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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
VERDICT ON TTTANICs LOSS.

There is little the public did not al
ready know in the report of the senate
committee that investigated the I'll
tanic disaster. But it puts the facts in
the case in concrete form for use Il
whatever new maritime legislation maj
be needed and places the blame for the
catastrophe, with its terrible loss Of
life, where it upquestionably belongs.
Further than this, it is the verdict OF
the American nation.
Recklessness and laundering are, in
brief, the Indictments brought against
the owners, builders. officers and crew
of the Titanic. And the are ampl.
backed by indisputable facts. There
were not enough lifeboats. HI crew
was not trained in handling them.
They were sent away from the sinking
ship only partly filled. The bulkheads
supposed to be watertight. were not
watertight. The ship was rushed at
top speed through a sea in which it's
officers knew there were ice foes and
icebergs.
The world will accept the judgment
of the senate committee regardless of
whatever statement may be made by
the British Board of Trade as the re-
suit Of the investigation it is making.
The board is in a position where i
must either seek to vindicate itself OF
condemn itself. for the owners of the
Titanic. are taking refuge behind the
obsolete and insufficient regulations Il
still address to as an excuse for their
shortcomings. From the nature OF
questions being asked in the board in
vestigation. the conclusion is warrant
ed that it is seeking to justify itself.
But, as the chairman of the senate
committee says, We shall leave to the
honest judgment of England it's chas-
tisement of the Board of Trade, tc
whose laxity of regulation and hasts
inspection the world is largely indebt-
ed for this awful fatality"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
AyHAWKER JOTS

AS a rule men don't deceive their
wives, advises the Kansas OptlmlsI.
They just think they do
Whenever you can buy a man for a
couple of dollars you have made d
pretty good bargain, says Bert Waike'
in the Osborne Farmer. Every puSI-
ness man in town has made such deals
With pig weeds, lambs quarters ond
other necessary ingredients to a good
mess of greens as plentiful as they
arc this spring the high cost of living
is robbed of some of its horrors, thinks
the Hoxie Sentinel.
Commenting on the observation of an
exchange that "a good many nice
fresh fish have been caught out OF
the river the Russell Record says
We have noticed that most of the hsh
here are caught "out of the river.
They generally come from the meai
market.
An entirely plausible story is put out
by the FL Dorado Republican as tol-
lows: 1t is said by an FL Dorado bust
ness man that the "old musket" which
did such valiant work in a speech at
Wichita this week and which was pur-
ported to have been carried in the late
urpleasantness, is in reality ansold flint
lock. 1t was purchased at a rummage
sale in Ell Dorado severa years g for
60 cents.
In China, reports the L-eavenworth
Times, when a subscriber rings up, the
exchange says the operator may be ex-
pected to ask: What number does the
honorable son of the moon and stars
desire?" "Hohi, t~wo-three." Silence.
Then the exchange will the
honorable person graciously forgive
h inadequacy of the insignificant Ser
vice and permit this humble slave to
h wire to inform him that the never
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES line is
busy?"
Editor Dickson of the Neosho Falls
Post is a tolerably busy man, it would
seem. Editor Kelley Of the Toronto
Republican visited, him recently and
OF Brother Dickson's activities. he
writes: Mr.. Dickson is the postmaster,
insurance and real estate man, and the
only lawyer in the town. Besides he
has a farm he looks after n
orders for Indiana maple syrup, and
is notary public, and when these re-
sources fail he gets cordwood on sub
soription and the neighbors bring in a
mess of greens and he has a bully
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

Most good business men owe money
If you think of something first how
proud you are of the fact.
So many things are forgotten, but not
what one wants forgotten.
The only time Link Preston shows any
speed is when he does something as a
matter of duty.
Sometimes a snob doesn't seem so much
that way after one manages to get ac-
Quainted with him.
A man doesn't really feel his Importance
until he begins to call his s-tenographer
his private secretary.
Sometimes a woman selects a sweet ro-
mantle name for her child, and doesn't
take very good care of it.
Sometimes as a man grows older he be-
comes more economical until he conslG-
ers the parade the best part OF the cir
Gus.
Even funeral expenses are becoming
higher, and there are many who do not
feel that a funeral is worth the money.
Ever since he seconded a motion to ad-
journ the caucus in his precinct, Alb Az
kins has felt he is an authority on parlia-
mentary law.
Il once knew a man so smart, he made
money out of his regular business and
three or four side lines. but he finaiy
died of overwork, and I enjoyed my shift
lessness more than ever before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
SAYS UNCLE CAV

I'm a great believer in noble dis
content" and Tn not over particular
that it. should be extraordinarily noble.
But it's a far cry from this sort OF
unrest to mere business. And that is
what ails most of us.
If the cancer that is feeding upon
your peace of mind makes you buckle
into your ask and climb out of the
rutS, it's the right kind. of a disturb
ance If it merely make you want TIC
let loose and swat the nearest thing
to hand, it isn't the right kind, and
you'd better take something for your
nerves.
There's no greater blessing than the
kind of discomfort Ia makes YOU
work harder, more carefully and more
intelligently with each succeeding
day; no greater curse than the brand
fretting over your surroundings. The
one is the beginning of wisdom, the
other incipient frenzy. b.
Behind every deed worth while is
that divine unrest that is ambitious
to Guido the good1y deed Of today with
the goodlier deed of tomorrow. Behind
most un~beaPable tempers is that nerv-
Gus fussiness that is never satisfied
with anything" The two extremes are
the philosopher burning the midnight
oil to discover yet a little more OF
truth and beauty and the woman who
can't De happy because she can't nave
a hat like her neighbor. -,
Noble discomfort" replaced the tai
low candle with the incandescents.
the ~stagecoach with the Pullman, the
postboy with the night letter. Fussi-
fills p~oorhouses, jails and lunatic
asylums.
The n has gone a long way to-
ward making earth a paradise. The
other would turn Eden into a back.
alley tenement.
The moral is: Before you act upon
impulse Of unrest, find out what
kind of an unrest it is.-(Copyright,
1912, by w. E. Williams.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05

sleeve as he rose and Marietta's won
derful locks hal come with it. The
hair was a wig and in the beating sun
light. Marfetta's head shone smooth
and pol shed and bald. The queen Of
beauty was absurdly, ludicrously ugly.
Marietta was not a whit disturbed
by this unfortunate accident. She
laughed good n~aturedly, put her wig
just up from a spell of typhoid fever.
Everybody laughed at the incident,
the dancing was resumed, and only
Polly noticed the look of blank horror
on Jaspar Slappey's face He slipped
away from the crowd and was seen no
more, even when twilight came on n
the p~icnickers started for home. Polly
waited a~nxiously, but her truan escort
did not return and finally she agreed to
let Morgan Bib take her home.
They turned down an unused lane
and were driving rapidly to overtake
the others when they came upon as
par Slappey. He sat listlessly or the
bars of A high wooden gate a forlorn
and detected figure, black against the
golden sunset. Polly leaned closer to
her companion and chatted gaily as
a little distance up the road she leid
a OBTAINING hand on Morgan Bibb's
arm. -
please. Mr.. Bib, 1 want to go back.
I've forgotten something"
WHY. of course" he answered, I'll
take you back"
Polly shook her head and Morgan
Bib, who was a very decent young
nan understood. He bit his lip, for
he thought he had captured the heart
of his simple country maiden, but he
stopped the horse at once and helped
her down. Polly put out her and md
locked at hin appealingly. you have
been very kind to me, and I'm sorry
to be SO rude. But 1 do so want TO
go back"
He smiled down at her. Never mind
about me. Goodby. little girl, and good
luck"
When he, climbed back into the bug
gy he waved at her, but Polly did not
see him. She was hurrying down the
lane.
She found Jasper lying in the grass,
his lead buried in his arms. Polly
was rather a dull little person. but she
realized that what was only a Joke to
the rest of them was a tragedy to Jas
par. She sat down by him timidiy,
and then at the sight Of his misery,
she grew suddenly wise and bold. She
drew his head into her lap.
Jasper gave a long sigh. "Oh Polly"
he cried. Wasn't it frightful? My
Queen of Beauty?' And then in a pas
sion of contrition. 81 treated YOU
shamefully, Polly, indeed 1 did! You
shall be queen next year"
But Polly, with Jaspar in her arms,
was far happier than any queen. New
er mind" she
Marietta can be queen again.. She'll
have plenty of hair by that time."-
Copyrighted, 1912, by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
QUAKER
IRON the Philadelphia Record.l

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.1 -.-
1t isn't always egotism that prong is
us to exclaim, "Oh, dear me-!
1t is better to cudgel your own brains
than those of another man.
The average woman's idea of love takes
the form of quantity rather than quality.
Would you say a woman conversation
was flowery e she talks through her
hat?
Any young man can maxi a name for
himself. In fact, If the police RECORDS
are to be believed, lots of them make two
or three.
The people who pray for what they
want shouldn't curl UP their noses at
those who go out and hustle with the
same object in view.
Tommy-"Pop. what is an egotist:'
Tommy's Pop-"An egotist, my son. is .
man who thinks he can form an impair
tial opinion of himself"
The woman who goes to hear a lectuae
on How to make home happy never
to consider that she might gain her
object by staying at home.
Wigg-"Would you consider .Scribbler a
Wagg-"No." Wigg-"Why, he's
always trying to borrow money" Wagg-
Yes, but he doesn't get it"
Tatterdon Torn-'Here's a piece in de
paper wot says de great trouble wild de
American people is dey eat too much"
Hungry ENTHUSIASTICALLY geei An pen
pie gifts paid fer -writin' t'ngs like dat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
AN URRAN Law

~ <-N
A winsome maid with Mobile face
And curling Auburn hair
Roams far Bayonne her native place,
With most Superior air.
Around a Little Rock she strays,
Then toward Ann Arbor green:
No Streator alley meets her gaze
What Erie sight is seen?
A charging Buffalo she spies.
For Battle Creek its Jaws:
south Bend your Stepsi' q farmer cries,
Get Thayer before you pauser"
Comamndfngly young Lawrence spoke,
he k she obeyed;
Inc Deast so Great Falls at his stroke,
Andover it the maid.
I've Concordp' gaily he exclaimed,
Eau Claire, your thanks express!'
Me-" she said, they name,
So Macon other guess"
She sought to Barre from him her eyes,
Hot Springs a tear in view;
A husband Fond du Lac" he cries,
I'm bent on Marion your"
"A happy Homestead Pa will give.
Where nothing Mahanoy;
How Joliet will be to live
In Union full of joyi''
In thanks to Providence I vow
Wen long Revere this day;
And Wheeling up my cart, I'll now
Tacoma bride straightway!"
Ivy Kellerman Reed, in Harper's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
GFrom the Chicago News.I

Nurse a grievance and watch IT grow.
It's tough when loves young dream dies
of old age. =
The love of applause Is responsible for
many near actors.
You are wasting time every time you
tell your .sorrows.
Trouble never attempts to dodge those
who are looking for 1t.
Some men are bashful when II comes TO
meeting their obligations.
The wagon wheel usually has that tired
feeling, but 1t never complains.
Getting things without paying for them
IS some mems idea of economy.
Some p~hilanthropist should oner a re-
ward for a college that doesn't need tie
money.
Children who have been brought I'D a.
pets may never get over being ~disagres-
able
Many a doting father has paid hundreds
of dollars to learn that his daughter
couldn't sing.
It's difficult for the average man to ua-
why some women are Jealous u
their husbands
A girl may laugh at love, but later she
realize that there Is nothing better
to cry on than a mans shoulder.
Every time the wrong young man calls
a girl she always says to some other
girl the next day: II thought he never
would go home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
HOW TO KEEP A HOUSE COOL

You are not human if you do not
try to get through the warm season
with just as little work as possible,
says the Kansas Industrialist. To do
this first have a grand housekeeping;
eliminate all of the unnecessaries, and
then see if o can keep a comfort
ably cool house this summer with
comparatively little work.
Don't leave a heavy, thick-napped
rug on your living room or dining
room this summer, for they are de-
cidedly out of place and look hot. Ev-
eryone recognizes the true value of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
INCREASING PRICES.

With the possible exception of the
Civil wal period, the cost of living Is
higher in this country just now than 1t
has ever been before. And yet the pro-
tests on the part of the people are not
nearly as noisy as they were a year
or so ago when boycotts against meat
and other things were started in sever
al localities. Perhaps the people have
become convinced of the futility of
protests in this direction; a bowed
to the seemingly inevitable, and are
grinning and bearing their added bur-
dens as best they can.
Prices today for most of the necessi-
ties of life average ten per cent higher
than they did a year g Prices On
food products are averaging almost %
per cent higher than they did a "a
ago. And this increase of prices can
scarcely be blamed on the tariff law,
for there have certainly been nc mater
ial changes in that measure for more
than two years. There are some who
will insist that the Vaccinations of the
trust controlling many of the food pro-
ducts and other necessities are to
blame, and they may play a part. other
economic theorists are likely to insist
that the ever-increasing gold supply is
responsible for the ever-increasing
prices of things.
But when you get down to brass
tacks, the most essential reason for
them is that the production of most of
the necessities is not keeping pace with
the denand for them, not only in this
country but in all other countries
prices are also generally increas-
ing. The increases in foreign lands
though, have not brought the prices
to any such figures as those pre-
vailing in America. Ind, generally
speaking, the reason hat the produc-
ton of food products in this country is
anywhere near keeping pace with
the demand is to be found in the grow
ing a-ttractiveness of urban life. The
cities the country over are being jam
med and congested at the expense of
the rural districts. If there ever was
a time when the back to the farm"
should be pressed with vigor,
that time is now. OF course, the rather
crops of last yea have played
their part in the present high prices
Of most things. This is especially true
Of meat. Because of the drought of
asst summer, and the succeeding high
prices of feed, the cattle raisers had
10 market their stock, or most of it,
unusually early. If they were to get as
good as an yer break. Then, too.
since the big cattle ranges in the West
nave been broken up into FARMS, h
have not engaged in cattle
on the scale that they should.
This makes for the beef shortage that
s putting the price of it almost out Of
each.
However, it is possible for the people
% peat the meat prices somewhat by
their consumption. Ameri-l
ans have been in the habit of eating
fore meat per head than almost any
people. Anything that savors of
IN excess in the way of a meat diet is
leleterious to health, and especially
when the weather is warm. Many peo-
lie have undoubtedly made material
,uts in their meat supply already.
There is no good reason why all of
hem should not and particularly dur
the summer season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05

temperament, and much depends on
how cool your home looks.
So take up the heavy rugs and car
pets. and either leave the bare, pol
ished floor or put down some sort of
inexpensive covering. Rag rugs that
are woven in many pretty designs are
very practicable and much used. Old
fashioned braided rugs are also in
vogue, while jute or grass rugs. be-
sides being pretty, are easily
kept clean.
You probably do not care to go to
the Expense of buying very expensive
curtains, but take down the heavy
ones you used during the winter and
then, after you have packed. them
away where you can't get at them,
you will simply have to get some new
ones. No living room seems perfectly
honey without some sort of curtains
but draperies may be made of muslin,
scrim or even cheesecloth. A plain
hem, and shirred at h top and hung
on brass rods is a simple and effective
method of arranging the curtain.
Should you prefer it less plain a
simple stencil design adds a dlstlnc-
tive touch.
Now take every Unnecessary piece
of furniture out of the rooms, SO tney
won't appear hot and stuffy. Inc
portieres between the parlor and oln-
ing room should 60. Should you nave
other rooms in which there are doors
that might be removed, do so'- Tor
everything that you can do to create
the feeling of largeness should be
done.
Now that everything is arranged
and in order, there is something else
for you to remember. Where the fly
is. there neat will be also. They make
you seem hot, sc do away with this
troublesome creature.
Make it a point to keep the house
closed as much as possible during the
heat of the day. Then, when it's
in the evening. open all the
windows and doors. Always remem-
too, that a cool house is a clean
one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH

If you can make one heap of all your
winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and
toss
And lose. and start again al your be-
ginnings
And never breathe a word about your
loss.
-Kipling.
That, according to Mr.. Kiplfng, is
one of the Ifs whose satisfaction
makes up the full measure of man.
Can you satisfy that "if"?
If you can you deserve an adjective
that I think mighty few women earn
that is game"
On our return from a short trip
which 1 recently took with a friend
n hurried upstairs to her room and
came down with a beaming face.
We'll, I I'm glad" she said, 1--WE
actually found it."
Found what?" I inquired. She
had not spoken of any loss.
Well. h explained, "just after
we started I discovered that my lit
tie money bag was gone. 1t had a
hundred and five dollars in it that I
was going to put in. the bank. I
thought possibly I left it on my
dresser, but 1 wasn't sure, and there it
was, after all. Isn't that splendid ?"
well. why on earth didn't you tell
me about it before?" I inquired in
establishment. why, you were just
as jolly as usual all the time. How
could you pep"
"Of course. What would have
the use of telling your" she an
sWered promptly. "It would have
spoiled our trip to have talked and
fretted about it. I knew there was
nothing 1 could do about it until I
got home, so 1 just tucked the matter
away in the back of my head and
the trip"
Now do not infer from this that my
friend was one to whom the loss of
one hundred dollars would be a light
matter.
Quite the contrary.
Simply she was game"
She fulfilled Kipling's eff"
Indeed she went beyond that. Not
only did she fail to breathe a word
about her loss" but she made the
not to think of it, and that is
the last word in gameness-to make
your venture take your risk, know of
FOUR possible loss, and then braveIy
put 1t in the back of our head until
time shall have made its decision for
or against you.
Few men would have done this, and
m
To most of our sex, bred to de-
tendency as we are, it is second ma
ture to expect other people to share
our doubts and worries. |
I know a woman who is about to
invest her savings OF several years in
a lodging house. /
She has definitely mad up her
to take this step. She does not
any advice, but she does want
she talks with to spend
time wondering with her as to
whether she will succeed OF not.
She is the typical woman
Perhaps "gameness" doesn't sound
1t first like a very splendid quality, |
put when you look more closely at it
md realize that it simply means the
inc serenity of silent, unfretted wait
ng for the verdicts of fate, it seems
too desirable for us to let
he other sex m~onopolize.
To me, at least. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

More hopes are not reaLizeo po
cause thew are SO unreasonable.
An easy marks idea of himself is
that he's unusually clever.
\ X =
Too many of the arguments are
matters of little or no impor-
The happiest period in some mar
riaees comes with the signing OF the
divorce decree.
= =
Generally speaking, h h~en-pecked
sba is afraid to do only those
things that are wrong
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
HUNOR OF I'll Day

Heard about the latest insurance
scheme?' mo; what is it?'' why the
company agree to pay alimony to both
parties in case the marriage turns out
a faiIure."-Boston Transcript.
One of Many.-"Well, good-by, and don't
be too hard on my friend the compan
promoter. He's done some good things"
yes, I was one of them!"-London Opin-
ion.
Marks-Why do you allow your wife to
run up such big bills? Parks-Because I'd
sooner have trouble with my creditors
than with her-that's why.-Boston Trans
cript
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opened to the public. This is probably
bad news for the Roosevelt managers.
They probably hae an idea hat their
request in the premises woul be de-
MED. Then they would have been in
a position to cry fraud yer any or all
of the decisions that the committee
might make.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05

Colonel Roosevelt las an idea that
MI. New and other Republican Dos
ses" have formed a plot to distribute
most Of the admission tickets to the
convention a among Taft supporters
who might succeed by clamor in over
awning the convention. Why should Col.
Roosevelt be concerned over any such
possibility if he has a sufficient num-
Der of delegates already hog-tied to
assure his nomination on the first bal
lot?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05

Inasm1ch as the Topeka board of
education is a. creature of the public,
that public is entitled to representation
at all OF its meetings by newspaper
men, at least. This habit of the board
going into an executive session when
ever any matter of Importance is to be
determined certainly does not inspire
confidence among h people concern
ing the rectitude of the boards DELHI
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