where strikes in
the textile industry have caused special
disturbances, the outlook is improving.
July bank clearances in the United
States increased nearly 8 per cent. In
New York City the increase for the
month was only per cent, financial
inactivity having kept the gain smaller
than would otherwise have been the
case. At Boston, Chicago, st. Louis,
San Francisco, New Orleans and all
other trade 'eenters there were salts
factory gains for the month. In Canada
bank clearings in July increased more
than % per cent over 1911.
I'm the third week of July Al roads
reported an increase of over per cent
in earnings, and railroad managers are
confidently expecting still better re-
suits in August and September. Some
OF the less favorably situated railroads
are making very poor net returns-the
Hartman lines, for instance-but when
traffic increases, as now seems certain,
these losses should be reduced if, indeed
they do not entirely disappear. There
is likely to be a hardening of money
rates arising from increased trade and
crop requirements. From now on the
latter are sure to extend. Fortunately
the European markets show easier
tendencies. which will of course tend
to keep down interest rates, and no in
furious stringency is in prospect"
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lost passengers and members of the
crew. There will be no money left
after providing for urgent wants. The
extent of the effects of the tragedy has
been found so great that no ordinary
relief fund could have prevented dire
misery.
Under such circumstances the giving
for the sufferers has been as timely as
it is generous and impressive. 1t is
one more fine proof of the kindness,
brotherliness and goodness of human
nature when the best in it is appealed
to effectively.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Time may be money bu. it's useless
to hunt for time that as lost
q
Ard the most senseless kicks are
those directed against the weather.
y
Nor are there so many people who
believe that patience is rewarded.
What has become of the old fash
toned children who were more or less
innocent?
n
When woman marries "A man
merely on account of his money she is
probs bly, figuring on the alimony she
is likely to obtain.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.l

[From the New York Press.1
A woman judges all women by theI=
stockings, except herself.
The only decent excuse for doing what
you ought not to is not to do it.
The girl who can wear pink every way
just laughs out loud at the girl who can't
any way.
A man can't tire himself with heavy
thinking the way he can tire other peo-
pie with heavy talking.
If a man was just wild to say the Ten
Commandments something else would just
naturally slip out first.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
HU1NOR or THE DIP

Lucky Juliet.-Mrs. Knicker-What i'm
pressed you most in Romeo and Juliet +?
Mrs. Subbubs-The fact that Juliet could
keep nurse in what appeared to be tho
suburbs.-Harper's Bazaar.
Motner-Why, dear. what's the matter7
Daughter-Geo-George asked me II he
eouId-kf-kiss me- We'll, my dear, George
know that he is very much in love with
you" ''Ye-y-e-s, but when he went and
asked me, of course, had to be indignant
New York Weekly.
Her Advantage.-First Little Girl-Your
papa and mamma are not your real par
ents They only adopted you. Second Li:-
me out; yours had to take you Just as
you came.-Boston Transcript.
Lady-Why don't the railroads have me-
chanical appliances for loading and I'M
loading trunks? Depot Master-Well. you
see madam, lifting the trunks into th,,
cars doesn't hurt anything but the mon,
and throwing them out doesn't hurt any
thing but the trunks.-Foster, in New York
Weekly.
Four travelling statesmen were in tram
going north and had to change at a road
side station far from any sign of refresh
ment. One of the number whiled away
TIE time by chatting the solitary porter.
he had been at this game for some time,
when the porters turn came Il say"
asked the funny salesman, why did they
build the station SO far away from the
village?' IT don't know" replied the
would be more convenient to have II down
here near the railroad"
Hawkeye.
ideals If she has to support one of them
-Lippincotts
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1t will be just like the Turks to
blame the Italians for those earth
quakes near the Dardanclles that were
particularly destructive and rolled up
a death list that is estimated at .OOO
And this, by the way, is far more damage
than the Italians have wrought against
the Turks during their protracted and
inefficient war against them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14

Not only is Ty Cobb a remarkable
player. He is also a past master in
the art of press-agenting. When he
doesn't happen to be making five hits
out of five times at bat, he is getting
mixed up in all sorts of affairs that
keep his name and pictures in prom
inent position in the newspapers. When
Tvs baseball usefulness is over there
will probably be lively bidding for his
services as a publicity promoter on the
part of the big circuses. 800. "a,
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out cost.

Certain prominent Democrats in
New York state have begun to perfect
another organization for the purpose
Of putting Charles F. Murphy and
Tammany Hall out of the control of
the party there. This political stunt
has been attempted every two years
or so for the past decade, and Mr.
Murphy and the Tammany Tiger have
always emerged from the fray wearing
broader smiles and Possessed of a lit
tie more power
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

Is the night ever so still that you
can hear the bed-tick?
fBaldyi. The jig is up. Smelly
the Rat has confeSsed)
IS 41S-=
If a rich, old lady tainted would her
heir restorer?
(stand aside. pleased I am the
bankers daughters)
Would a bird be any better off with
a dollar bill? As8
CNix. John. nix! Hes a Burns man
with a makeup.l
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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sway from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address az the rate OF
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out OF town the State journal VIII be
u you like n inily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
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Dental quest this year, he certainly
will consider himself entitled to the
honor of leading his own particular
party again when the chances might
be better. And if any peculiar turn of
the political wheel should crafty his
ambitions this fall, he would surely
deem himself entitled to at least a sec
ond presidential term under the brand
new political deal he has perpetrated.
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Congress probably will not adjourn
until all the members have made all
the campaign speeches they desire to
use during the rest of the summer and
fall. Congressman. you know, can have
IS many copies of speeches SO deliv-
cred. as they want, printed at the ex-
pense- of the government. They can
also send them through the mails with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14

Medical officers of the army present
the conclusion that men of the bru-
nette type are far superior to blondes
when it comes to fighting booze. But
inasmuch as the blondes are physically
the equal of the brunettes and just as
courageous. and as capable soldiers in
every other way, there is no particular
reason why any special medals should
be pinned on the breasts of the slbru-
nettes for their booze-fighting procHvi-
ties. The time has long since passed
when the quality of q man was meas
ured by the load of booze he could
carry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14

Governor Hi johnson of California
IS already being doomed as the next
presidential candidate of the new Pro-
gressive party. Colonel Roosevelt can
be depended upon to put crimp in
that boom in short order. If Colonel
Roosevelt is unsuccessful in his presi-