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

thousands of foreigners? Nothing to
say as to whether they shall go on
pouring cut treasure for instruments
and implements of war, the very exis-
tence of which is the reason of the
jealousy that drives them on to con-
flict?
I'm a large view of civilization. In
the view which a few years more Is
certain to be an accepted common
place. England and Germany have no
more right to stop the current OF
worlds traffic. inconvenience and in
jure other people. than two bad boys
have to start fight in the middle
of the street to the annoyance OF ev-
erybody. The time is coming when
no power will be permttted-even II
it should be so foolish as to wish
to devote it's brain and wealth to the
criminal enterprise of building en-
gines of destruction designed to bring
about deliberately catastrophes which
when they happen naturally fill ali
minds with horror"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
QUAKER MI1DrTATIONs.
[From the Philadelphia Record.I

From the Ph1ladelpnld EASSoAA-I
Few men live up to their obituaries
Some people are satisfied to pave tEe
way with good intentions
Self-conceit is the derrick that RAISES q
man in his own estimation
Talking through her hat is probably the
only way the milliner can sell It.
lie only way you can cultivate some
men is by the process of irrigation
hut vice is always ready to work over
time.
who has never been troubled with boils.
When a woman is afraid of showing
her age she tries to cover It with coat
of paint.
In spite of the fact that some people
want the earth it still revolves on its axis,
thus proving there is enough of it to go
around.
Blobbs-''I saw the doctor stop at your
house yesterday. Anything serious -
Globbs-"I should say so. He came to col
lect his bill
Virtue is its own reward" quoted the
Wise Guy. mo wonder a man hates 70
be known as a good ting" replied the
Simple Mug
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CANNRoN.

There is great deal of necessary trou-
BILE in this world.
No one who has been in it very long will
deny that.
There is a great deal of inevitable I'M
happiness caused by sickness and death
and money losses and other more or less
unavoidable calamities.
But / believe that for every family
where happiness has been lost on account
of some inevitable trouble you will find
one where happiness is being deliberately
and unnecessarily thrown away.
l am thinking of a family where ex-
the last twenty years-the very core IT
the life of two of its Membership the
She is sick; she is to be pitied; she ought
to be kindly cared for. But she has alb.
solutely no right to have spoiled the hap
piness of that family as she has done by
own way in everything. And they have
no right to have let her. That woman Is
rotting with selfishness. She has need
lessly hindered the happiness of at least
two lives, and for my part am certain
that out of it all she has not gotten for
herself s. any more , happiness pin than IN she she
rifice. Indeed I suspect she has gotten
very much less.
That's one case of unnecessary trouble.
Here's another.
"A neighbor of mine was born with an
iHordinate tendency to worry. He has
never made any attempt to conquer It;
have been many years in this mans life
when health. an unbroken family circle
and material prosperity were his, and yet
all the time he insulted his good fortune
by worrying over some possible ill. Need
less to say this attitude was a cloud that
was continually shutting sunshine out or
his own life and that of all those who
lived with him. Surely that was needless
trouble and unhappiness.
Again, know another family in which
there is health, comfortable financial con-
ditions, an unbrolxen family circle and vet
little happiness. The unnecessary trouble
In this case is the husbands ungovernabIe
excuse me meant ngoverned-temper.
Life might be so very pleasant in that hit
tie family if it were not for that unneces-
sary trouble.
Somehow it seems to me as II real I'M |
avoidabie trouble must surely come 10 |
these people who, in lieu of 1t. make I'M |
necessary trouble for themselves.
For no one has any right to waste his |
powers of coping with and enduring I'M
avoidabie trouble in creating and suffer
Ing under unnecessary trouble; and when
he does that, fate must surely be tempted
to supply him with the real article.
Is there any unnecessary trouble In
your household?
Are you the cause of IT?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
THOSE ROOSEVELT ELECTORS.

Another judicial decision has been
gwen that there is no cause of action
in equity whereby the Roosevelt cleo
tors can be denied place in the regu-
lar Republican ticket on the Kansas
ballot. In other words, there is no law,
either state or national, to cover the
contingency that has arisen. The
courts, so far, consider themselves
pcwerless to act. And this is all that
the recent decision in the premises of
Judge Sanborn amounts to. IT is in no
sense an endorsement of the right of
the Roosevelt electors to parade under
the colors of the Republican party.
There is merely a lack of legal ma
chinery to cover the case. This, IN
essence, was the decision that was
given by the supreme court of the state.
In no legal proceeding that has been
brought to a head has the actual merit
o. the controversy been considered by
the judges before whom ii has been
laid. They have found no law or prece-
Dental decisions that would permit
them to accept the case for determine
ton on its merits.
Nor is this strange. In perfecting the
primary and election laws of Kansas
and other states, no one surely dreamed
OF the possibility of any such situation
developing concerning the selection f
candidates for the elector college as has
arisen in this state and one or two
others, since she Bull Moosers made
their appearance in the national politi-
cal arena. 1t was never conceived that
at a primary for the nomination of can
didates for presidential electors, such
thing as contest could or would be in
jected as who the successful candidates |
would support in the event of their |
election. As a matter of fact such a |
contest is wholly foreign to the purpose |
of such a primary. The primary. in |
this particular, is solely for the seiec- !
ton of electoral candidates for the sew
eral political parties. Election day is
the time and the occasion when the |
people Of a state select presidential
electors and virtually instruct them as
to the presidential candidate for whom
they shall vote.
1t was a pure prostitution of the Kan
sas primary to project into it a contest
as to whether or not the candidates
selected for the Republican presidential
electorships should vote tor the nom
nee of that party or some one else.
Such an issue was alien to all the in
ents of a primary. II was a false
ssue. And because of that fact there
; no substance to the claim on the part
'f the Bull Moosers that the verdict of
he voters in the Republican primary
s the last word; that they have the
igflt to do as they please. in the seles-
ion of candidates for the electoral col
ego or any other political particular
There can be no just decision on the
BART of voters or any other sort of
leterminative agency when the issue
PRESENTED to them is wholly false
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Each Given a squnre Foot.

One of the most remarkable scenes
in the annals of colonization was re-
Gently witnessed at Lethbridge, AL
berta, where, on May /. the Mcintyre
ranch, in the Milk River district, was
thrown open for free demonstrating.
The ranch, we gather from United En-
pire, was one of the last large tracts
of land in the immediate neighborhood
which remained open for settlement,
and consisted of about 900 acres. On
March % the first applicant took up
his stand outside the local Office, and
from that date to April 10 a constantly
increasing stream of land-seekers Sc
cured positions, waiting for the office
to open on the first day of May. All
records for theater queues were com
pletely eclipsed. BY an unwritten law
each conner secured an inviolable right
to his pitch so long as he was in it's
immediate neighborhood, and public
opinion made it impossible for any
intruder to Jump another's claim"
Tents sprang up along the road, tenn
porary beds were inprovised, cooking
was done on the premises and the
approach to the land Office looked like
the first day of a new mining town.
save that men and women were pa
tiently waiting in line for the opening
of the office three or four weeks hence.
On April 10, however, the mayor in
tervened and issued to each applicant
a deed of one square foot OF the pup
lie roadway on which they were stanu-
ing, the deeds expiring on May 2. the
Iandseekers went away contented with
having secured their right to stand IN
line ION theiP own ground" on the
opening day, and consequently TO
share of the Mcintyre ranch. A similar
scene was enacted in 1908, when four
men died from pneumonia due to ex-
posure The scene typfies more than
anything else the logged tenacity o.
those who are building UP the Canaolah
west-W estminster Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
HU40R or THE DAY

Poor Kid.-"No, you mustn't play with
your nice new horse; you would spoil Il.
I'll give it you when it's broken. "-Pele
Mele.
Green-Misery loves company White
But the cook won't allow US to have any.
-Harper's Bazaar.
"A glass of beer is the most temperate
drink How sop you never see one
full."-spirit Review.
little lad was desperately I'll. but re-
fused to take the medicine the doctor pre-
scribed- His mother finally gave up. on.
my boy will die, my boy Will die! she
sobbed. Presently a voice piped UP from
the bed Don't cry, mother, father u De
home soon and he'll make me take H. -
Norman Z. Mack's National Monthly
Hostess-WeII, dear. and what sort Of
time did you have? Lady (dispiayihs
torn dress)-Oh. er-rag timei-London
Opinion.
Color Blind My wife was suddenly
stricken with color blindness TINS HoI I
Ing II thought people we're ,Id I Se st rick
en- with it." MY wife was. Mhen ~
was making up this morning DT -,
half of her complexion into her eyes -
Judd NJ. Lewis. in Houston POST
Can You Beat It?-A merchant IN the
soft as a government job-and not so hard
to get."-Judge.
His Status.-"He-' "Oh, about ell he
amounts to is that he makes an excellent
given point for parades to marcn past -
Judge.
The Ill Bread.-F1ve-year-ol johnnie
was dining out in company with an
aunties. He quietly ate what was gwen
him until he tasted the bread, then he
frankly announced: "Auntie, this bread
isn't good" Hush! johnnie, that is
Inbred" admonished aunue. Johnnie
but when he reached home and
mother asked him what good things he
had to eat ne surprised them with; oh,
we had Jelly and meat and ice cream, but
I didn't like the i'll bread. Norman II.
Adack's National Monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
MATunA MuGGINs

Matilda Muggins (may her looks improve y
Awoke one night from fleeting dreams of
love.
And saw. within the moonlight near her
bed,
A spirit writing in a book of red.
La words OF flame it wrote, with mieu
inspired.
What names are those?'' the t3anasel then
inquired.
The spirit, answering. stayed its cleaning
pen-
1.-The maids whose beauty fires the hearts
OF men,"
And am I one?'' she queried. May.
not so,''
The spirit said. Matilda spoke more low,
But hopeful still, and begged in accents
~f bland,
Write me as one that cooks to beat the
band.''
Fhe spirit wrote and vanished. The next
1t came again with a great scroll of while,
And showed the names whom praise of
men had blessed,
And 10! Matilda's name led all the rest.
September Lippincott's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News.l

rFrom the Chicago News.1
Anyway. a rolling stone is a smooth
proposition.
Marriage may be a tie, but it is seldom
tongue tied.
A good man is one who is willing to ad-
NIT that he isn't.
1t isn't advisable to pick quarrel even
when 1t is ripe.
The incest thing about marriage is the
courtship that precedes 1t.
Some men make a speciality of starting
a scrap-between others.
A woman always looks before she leaps
if there is looking glass handy
1t takes almost as much nerve to sue
coed as 1t does to explain why you didn't
Some people would rather make an eff
fective disappearance than good ap-
pearance.
The man behind the pillow makes more
of q stir in the world than the chap be-
hind the hoe.
A man must draw the line somewhere,
but the chances are he will get on the
other side of 1t later.
What a lovely old world this is for
girl the first time she falls in love-and
what sadness it is when she falls O 1t
again!
Every wife thinks it's up to her to act
as her husbands guardian for the pur-
pose of keeping him from making a big
ger fool of himself than he naturally is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
GLOBE SIGHTS
az THE ATCHIgOfE GLOBE.

No one has to be told OF his mistakes
if they are serious.
The more vacations we have the more
we kick on the heat at home.
Habit is what makes one hang onto
chewing gum after the flavor is gone.
1t may also be said for the girls that
most of them are better looking than
their elbows
There are various ways of getting a
vacation, but joining the militia probably
is the hardest.
Hint to salesman. 1t is hard to make a
man loosen up by intimating that he is
a cheap skate.
Talk with Young Thing will reveal
the fact that she loves or hates everyone
in her circle of acquaintance.
Beyond soaring the children into stick
ing around home, the Gypsy serves no
useful purpose in the world.
A temperance worker hasn't much
chance with the fool who is proud of a
jag while his headache is still working.
Although it isn't their ultimate pu--
poses, colleges serve as a great aid to
rowdies in getting by with the rough
stuff.
An Atchison man is so lucky those who
know him will bet he could make money
on a tail-end ball team in bush league.
Fashion has locked horns with tie
weather: girls are wearing coats on tho
street and nothing much after they reach
home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
FROM OTHER PENS
MR.. KELLOGG TEsTIFIlEs.


Frank B. Kellogg, trust buster-in-
chief of the Roosevelt administration,
and present day Progressive and Bull
Mooser. says that the decision of the
supreme court in the Oil and Tobacco
cases is an important achievement in
the controI of the trusts. Primarily. he
says, these cases have established the
power of the federal government over
combinations and corporations estab-
lished by state authority, a power which
had been denied. Small corporations
and individuals have been given pro-
lection of law and today are enjoying
the right to do business with a fair
opportunity for competition. Mr.. KEEL
loSg is taking chances. Hitherto ne
has enjoyed an unchallenged reputa-
ton for being able, fearless, deter
mined and resourccfuI as a hghter
against illegal Combinations. In thus
approving the policy of President Taft
and giving credit to Attorney General
" lckersham, he invites the wrath of
ms fellow Progressives, Roosevelt and
PERKINS, such as Is visited upon other
hireHngs' of the malefactors of great
Wealth.-Philadelphi Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NOALL.

If Doc Johnson stabbed a dill pickle
as the plate was passed what did
William Shakespeare?
(Pass on. Youse can't Ioiter on
this corner.)
If a gambler stacks the cards what
does the smoke stack?
(KilI that man. He's the boob that
put the chill in Chile)
Could you maui a ton of coal with
a baseball team?
(Yes. that's true. Some dentists
are as painstaking as they are giving-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
ny TIE Way
- RARvNK RAR@oeeaA

A Chicago surgeon. according to re-
cent reports, opened up a hardware
store. He was called upon to remove
a lot of assorted hardware from the
interior OF a gent who, for many
years. had made business of eating
pocket knives and other tasty little
tidbits.
Down in Wichita they seem to be
hard of hearing. A Socialist street
speaker asked for reform, and they
mistook the order for emelette,
1t is said that a squinch owl will
chase the blackbirds out of the
Bethany campus; now the only trou-
Bile Is to get a squinch owl on the
town, but it is doubtful If they could
be induced to go SO far from the
White Way.
One notes from the news columns
that Taft is using cane; and in view
of the campaign methods used by the
bunch. he would be JUS
titled in using a yard of gas pipe.
''They say I'm crazy yelled the
harmless nut in a New York Third
term convention. And, recognizing
the qualification as leader, the
crowd followed him.
The reason some people stay down
is that it is hard work climbing a
ladder with both hands in their
pockets.
1t is alleged that Burbank has
made the cactus edible. If he has.
1t might be worth while for him to
try his hand on the carrot.
1t has been stated by prohibition
= IA fiGffnfonG hof Is a harfandoT
for every two school teachers. Such
may be the case, but if we were rum
ming a boozery and the bartender
could not serve at least three ordinary
school teachers, he would be canned
before Saturday night.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor does the man without enemies
amount to much.
4 y
If you try to do what's right you'll
generally succeed at it.
n
What's become of the old-fashioned
man who'd rather fight than eat?
% u
Going fishing and catching fish are
entirely different propositions.
n
Almost any kind of deal is con-
sidered square by the man who gets
the best of 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09

those with and those against the Pro-
gressive party. And the man who is
against the Progressive party, so the
colonel insists, lis the ally of Wall
street, the ally of privilege, the ally
of bossisrn." In other words, If you
are unable to believe that all of the
political virtue in the world is pos
sessed by the Progressives, you are an
undesirable citizen. a political crook.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.

CFrom the New York Press.l
Women ought to be able to vote SO as
not to want to.
The reason the children can get wet
feet without catching cold is you can't.
A millionaire can stand being hated by
everybody because nobody will be that
way to his face.
in the seat than to drive a four-in-hand
and be spilled in the ditch.
When a girl is too short she can build
up her height with heels and a hat; but
when she's too tall there's nothing she
can do but be sensitive about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09

All the statues of Justice in this land
must be smiling these days even if
they are made out of stone, wood or
bronze. Banker Morse, who was
pardoned from prison not so long ago
so that he could die at home and
among friends, has just organized a
big steamship company and is report
ed to look "the picture of rugged
health
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09

Rev. Anna Shaw. national pres!-
dent of the Equal Suffrage organiza-
ton, and one of the pioneers in the
cause, says that Colonel Roosevelt's
conversion to woman's suffrage came
too late to make much of a hit with
her. He is seeking the aid of the
women" says Mrs. Shaw, not to aid
the women All he is looking for as
votes for himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
GRAFT In BUsINEss.

Graft is not peculiar to politics.
Business is tainted with dishonest
practices. In fact, much of the dis
honesty in public life is traceable 10
the influence OF profit seeking private
interests. The scandals in connection
with the management of the Illinois
Central railroad, that were aired a few
months ago, bore a striking similarity
to those developed by the Merriam
commission that Investigated condi-
tons in the city government. Now
another concern, the United State Ex-
press company, has deemed it neces-
sary to carry on a searching Inquiry
to ascertain If it is being robbed by
some of its employees. The alleged
Irregularities in this case. too. are
much like those charged against Off
Gals and employees of the public SER
vice. The graft II 1t exists, grows
out of the purchase of supplies and
equipment, the employment of extra
horses and wagons and payments to
employees for extra service. 1t rs not
alone in the political field that there is
need for higher standards of conduct.
Chicago News.
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RooseVeltiani


How RooseveItian! ''Suspender
Jack MCGEE executed a stampede at
the New York Bull Moose state con-
vention that resulted in the nominal
ton for governor of Oscar Stratus. In
cidentally, Mr.. Straus is many times
a millionaire and can now be expect
ed to contribute literally to the great
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09

Nor are the people the country over
as dense as Mr.. Roosevelt seems to
think they are. He says that If the
aims of the Progressive party could
be understood thoroughly by the peo-
pie everywhere he would win. As a
matter of fact, everyone knows that
the aims of the Progressive party are
TO crafty the coloners ambition to
be elected president of the United
states for a third term.
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Only one short month. and that
agonizing period incident to the de-
termination of the baseball champion
ship of the world. will be here. Then
for a week or more, the politicians
might just as we'll take vacation.
Nobody will pay any attention to the
if they continue their activities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09

NO man has a right to call him
self Progressive if he is supporting
either of the old parties declared
Theodore Roosevelt in one of his Yer
mont speeches. Many Kansans would
be interested in a characterization by
the colonel of the Progressive who IN
sists he is entitled to Republican votes
in his guest for office.
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HOME NEws WHILE AWAY.

Gubacs gbers Of tho state Journal
away from homo during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each Gay 20 any address at the rate OF
$@r cents a week or thirty cents a
month (by nail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
0Tlf OF town the State journal Will be
IN you like a IeiIy letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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WORLDS STAKE IN All WARS.

In regard to the recent appropria.-
tons announced in the budget for
additions to the English navy to keep
pace with the increase in the number
of German battieships. a writer in
the September Worlds Work asks:
Has the rest of the world nothing
to say as to whether two members of
the family of nations shall thus tempt
and taunt each other to a conflict
which will upset the globe. cutting off
supplies from countries dependent
upon them, interfering with trade, al
tering prices. and bringing ruin TO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09

A Texas woman, who has only been
married couple of months, is suing
for divorce because her husband per-
sists in hugging her. She lays down
the rule that a months spooning after
marriage is enough. And most of her
sisters have little sore spots in their
hearts because their husbands quit
huggtng them month or so after
ruarriaRR
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the zapatistas

Surely the ZapatIstas are model
patriots. Whenever they take a town
in the march to the City of Mexico to
overthrow the Maderist government,
they burn all the building and every
thing else in sight IS an incident to
the Celebration over their victory.