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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-19
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ArcHIsoEs GLOBE.

A crouch should be ashamed ito speak
his mind"
How short the days are getting. Time
to do your c. s. e.
A lucky man is one whose job is harder
than he thinks it is.
A man who wears tight shoes should
also array himself in skirts and corsets.
About the toughest way to lose is to
have the result in doubt for three or four
days.
son, they want you to listen to their YER
sion of it. 90. II ra'-ea- r.
Not much of our sympathy goes to the
woman who marries for a home and
doesn't get it.
Sometimes following instructions is
easier than the course one might map oft
for himself.
The first thing that Clean Language
that roll.
Teachers and preachers shouldn't try to
convince the tired business man how
hard they work.
A man who devotes. his life to hard
work may get rich without having a great
deal of fun out of it.
If you get what you want, you must
get it for yourself, and then there is a
chance that it won't suit you.
Link Preston has had all the troubles
flesh is heir to. excepting running after
people for interest on loans.
Neither have ever encountered any
formation bureau look from the outside -
-Rufe HoSkins.
No, Geraldine, you are mistaken in the
notion that the retired campaign mana
gers have secured employment with the
weather bureau.
whom he is interested: Is she pretty? Is
she interesting? Can she cook? WoIn-
ans question concerning man. under
similar circumstances: How much does
he earn?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-19
SAYS UNCLE CAV

All that nine out Of ten failures
need is to quit moping and hit the line.
Most of US have gone stale. We get
used to thinking about the same things
in thu same way every day and forget
that there is anything new in the
world, or that the old things may be
seen from a new angle. And seeing
old things from a new angle Is the
greatest achievement in the category
of big things. There isn't much left
to discover except the new possibilities
in things that we see and misuse every
waking hour of our lives.
Too many of us move about like
men in an opiate dream. We see yet
do not perceive. We hear yet do not
understand. We tread the ruts and
lack the initiative to find the smoother
travelling just at hand. We never
wake up. We browse through golden
freighted hours and leave opportunity
to embrace those who are fully awake.
If you're not making good, come out
of it. Shake up the dry bones of your
business Just to hear them rattle. The
sound may suggest something worth
while. Whoop it up little, merely
at. some life into your affairs. A
change of the old order is likely to
give you that ever necessary new
angle of vision. At any rate, you'll
attract attention, and attracting atten-
ton is the essence of advertising,
upon which the success of all modern
aHa1rS depenQS.
If your business is dead, it's be-
cause you have gone to seed. If you
a not prospecting in your profession
it is because you have drawn into your
shell and look like a dead one to your
neighbors. They'll begin to be inter-
ested in you when you show the first
signs of life.
Moreover, you can't attend properly
to your own affairs unless you take
{ n intelligent interest in the affairs of
others. We are living under a system
that is becoming daily more complex,
and If are to keep yourself and
your business in tune with 1T you've
got to know what is going on. Any
way, an interest in others is the best
stimulant yet invented for sluggish
muscles and torpid brains.
There was once a young man who
had legged away for the better part
of his thirty years without making
any considerable progress. He had
worked hard, but seemingly he had
Lot reaped where he had sown. A life
of poverty stared him in the face. But
there came a time when he took stock
was wide awake and went forth look
for opportunities. The first great
opportunity came in humble guise and
he -asped it. He saw an old bust |
ness from a new angle. Today he is
the richest man in the wor1d-he
it, aid he made good.
If it paid John D. Rockefeller to !
wake up and take new view of |
it might pay you. At any rate, /
Mr.. Rockefeller, who should know, ,
says that opportunities are increasing I
at a marvellous rate for those who are !
wide enough awake to see them.
Pinch yourself Quit moping. Wake |
up. Hit the e-(Copyright. 1912, /
bv the Mcclure Newspaper SyNdicate.) /
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-19
HUHOR or THE D<Y

These doughnuts,'' began the 49,.
w mats the matter with them p, a M n
eo the we're de We're behind the I,1~eI-
counter. i think their inner tubaS Ill
u LOUISVILLE Courfer-JournaL
Our notion Of tact is keeping a friend
after said friend has purchased an aTto
mobile.-Punch. al auto
Mother-This is your new little brotbe-
Tommy-GeeI Can't he be recalled - NJ,
York Sun. Ne"
stella-I thought he wanted to MARI.
MSDel. vbeIllae-Well, he forgot to register.
Howell-Why don't you run for office
Powell-If did L would have To III
Dack-Washfngton Times.
Latin Teacher-Now you may give M
an example of the dative. High Scbnt 1I
6rl with her mind elsewhere)-I vii
meet you at o'clock.-Puck. VIII
Clarice-Well, aunt, how do Won III,
your new doctor? Aunt-Oh. innnenssi.,
He's so thorough. He never comes - - ~,
ne without finding some little thin ~
matter with me."-Judge. 's 'ne
ties. You can't deny it," IT wov1,. e so5-
It But have you noticed that his Ts 1elly
ties do all the hard work afo,,. F OF
place Louisville Courier-JournaI S
You must have seen some frat.
10 adnire,s said Mr.. Meekton, cor ~,
wouldnt have married me-" "i did >.
piled his wife; your sublime 49,, u
STAG. " asningto~
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star comes to earth, Bob, so our
! dreams are dissipated."
! Not my dream of you! Would you
nays have me believe that you have lost
| faith in every dream 2"
II still believe in the pretty habit
/ of imagining lovely things, but know
/ life too well to expect any of them
ever to come true. am no pessi-
ed to swallow the bitter with the
sweet and never make a wry face at
the world"
They tell me that you are quite
famous now, that your miniature on
the line this spring was a wonderful
thing
Perhaps" said Margaret. and
there was no laughter in her eyes nor
on her lips, perhaps that is the best
/ thing that 1 shall ever do. I painted
| 1t out of my heart
Did your" His own voice startled
him.
Yes, I know that did. I painted
into it all my tender faith, love and
hope; all the beautiful things of my
youth before l gained wisdom at the
expense of happiness. 1 suffered to
paint that miniature because / paint
ed into it my lost dream"
II love you. That is why 1 came
home: 1 loved you when I left here.
You were a sweet young girl. 1 was
a wild, headstrong man. Full-hand-
ed went away, carrying my youth, my
and my eager interest in life. l went
after strange gods, excitement, money,
experience, the lure of the world. I
come back to you, having gained all
these things, yet empty handed save
for my dream of you.''
Don't" she begged, her eyes on
the velvet petals of the Killarney roses
on the cloth; don't rouse my faith in
foolish dreams, Bob. In my work only
have found contentment."
why do you wear my mothers
ring? I gave it to you ten years ago."
For sentiments sake" she
breathed, but knew that she was trap
ped.
Marry me, dear. Let me renew
your faith He left his place and
bent over her where she sat like some
picture lady in shimnering white and
pearls against the high backed old
mahogany chair. Show me the min
iature that hung on the line, the one
you painted out of your heart. Let
my dream come true! love you So"
She drew a locket from the laces of
her gown and Mayfield saw himself,
idealized, glorified, all the dear
dreams of his boyhocd lighting his
eyes.
Margaret" he cried brokenly,
why did ever leave you to go after
strange gods?"
only that you might come back to
me- she said.
A great log broke on the andirons,
sending up sheet of flame. So love,
out of the ashes of yesterday, flooded
their hearts again.-(C Copyright 1912,
McClure's Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-19
AYHAWKER JOTS

A Pratt young man was overheard
by the Union to observe that all
blondes are not fair.
Cuba is ready for the National
league; Havana fans threatened tic
lynch an umpire last week.-Wichita
Beacon.
Editor Harger of Abilene Reflector
expresses the belief that presidential
messages during tho next four years
will contain no split infinitives.
II do a whole lot of fool things"
says Bert Walker, but one of them
is not getting into an argument over
a point in geography with Is year
old boy who goes to school evety day."
A Lawrence girl has been saving
her street car transfers thinking they
were coupons, comments the Journal
World. She only discovered her error
when she tried to learn the value of
them.
Anyway a young matron remark
ed to a Leavenworth Post reporter
the other day, my husband couldn't
storm and rage any more than he
does, if the bills are fifty dollars in
stead of twenty; so might as well get
a few more things I want"
The Salina Journal: The teacher Of
a primary class in a Kansas Sunday
school had been explaining the mean
ing of being a Christian to the mem
bcrs of the class and when she had
concluded she said: Now children
hope you are all Christians" I'm
not" piped up a tiny tot in the front
row, I'm a Presbyterian"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-19
KANSAS COMMEN4
Is THIS A Fact

According to the London Times. con-
siderable authority as newspaper cpin-
ions go Cor perhaps they don't go we're
in doubt), says that the heroine of the
modern novel leaves her husband be-
cause he bores her; he being a dun
fellow and something in the CITY,"
around this theme, says the eminent
authority quoted, are builded plays and
novels now much in vogue. AS IL is the
women who are the largest readers IF
novels and patrons of the theaters. il Is
evident the authors study to give the
women what they want, and they NAV
De doing it. Our own limited literary
observation has shown a recent change
IN the notion heroine; a stronger type,
prepared to save the home or country
as occasion demanded, but mostly
SUCKING to the man in the case al
Inough sometimes caring more for
solhetnlng or someone else. Evidently
me ciinglng vine variety is passe, ana
Sro1ay the women want 1t that way.
S,O-Isluerlng the conceft of man eener-
any, 1t is improbable that he will ao-
cePC IN view OF the Times as a state
woe proposition, and particularIr as
apPIylng 10 his own case. 1t would he
JOLT II he should find out II
rue Admitting that he would
rather his wife should leave hi, e.
- or an ideal than for another
man ne mates to think she could oet
al'Ung very well IL she did. But. NOT
ILLS 1analng a fine regard for the vast
army of helpful Husbands ~ .. a vast
~ true that in fact, as well as ~ az an
IIon, there is no denying that tha e
maze OF this particular species Is be-
coming more Independent than sba wes
t ~ the Gays gone by. And if this has q
superiority of the mascuIine rs OF the
aeiy is the mans fault; a good r paUDr
no+ iinI IaIed to come up to the press
H;otices' and that rule is likely 70 co esS
s sidae ~ any man of proper age and ont
essent tie convict 9 class. can vote, but the
PaTtlcular, are not so evartI,, ot ne,
trlouted.-Atchison Globe. us
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-19
QUAKER INDICATIONS
[From the Philadelphia RECORD

lFTom the Phtlddelphfa Record
Sure things are sometimes uncertain
Only a pessimist would weep for joy.
1t is easier to rest too much than work
too hard.
Nobody likes the man who thinks he
knows 1t all.
The average mans popularity seldom
outiaSts his money.
The more a man practices economy the
less popular he will be.
The average man has a pretty slim
chance of landing fat JOB.
One mans poison is another mans
breadth the latter is doctor.
Give US contentment and we care not
who invents perpetual motion
A man ought to feel satisfied with him
self when he thinks everyone else is.
Many a young fellow sows his wild
oats in the vain hope that there is going
to be a crop failure.
Women are more apt to look on the
bright side than men, especially II 1T
happens to be a mirror.
When an actor complains that he isn't
getting fair show it may be because
he isn't giving one-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-19

THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT,
There's million men a-massinx and a
billion hearts are fired
AS a world awaits expectant fcz the It'd
1ngs from the East
Wnere a new awakening people by tie
- deeds OF old inspired,
VI SaIamis and Marathon in sanity
grandeur sired
STANDS twixt the light and darkness
the Chr1sts grim -sworded priest,
AIlo the world in wonder watches, and the
worlds great heart is glad;
men TOT years would drive the crescent
out of Belgrade to Bagdadv'
From the ash of ancient glory there has
shot newborn flame;
Can the Turkish torrents quelch It7
Hate of ages famed it forth;
Many years have seen it smothered; will
1t die down whence it came?
when gold is not the bellows and the fuel
is not fame
But timed and righteous fury toward
the tyrant of the North?
There's force behind that spirit that no
cause before has had.
For God goes with the battle cross from
Belgrade to Bagdadi
Lord of mankind grant them mercy! Be
the warrior cursed or blessed;
For, the roar and tumult over, and a
hush upon the field
Who can tell the awful anguish of tie
flowing wounds unguessed,
Where the war must e'er rage fiercest-
in the lone rent mothers breast?
And no earthly balm can soothe it, in
heaven 1t may be healed.
Grudge We not, oh, Greece, your heroes
lusty man and beardless lad
while the cross drives on the crescent
out of Belgrade to Bagdadf'
Harry Klipper, in New York American.
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TAKE CARE OF KANSAS TEETH

The man of fifty today who can
boast proudly of his mouth full of
personally conducted teeth is the
man who was taught when a young
ster that cruel punishment of the
teeth and gums by a tooth brush
would mean only a speaking acquaint-
ance with the dentist in after years.
In these times of soft, sweet foods
and highly perfumed and candy-tast-
ing tooth powders, the care of the
teeth is a more serious problem with
the children of the schools.
The action of the state teachers in
recommending to the dental associa-
lions a course of instruction to the
children will mean less pain and
agony to the men and women of to-
morrow-to say nothing of the beauty
of good teeth and the lessened ex-
pense of their care. The profession
is aware of the acute dental needs
of children-and in most cases they
are willing to give advice. The de-
termination of the state dental asso-
citation and the Shawnee county
branch in organizing district societies
to promote public welfare by the adj
vancement of the dental profession in
education. science, mutual fellowship
and good feeling will be approved and
applauded in Kansas.
It would not be going too far in
Kansas to insist that the parents of
school children exhibit certificates
showing that the teeth of the boys
and girls had been examined at stated
times and that they had received
treatment by accredited dentists. This
sort of a campaign has been launched
in New York state through the efforts
of the New York Times and it has
resulted in a great good.
The diseases of the mouth and
teeth with their serious and pain
full results should be averted in future
generations by the education of the
boys and girls Of today. Stop and
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BEAUTY IN Badness.

| A prominent physician in washing
ton predicts that women will be bald
J in a few years. This settles it. For
fifty years baldheaded men have bsen
consoIing their wounded pride with
the belief that badness is sign oe
dignity, and intellectual power. Now
that it is believed that women will lose
their tresses, the male sex With the
shiny pates may rest assured that
beauty in the future will include the
polishing of their hairless domes-
A beauty specialist amends the
Washington physicians prediction ly
the statement that not many years
hence beauty doctors will have instru-
ments and tonics for polishing thUir
customers pates. Women viii vie
with one another, he says, to see who
will have the slickest and most bril-
liant shining scalp. The bald women
will have much more brain power, it
is said. They will conduct tne home
In a more sanitary and scientific
manner. They will know more ABOUT
the care of children and less about
the frivolous things of life. They will
be the equal of men in business Ct
fairs.
The bald headed men always have
asserted that the man with luxufl2nt
crop of hair spends too much time
growing hair and too little time In
creasing his intellectual power. Ihe
man with plenty of hair, realizing tat
there are no bald inmates of the asy-
lums and respecting the pride OF MS
les handsome brothers, does not deny
the allegation.
Meanwhile the bald will wait pa
tiently for the photograph OF the ram
lily group with the bald headed moeh-
er sitting proudly in the middle OF
hairless sons and daughters. on
daVi
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EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUrA CAkHRON.

friend of mire had just been reading
one of my little talks in regard to the
pie while she is trying to help them, and
, she came to me with the paper in her
hand, her face beaming with triumph.
ture of my sister. Were you thinking OF
Ter when you wrote it?''
why no." answered most truthfully,
does it describe her?'
ITO T., said the woman. ct do hope
she'll see it 1 think I'll leave the paper
open somewhere where she cannot miss
Whisper now. while tell you a secrcti
The person whom had most in mind
when 1 was trying to describe this type
was this woman herself.
Isn't it queer how easy it is for US. to
see the mote in our brothers eye, despite
the huge beam that clogs our own?
Often when I write about faults it is my
own that 1 am criticising and 1 know IT.
But other times think I writing
about faults that do not happen to pos
sess. And then, even while I write, L
Pause and wonder, AFTER all am /, my
self, one OF these people I am scoring?"
And quite often I find that 1 am.
The lady-who-always knows somehow
did me the compliment one day Of assuring
bles would do great deal of good, because
when people read about their faults they
could not help recognizing them and try
Don't you believe it, Ruth said the
wants-to-be cynfc promptly None OF them
will ever think the coat fits them. They'll
fit"
Which cynical view, as the little in
eident of the two sisters proves, is certain
ly more or less true
The newspapers and magazines of the
present day are full of philosophical and
moral writings, pointing out our faults
and suggesting ways to overcome them.
1t ought to do us a lot of good If only we
would take the dose instead of passing it
on to our neighbor.
But the doses these ethical doctors at
tempt to. give US often go quite as TAR
astray as the castor oil which the obliging
drug clerk put up in soda water A young
woman had asked him for some castor oil
put up in some way so that it wouldn't
taste bad. While she was waiting. she
ordered glass of soda water and drank
it. After a few minutes she asked the
drug clerk where the castor oil was Il
put 1t in the soda" he said, you couldn't
taste it. could your" oh said the
young lady, Mortified, at was for my sis |
ter wanted it,
Seriously, are yo1 and I receiving all
the help We might from these articles?
Now, let's not try to put that coat also |
on our neighbor.
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7
| Turks are plotting to convert what il
left of Turkey, into a republic, but
those who have made close study OF
, the situation feel that what is left will
be more suitable for converting into
hash.
! Someone has played a joke on the
manufacturers of a safety razor. TINS
department has received four units OF
a 'follow-up" system of letters boost
/ ing a certain brand of Wflisker re-
mover. The tariff on ether makes 1t
so blamed high that this department
saves money by avoiding the safety
razor.
In fact, when this department feels
an irresistible call for Self-punish-
ment, an ordinary garden rake is used
! as humane substitute for the safety
razor.
1t is contended that the safety
razor is desirable article because one
cannot cut one Cor severafs) throat
with it. Neither can one Cor more)
with the garden rake.
Thus the only defense of the safety
razor is swept away with two or three
inane paragraphs.
Last Sunday noted philosopher
and politician and another person.
were the guests of Hon. E. d. NC
Keever and son. The guests were
transported in style and white blank
ct to the justly celebrated Mckeever
pork-chop and alfalfa conservatory in
jefferson county Upon the return
trip the philosopher and the news
paper man agreed that the FARMER
life is the only real life-proViding,
the farmer owns a nice little 800-acre
garden spot within gasolene distance
of the city. And, on the question OF
whether or not the city dweller with
the two-acre chicken ranch idea IS
misguided prune, the vote was: yeas,
a couple; nays, none.
1t is our contention that when a
newspaper moves into = a nice new
building, the wages of the office boy
should be raised. The privilege of
pasting trite headlines and attractive
cartoons on the wall is part of an CT
flee boys compensation, but 1t is not
permitted in a borrowed house.
AS to the report that friend Emer-
son Carey ran over a $500 dog; there
amt no SIGH animile. In our youth we
owned a 10-cent cur and wouldn't
have sold him for a fortune the day
before he died of paresis- no
stretch of imagination could have
made that dog worth Is cents net.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent his
to the Turkish troops.
Fluctuations may be filling to the
Turkish equivalent for
"felicitations'' may contin seventeen
syllables, but the chances are good i
that the starving troops might prefer |
g. few syllables of baked beans or |
pate de-whatyoucallit.
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HAVE MUCH AT STAKE.

| ONLY the briefest and most super
ficiaI study of conditions in southeast
| era Europe is necessary to convince
any American that two great en- pres
have a tremendous stake in the future
of European Turkey. A glance at the
map is sufficient to show that Russia
absolutely must have friendly p"W-
er and one not too strong to be Caeer
for Russian good will, in possession OF
ConstantinopIe. The narrow straits
between Europe and Asia are the cut
Ict of the Black Sea, and from Inc
ports of that sea the surplus g. al.i anf!
other products of Southern Russia
the most fertile part of the empire
find their highway to the markets OF
western Europe.
These conditions justify Russia in
demanding a potent voice in the set
Element of whatever questions con-
Germ the possession of Constansinopie
ana the control of the fortificat1cns OIL
the Rosphorus and the Dardanelles,
Rut there is no apparent reason why
the car and his government should
object to seeing the city of Constan-
tine pass into the hands of srlaIl
state like Bulgaria, which could never
attain sufficient bulk to invite trau-
BILE with a power such as the encr-
nous Muscovite empire.
Austria-Hungary, like Russia, IS 50
situated that the future # tae bdlk-
an peninsula must always be of great
interest to the dual monarchy which
finds it's hope of expansion In the
southeast, rather than westward.
Austria cannot possibly gain territory
which is now German or italian.
Neither can Hungary dream Of ex-
pansion northward into Russia The
future growth of the Austro- Hunga-
rian empire must be southeaStward If
there is to be any widening of its
boundaries.
The hope of the Balkan states for
free and natural development in the
territory lately III the possession of
the Turks, lies in the obvious clashing
of Austro-Hungarian with RUSSIAN
ambition. Between the two great RI
walls for primacy in the south eastern
corner of Europe there may he an OPP
portunity for such liberty and safety
in national growth as justice demands
that the heroic little kingdoms now at
war with Turkey shall be given.