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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

to brush away the snow, when the
victim revived enough to say;
"A little wine or brandy, please"
In thirty seconds Tommy had the
decanter from the sideboard, and the
drink he poured out would have made
a horse dizzy for the next three days.
Miss Nellie only slipped it, and about
five sips made her sit up and say:
How silly of mel I thought ]
could face the storm all right"
You would have frozen to death,
but L happened to hear your cries I
guess you're all right now, though.
| Let US turn the chair to the fire"
II wait few minutes and see If
the storm doesn't let up. Your mother
has retired, I suppose ~
Shes away"
WHAT
And so is everybody else and I'm
alone in the house."
You are here alone!" exclaimed
Miss Nellie as she rose up and stag
gered toward the door. q"
"Oh, come, now. Miss-Miss Graf
ton, I think it must be-you can't go
out into this STORM" pleaded Tom
my
But you see-you SEE
You go back and sit down and I'll
go out myself. I'll go up into the
garrett. I'll go down cellar. I'll find
a nice warm snow drift Ny name is
and I'm perfectly willing to have my
ears frozen for your sake"
The girl halted. smiled and re-
turned to her chair to say:
I'm afraid you wouldn't look well
with your ears amputated. Sit down
and we'll talk. I have met your
mother, and a dear old lady she is,
but I have not seen you before. You
may have met my brother, Fred %
MOO, but shall very soon now"
But we are to talk about reci-
procity, the tariff, woman suffrage
and all that, you know. Now, then,
begin; and I will take the other side
for arguments sake"
1t was two hours later that the des-
perate brother Fred. after being al
most frozen in looking for a quite
frozen sister. stumbled up to the door
and rang the bell and disturbed
heated argument as to whether old
maids should be given the ballot
along with the rest of the sex. There
were EXPLANATIONS and explanations,
and in the midst of them Tommy
drew Fred to the front door and out
side to say:
mr. Grafton. we are having a biz
zard'
''weII?'
"Ard I want your permission to
pay my addresses to your sister with
a view to matrimony.
you've got nerve to drag me out
here in this storm to tell me that.
But like nerve. Go ahead"
And as the other sex admires nerve
up to a certain point Mr.. Tommy
went ahead.-(Copyright 1912 by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
QUAKER NlEDIrATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Dame Rumor always talks In stage
whispers.
A little push is sometimes better than
a big pull.
1t would take an autopsy to locate TIE
brains OF some people
When a girls face is her fortune. she
isn't so apt to need a chaperon-
The fellow who Is looking for a job r.
generally an adept at finding fault
Hoax-"A cold in the head must run its
course" Joax-''Yes, but not TIN you
catch it,
1912 should see an Improvement IN the
quality of beer. There should be moro
hops in leap year
Many a man doesn't realize he has al
inpediment IN his speech until he Is
tempted to praise others.
Nature has endowed many a fellow
with the ability TO make fool OF himself
without exciting any comment
Siilicus-'sWhat do you consider the
most delicate form OF flattery2" Cynicus
-'sTeIling a married man he doesn't look
IT."
Don't despise the little things, but at
the same time the bigger the fish. the
less necessity there is for lying about Il.
Things are not always what they
SEEM quoted the Wise Guy. That's
ght.'' assented the Simple Mug. You
can't tell how big a girls foot is from
the size OF her shoe"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
I'D HERTESLNc TALKS


In the twenty-six years I have been In
the advertising business. a great many
changes have taken place.
remember the time-and It isn't so
long ago. either-when all advertising.
good and bad, was considered as grist 10
the mill.
Today the men engaged in the adver-
Using business, who are standing shout
der to shoulder in an effort to make adj
vertising valuable by insisting that IL
shall be truthful, are numbered by the
thousands.
And the publishers who are exacting
high standards I'm thcir advertising col
umns are numbered by the hundreds. !
Mr.. Erman j. Ridgway. who recently
analysed the advertisements printed
city found one newspaper that did no.
print any Objectionable advertisements
and three others that printed only be
tween > per cent and per cent Of their
total volume.
few years ago such a condition did
not exist anywhere.
newspapers that try hard TO eliminase
from their columns both Objectionable
and untrustworthy advertisements
A marvellous change has been wrought,
but the volume OF advertising has in-
creased in spite of the elimination ana
death Of great quantities OF deceptive,
dishonest advertisements that used to fiu
the columns OF the various publication
of the country.
some OF the advertising printed TO-DAY
which is accepted because it cannot be
defined as actually dishonest, viii be i'm
proved as the years roll by because Il
will be found by those who employ the
present form that il does not pay.
A business becomes good IN spite ot
itself when IL cannot succeed by being bad.
The moral effect Of honesty. I am sorry
to say, is not half so potent as the cash
in the till that results from the practice
of honesty.
But why quarrel with the method so
long as the result SO much to be desired
is obtained?
ITO be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
SAYS UNCLE CAV

| Most of the writing crew-dramatists,
novelists and ro1flancers generally
mistake or misstate the real tragedy of
life. which is not death. nor even de-
feat. but inefficiency. The shadow of
the cave mans fear of death is over US
still-the pail of black superstition
born when behind the slant brows of
our forefathers reason was only be-
ginning feebly to fecunate, and there
was nothing real but lust and terror.
Since then, million men have died
fearlessly where one has been afraid,
and save when violence has interposed
to cut short an existence still full of
vigor and the fires of strife. the horror
of the change has been in the hearts
of the living. rather than with the dy-
ing.
Infinitely sadder and infinitely more
terrible than death is the life of the
incompetent. tormented by desires it
cannot fulfill, and tortured by ambf-
lions which it cannot realize. The mys-
FERROUS passing of breath which leaves
ment since is terrible enough to the
living. but the ineffectuals who are
half in love with easeful death are as
the sands of the sea-
Were 7 e maker Of plays. my tragedy
should not be builded about some huge
heroic figure who has seized his own
particular corner of the world and
made it over to his hearts desire, but
one whom nature made awry or u
weakling born with aspiration, but
without some little factor of the man,
the lack of which has made him but a
thing of sport for circumstance.
would weave this tragedy about an in
effectuaI who has vision, scope and
breadth and depth and high ambition.
but who wants the courage to attain
through trials, tears and bloody sweat
who cannot know that these are
sweet when not in vain. Or I would
give the stage to one who has the
bravery but not the brain to reach the
prize for which he gropes. There should
be no blood, save that the pores ex-
ude in agony Of unwulflled ambition;
there should be no tears except the
tears Of him who fails. The curtain
should go down upon no PROSTATE
figure Of a conquered master of his fell
low men but upon some futile thing, al
most a man, who still puts forth an
eager hand to grasp the thing he may
not seize.
It is all of life to live and be of use.
It is worse than death to live and hone
and strive and in the end be useless
copyright, 1911, by W. f. Will
liams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHEsON GLOBE.

The pace that kiTIs is seldom devoted to
hard work
If a man has a mean disposition mis-
folks are apt to find it out.
An Enthusiast is man who viii ride a
bicycle during zero weather
Don't you hate the person who is al
ways trying to catch you in a lie?
How doth the little busy bee get
through a hard winter without work?
Doubtless one reason so many people
like to work is because they have to-
Too many people start down on the
theory that they have a round trip ticket
You may have observed that few people
forward good news by telegraph.
The mere fact that q sunragette can
raise a beard doesn't entltIe her to vote.
A good deal of allegiance is given for
the purpose of getting the right OF sur
frage-
Some men would do better If they were
willing to be a little lonesome occasion
ally.
for money find they have sold at low
1t seems that the dove Of peace has
about as much trouble as a rabbit after
a snow storm
one must have something to back self
confidence If he expects to sell It to an
advantage
on the piano before she can call her play
ing q recital
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

Lee Hammond. carrying William
Simpso as passenger, introduced a
new phase of aeroplane sport at Nine
ola yesterday by going hunting for
wild fowl at an altitude of 500 feet.
IN the absence of Captain Baldwin.
Hammond invited Simpson to take a
ride on the Red Devil biplane. Simp-
son. who is a professional rifleman,
took his gun along
The pair started away when they
saw a flock of wild ducks in the dis
lance. over Hampstead village, at a
height of 500 feet, Simpson got the
range and fired. He killed one duck,
according to his own story. 1t was
picked up by a youngster below. who
ran away.
Returning. the aerial hunters ran in
to a flock of starting over the Mine
ola field, several of which Simpson
killed.
on a subsequent flight the riflemen
fired at tin cans thrown into the air
by people below. Several of the cans
were perforated.
Hammond and Simpson say that the
recoil of the rifle did not affect the
equilibrium of the aeroplane. They
viii try the experiment again.-New
York American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
EVENING CHIT
BY RUTH CAMERON

A wouId-be humorist, who evidently
objects to the recent influx of books seek
ing to make us better acquainted with the
outdoor world, assures us in the joke
columns of a recent magazine, the public
viii probably be interested in a series
about to be published on How to know
the birds from the flowers" and several
similarly ridiculous subjects.
The last of his series is How to know
the grass"
Now, perhaps I'm lacking in a sense of
humOr, but really, / don't see anything so
terribly absurd and impossible in that last
title I've no doubt that a book could be
written on just that subject with a good
deal of interesting and novel matter in it.
And furthermore, such book might
have the effect of making us see some
thing that we've only looked at before
A few months ago, I questioned If many
even fewer really SEE grass, and APP
preciate the infinite variety in the tex
ture of the lovely carpet which nature
WeaveS for her world.
Such a book as the wouldbe humorist
proposed might open the eyes of many
half blind folks to see what they have
always trampled unSeeing1y, and thus
give them new interest in their walks
abroad.
Except that these would probably be
the very people who wouldn't read such a
Myself, I am no deep nature student.
and I don't know anything technical
look for and delight in few varieties of
grass.
r
brown grass, almost as lovely in Its
graceful undulations and faint pastel col
orings, as any wild flower.
And then, there's the funny little
squatty, clumpy grasses, quite as differ
ent from the tall undulating variety as Il
hippotamus from a giraffe.
[ do not believe anyone who has lived
by the sea can have missed the beauty or
marsh grass. Sometimes 1 think the rip
pie of the Windswept marsh grass Is as
wonderful as the waves of the ocean
itself.
The common, or garden. variety OF
grass, of which lawns are made, and
which is all grass means to most peo-
pie is not the less beautiful because OF
its commences. ! do not know how most
people feel about it, but for myself per
fectly kept lawn is full as pleasing as q
fine flower bed. How lovely and restfui
a sight it is in its undulating smoothness,
its eveness, its freshness after rain, its
there. had almost said emerald
greeness," but why describe the great
er by the lesser? I'm sure an emerald is
not half so green as finely kept lawn,
far better call the emerald grass green.
Surely, even the man to whom a prim-
rose by the rivers brim a yellow prim-
rose is and nothing more, could not have
failed to look with appreciation on fine
lawn
StiiI. I don't know. Perhaps he was an
ancestor of the would-be humorist to
whom a book on how to know the grass
is the very height and acme of humorous
abSurdity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
THE DIsrRIOr SCHOOL.

I've a pleasant recollection
OF a quiet farming section
Where with slow but sure graduation
I began my education
In the land of PARKWAY and Long-ago.
And the place where was entered
AS a student was well centered,
Standing on a strip OF pasture flat and
Where the country lads and lasses
Romped around among the grasses,
And the grazing cattle wandered to ana
Oh. how well I do remember
How How each year. l. from ,a se2te I1s,er IN
rain snow
It'll June roses were a-blooning;
But let no one be presumlng
There was e. er time didn't want TO go.
Pumpkin college dn be candid
Was the name the school was nanueo
At the time twas built, and neither 1rleno
Fer expressed a wish to change it,
Although someone did arrange
Into plain P. C.-for brevity, uoW-
And we had all sorts of teachers
Smart young men and fair girl creature
And for sake of change, a cross old ma1o
But they each one did their duty
And we learned! That was the beauty
OF old-fashioned schools of long ago.
Those were days of Eyes, ma'arn' no.
ma am,
please may I speak?'' and May I CO.
ma'am?"
And when classes to recite stood In a row
Then if rules should go UNDECIDED
And a punishment be needed
That was what the teacher fastened to
bestow.
s'Jogfry," history, and grammar
Patiently they all did hammer
The way we learned the three n 5 was
not so slow
oh. we stored up useful knowledge
F3y the peck at Pumpkin College
In the Land of PARKWAY and Long-ago-
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

lr rom II6 chicago news
Hope for the best and then hustle for IT,
1t takes woman long time to grow
old gracefully.
No, Cordelia, gifted people are not
necessarily generous.
Many a mans spicy conversation is due
to the aroma Of cloves.
It takes an optimist to get more out of
a thing than there is in 1t.
Love may be blind. but the brides
mother usually has her eyes wide open.
We admire well informed man who is
able to keep his information under cover
Anyway, people who are frankly poor
do not have to associate with the rankly
rich
If young mans love is acceptable to a
girl why should she be willing to return
It?
Some men are born to trouble, but the
man who makes love simultaneously to
two girl chums has it thrust upon him.
Occasionally a woman seeks a divorce
on the grounds Of incompatibility-be
cause her husbands income isn't COM
patible with her ideas of comfort
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sponsibilities whatever they may be-
In his communication J. E. H. with
out intending to do so, of course,
somewhat misguided the writer when
he said that he came back with a
story that Roosevelt had told him. This
writer did not come back with such a
story, and J. E. H. has simply but
Internationally got his wires slightly
crossed
If Colonel Roosevelt tells one man
something which another man does
not hear, the other man must be hard
of hearing, for the colonel has q way
Of speaking out which is decidedly re-
freshing, interesting and sometimes
creates CONSERVATION, as it CRATES
loudly on the ears of people who ex-
pect to be answered in a whisper. But
that is one of the coloners ways and
you have to take him as he is, which
is really a better way than to take him
as some people seem to think he
ought to be.
In connection with J. E. HIS letter on
politics he speaks of the story of a man
who saw Roosevelt This reminds
the writer of a Renaissance of old time
politics, when the writer was report
err He is still a reporter. however
Years ago Colonel H. c. Cross Of EN-
poria and Colonel William Martindale
of the same town were prominent poll
teal factors. working hand in glove
Colonel Cross was fine gentleman of
the old school, but in his haste he was
not always careful of his lenses. A
politician looking for aid came across
Colonel Cross one day with a scheme
which he thought was important and
which Colonel Cross also thought was
worthy of consideration, and not de-
handing too hasty action. Playing for
a time Colonel Cross suddenly said as
he CROPPED about for political inspira-
ton: Have you saw Bill?'
[Chapter Xxx tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor is it possible to avoid a bill col
Iector forever
=
AS matter of fact it's only a very
few people who begin quarrels purpose
".
y x
Nor is a hot temper any more ser
vieeable in cold weather than it is in
warm.
Unusually cold weather is likely to
make most folk fail to see any beauty
in the snow scenes.
X
There is nothing very palatable to
the reverse of that proposition that only
fools and children tell the truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NOALL.

If music is pleasing would watch
charm?
ooh run on about your business,
you foolish wolves. Your snarIs won't
scare Kitty Carson.)
IF last year had 365 days has 1912 ?
(Ho1d his head men. Some one cut
those traces. Look out for his hind
legs.)
When an aviator is a mile high can
you see the aeroplane2
Cup with the napkins boys, here
comes the soupi1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

As was to have been expected the
national baseball commission has an
nounced, after a searching investiga-
ton, that nobody connected with base
ball was responsible in any way for the
ticket scalping scandal incident to the
championship games last fail This is
reminiscent of the reply of Topsy of
Uncle Som's Cabin fame when she is
asked as to who her parents were I
didn't had none.'' answers Topsy Use
lust groWed."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

That fight which is on among the
members of the Commercial club is of
the right sort. Various factions in the
club are at war with each other as to
which one will obtain the most new
members. This is also a fight in which
al the men worth while in Topeka can
participate. 1t is up to everybody to
show his progressiveness by taking out
a membership in the club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. LaFonette are
too wise to organize a third party.
such a party would be many years in
making any Roadway toward an ulti-
mate success. This wouldn't make
much of a hit with the leaders among
the LaFollette enthusiasts What they
want is more personal power forthwith
and at once
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

Real retributive justice: The presi-
dent of the Kansas Natural Gas com
pany had to go breakfastless the other
morning because he was dependent on
the meal being prepared on one of
those hreless cookers that are so
numerous these days in many Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

Many Of the small boys around here
are undoubtedly in their element these
days With frozen water pipes pre-
vailing in most of the homes. and
warm water as scarce as seal-skin
coats. it's impossible to douse the
youngsters in a bath at the slightest
provocation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

The suitcases of Topeka are doing
their best these days to redeem them
selves Instead of plying their usual
pursuit of concealing the contrabands
of prohibition. they are providing the
only means some people have to get
coal to their homes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

Wisconsin has set another pace that
all the states in the Union should fol-
low A prominent money lender at
Milwaukee has been sent to jail for
three months for practicing usury-
There ara ,:surers in e1 cry city of any
size throughout the entire country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

With Governor Stubs coming out
nat-footed for the nomination of Col
oneI Roosevelt as the Republican presi-
Dental candidate, this sort of leaves
Senator I3ristow all by his lonely
among the ''progressives' of Kansas in
the advocacy of the LaFoIlatte candi-
S51av
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
ARBITRATION AND HONOR.

If the arbitration OF any international
controversy is desirable why should an
exception be made OF those questions in
volving the national honor? Are there
men yet alive who believe that an af-
front to honor must be atoned in blood
What sort or a man IS It who breaches
that il IS all right to arbitrate a boundary
dispute or a commercial controversy and
all wrong to refer Question OF honor 70
impartial and disinterestcd judges7 The
nation that is afraid 10 trust its honor to
a court of all nations probably has al
ready violated all principles of honor and
breads the just verdict OF honest men,
Salina Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

When a bumper wheat crop is har-
vested in Kansas next spring and a big
corn crop is in sight for the fall. moth
ing but fond memories viii prevail of
the snow and cold that has caused SO
much suffering throughout the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

lFrOn the New York Press-I
Beelzebub never needs to brag-
Even a burglar looks down on a poll
ticia7.
Mighty few people understand their
virtues.
Liberty begins in the cradle, but ends
at the marriage altar
4 woman can do more with smiles than
a man can with money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

It will take more than one or
dozen receivers for the various nat
ural gas companies in Kansas to pro-
duce more gas than there is and dis
trib- te a larger quantity than the pipe
lines and pumps are adequate to han
do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

So much baseball news in the news
papers nowadays must be particularly
aggravating to many people Baseball
suggests the balmy breezes of summer
and unusually warm seats on the
bleachers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

If that decision of the Kensas su-
preme court holding chip in keg par
ties to be perfectly legal affairs had
only come in the summer time. more
folk would have become enthusiastic
about it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

FtOFLE EASILY TLEECED.
me champion sucker died lately. He
had 81 ,346 shares OF stock IN various COM
panies and their par value amounted TO
S5l6S2- What this victim paid for them. OF
course. does not appear. but Il was GER
tainly a large sum And the Appraisers
OF the estate set down the whole as hav-
ing a value OF 500. Another man had
1885 shares The list was made up or
fifty-six stocks-practically all mining
and oil stocks At public sale everything
IN the list that was salable brought Just
S5oO-2o- Millions OF people are victimized
every year by the smooth agent-Abilere
Reflector.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

Peace in China is beginning to appear
above the horizon The rebels are
willing to give the Manchu princes
and potentates life pensions of large
proportions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09

Now that Rev. Richeson has con-
fessed his guilt of a most atrocious
crime, it IS safe to assume that more
morbid ladies than ever will send him
bouquets of flowers and boxes of bon
hons