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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The best friend I ever had is one
who would have been my enemy if 1
had refused to associate with him
upon terms of perfect reciprocity. He
has, perhaps, done far more for me
than ] shall ever be able to do for
him. He has done it unquestioningly.
upon the assumption that when the oc-
casion should arise I would respond
as freely And I take 1t that he is
correct in his views.
He who accepts the favors Of your
friendship and is unwilling to make
return in kind is quite as dishonest
and a good deal meaner that the thief
who steals your purse. The only
legitimate gain through friendship is
that which always results from sys-
tematic and intelligent cooperation
Any other sort of advantage is rob-
berry. The trio basis of friendship is
mutual service, which is softened and
localized into one of the most beautl-
full of human relationships. Selfish
ship should give ungrudging1y, but it
has a right to expect a return in kind
There is no baser criminal at large
than he who works" his friend. To
demand sacrifices from those whose
confidence we have and refuse to re-
pay is to brand ourselves as prosti-
tuters of a holy relation, as profaners
of the temple of human faith, to place
ourselves upon a lower scale than the
constituencies scalawag who betrays
public trust. for a price.-(COpyrigh
1872 by w. z. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29

saw Lon, her hair blowing in the wind,
her pony trailing after her, coming
down the old trail
ou?" she cried. Nick, Nick, why
did you come after me? There ism I
one chance in the world of getting out
safely unless the wind should change .
Wen go together, then" Nick
SAID grimly as he took her close in his
arms without resistance. You knew
Ia come for you, didn't you, Lou?"
He did not tell her of old Morrissey
lying somewhere down in Sawtooth
gulch. Hand in hand, like two chill
dren, the pony stealing after, they
made their way down the old forgot
ten trail, down out of the smoke and
whirling leaves into the cool green
depths of the gulch. Suddenly Lou
cried out in alarm. and dropped to her
knees. Face forward where he had
fallen near the ledge of rock was old
Morrissey, comfortably hung in some
spruce boughs between land and sky
Leaning over the edge of the trail Lou
could see his face upturned.
And I'm not dead yet, Nick lad"
he called feebly. Me legs hurting me,
and me shoulders splintered, but I've
found me way down Sawtooth after ten
years, and I've found me lost trail
again" He patted the ledge of rock
beside him. Lift me down from this
tree. and I'll show you where the gold
grows in nests like birds EGGS
Nick climbed down and helped him
back, little the worse for his fall. And
he told them Sawtooth's secret. Ten
years before, while hunting up through
the gulch, he had stumbled on the
gold, first in few scattered pockets,
then in broad, rich veins.
and I told no one, because 1 want
ed to keep it-not to sell, but to steal
down and look at now and then. And
the curse was on me for miser, so
I lost me way, and never found the
ledge again until just now
"Here?"
Andy chuckled feebly.
Here on the girls claim, and 1t
runs through to your own, adjoining.
Are you sorry now you gave poor old
crazy Andy a warm blanket and the
glad hand?"
Nick's arm closed around the slen-
der figure beside him. She lifted her
face to the rift of the sky far above
them.
Nick she whispered, 1.-The wind is
changing, dear" -(Copyrighted 1912
by the Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GToBH

Agree with people, even IL you don't be-
heve as they do.
There is a lot of damaging evidence that
never gets into court.
We have always had a desire to see a
stage cowboy on horseback.
You may have observed that a man
often goes to a sanitarium and is brought
back
Possibly there would be more divorces
if more women felt they could collect ali
mony.
From the outside looking in 1t always
seems that a social success is worth less
than it cost.
1t always seems to a boy that he couf1
get along nicely if there were only ten
commandments.
1t is pretty easy to discourage a farmer
or encourage him, if the weather is work
ing at it
Nearly everyone who is working for
salary feels that there should be more
holidays in this country.
Eating too much receives more encour-
agement than any other form of dissipa-
ton, and probably kills more people.
Neither do you know all about contempt
unless you heard woman who keeps
house discussing a woman who boards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
HUlNOR or THE DAY

Practical misunderstanding master"
said Yankee to a teamster who ap-
peared in something of hurry. What
deep is the creek? And what is the price
of butterY' Past 1 almost 2-home-waist
deep-and IL pence" was the reply.-FIzz
Getting Rid of Trouble-'Don't Won
think it is dastardly to send a man an in
fernal machine?'' asked Jones. while mo-
toring with Brown. ooh, I don't know"
replied Brown he car gave a dying
groan, halfway up the hill. III had an
enemy, I'd send him this one."-Judge.
The finest Madonnas are found in
homes, not in Observation-Disclosures
Man never knows what mutual sorrow
really is until he reads an editors regrets
-Lippincotts.
class)-John, you may tell the class what
a league is. John (promptly)-Eight base
ball clubs is a Observation-Disclosures.
Binks-what verse in the Bible best de-
scribes the college student? Jinks-They
toll not, neither do they spin, yet Solo
mon in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of theSe.-Judge.
MY goodnessl I can't understand how
she could give up her child. They saw IL
lives in the country" Yes. You see she
found flat that just suited her, and thc,J
wouldn't allow children in the building.
Laughter.
What a wonderful age of invention r.
is!'' said Mrs. Peterson; 81 see they are
some this very week to put a seat in
Johnny's everyday trousers. ''-Merchan
Traveller.
A Misunderstanding Boarder.-
Will you pass the cheese? Second board
er-How fast it is traveiing?-Judse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
LAND o, GOLD.


Long ago the western foothills
Yielded up their golden ore,
Where the blue Pacific murmurs
By the California shore.
Then the ring of pick and shovel
Mingled with the singing pines,
Delvtng deep for hidden treasure
In the shafts of rock-bound mines
Long ago the silent canyons
Weakened from their solemn gloom,
To the echoing blasts of powder.
And the miners roaring flume.
But the pioneers have vanished,
AS the years have drifted past,
And those frontier days of daring
Only in our memory last;
Changed the land from toll and hardship
To the lands of dreams and flowers,
And her riches in abundance
Nature gives in golden showers.
Clean of gold upon the hillsides,
That were once so brown and bare;
Clean of gold as pure as sunshine,
Flaunting in the MONDAY glare.
For the dazzling wealth in fragrant,
Scattered, yellow splendor lies,
In the fields of golden peoples
browsing under sunlit skies.
Jessie Davies Wildly, in National Mag
azine for June.
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QUAKER fluctuations.

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
The secret of many a mans success
isn't much of a secret.
Most things go when they get wound
up, but bore isn't one of them.
The only way to reach a mans pocket is
to hit him below the belt
Some men believe in the Golden Rule,
and others get through life on brass.
Many fellow goes to bed feeling like
ueuce.
Tommy-''Pop, how do they get
sponges?" Tommy's Pop-"Oh. in, divers
ways, my son."
''Time is money! quoted the Wise Guy.
Sure" assented the Simple Mug. Just
consider how time flies"
Blobbs-iThere are always lot of queS-
tionable characters around railroad sta
ton Slobbs-"Yes, especially at the bu-
reau of information"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29


These words of the great Paul are
but an excerpt from his instructive
and philosophical discourse to the
Romans on the uncharitableness of
one man judging another, and it's ex-
ceedingly reprehensible tendencies.
But beyond that, they contain the ex-
cellent suggestion that every man
should lend a hand to help his neigh
Dor in all things.
Far too many people are living in
this world today, as has always been
the case, who act just oppositely. In
their Jealous rush and hurry to
achieve what they may consider large
personal successes, they are alto
gether too prone to pay little heed to
the welfare, yes, even to the actual
rights of their brethren. Often
through thoughtlessness, and occa
sionaIly through design, they place
stumbling blocks of all kinds in the
paths that others must tread. Their
motto is of the me and mine" va
riety, regardless of what may happen
to other folk.
Not few of the large and small
victories of life, successes in the bust
ness and professional fields, are won
through just such methods as these.
But they are far from being desir-
able ones, Notwithstanding whatever
material value they may have. They
are certain to carry uneasy con-
sciences with them. For, say what
you will, there are always moments in
the life of every one, particularly
among those who are looked upon as
having been most successful, when re-
Election is sure to wake. AS it
echoes back, there come the thoughts
of those who have been ruthlessly
thrust aside and trampled upon in the
needless march, oftimes a mad one, to
such success as has been attained.
Such thoughts can not help being
bitter and discomforting. They will
rob any success of it's joy, of its pleas
ure. They can be brushed away for
the nonce. But they will reour again
and again. And with them will come
unpleasant and disquieting forebod-
ings For, as Paul says in his same
letter to the Romans, from which
the words quoted above are taken,
every one of US shall give an ac-
count of himself to. God"
And when the time comes for the
rendering of these accounts, there will
be many who will wish that their
records were cleaner in the matter of
having shown so much disregard for
others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29

Harvester trust. is a power in the
Steel trust, and is held in high esteem
by all of the nations big f1nanciers
who are SO often classified as being
associated with predatory wealth. 1t
makes it nice for "the plain people,
whose cause the new party makes pre-
tensions to champion, that they have
so many friends among the very rich
who are willing to pay the new party's
bills. 1t also rather skaters the the
Dry that the interests of the plutocrats
and the proletaries are at variance
with each other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARso1IA

The third term is taboo in poll
TICS as applied to certain offices, but
the candidate who Is really suffering
for a third term may find it in any
court of justice. The fact that he has
served two is no detriment to the
wop who wants another in Lansing.
Bill Sapp has introduced the silk
hat in Baltimore, where the soft
black SLOUGH has held since the Revo-
lutionary war, but Bill, being from
Kansas, has nothing to offer in the
way of new cocktail. Therefore we
will hear very little of Bill in the
general press reports.
The club woman who thinks ba-
bies should be taught music at the
age of six months, has another guess.
The natural discordant howl of an in
the amateur vocalist who is working
out on III Trovatore."
(This was written before the nomin-
alton was made-and if the prophecy
fails we shall kill it in the proof:)
Wilson has no more chance than a
cottontafl rabbit. The man who placed
him in nomination wound up with
a bunch of poetry.
Although it is the closed season on
oysters, the delegates should not suf-
fer for want of sea food. 1t appears
restaurants were full of soft shelled
crabs.
A new York man lost a ten dollar
bill when same blew out of his hand
on Broadway. And although many
tens are blown on Broadway every
minute-some cook correspondent
sent the one incident out as a news
item.
wheeze while off the job, and usually
make note on the corner of the
handiest envelope. Other day we
thought of reasonably good one, and
made a note. The note says: "Jwft
mnx. Ltm?" or something like that.
No one could read it after it got cold
and it is cold
One may observe that a southern
delegate got on the Job with dog
that it was not the horn of one of
the famous horned dogs of the
south, but merely a cow-horn, con-
verted into an alleged musical in
ers convey to their wandering dogs
the idea that it is time to quit and
come home to breakfast.
a fond parent may, by spending
$4,000 and a lot of time on his
daughters musical education, assist
her to a job at four beans per week
in a picture show. Then, of course,
she feels that she is self supporting,
and Great Help to the Family, be-
case she buys her own hose and
gum.
Colonel Roosevelt horned into the
Chicago convention without a permit
or reasonable excuse. In Baltimore
the only invader was General Dis
order. 1t does beat the band how these
characters crush in without
an invitation.
Hippocrates observed that life is
short-art is long" but neglected to
add that although art might be long,
the artist is usually short.
1t costs more to live now than it
did a hundred years ago, but those
who lived cheaper then are not on the
job to make comparisons now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Parents who never heard their chill
dren tell lies are deaf.
=
Exaggeration is a frailty that is COM
mon with most people.
X
Another disadvantage a drunken man
labors under is that he is never will
ing to admit he's in that condition.
u "
A man who marries a woman merely
because of her good looks. is in sorry
predicament when they begin to fade
n
Because a man neglects to pay his
bills that's no sign he has forgotten
them. It's impossible to forget a finan-
cial obligation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
DAFFYDHS
BIZ q. NoALL.

Nobody seems to think it strange
that newspaper which is black and
white can also be read.
extra! Extra All about a run on
the South Bank of the Kaw.)
If the end of a mans nose is gristle
is his backbone?
Get me an ak, WHEY. I want to xiii
that fly on baby's earl
When false reports are circulated
about Kansas crops does it make Sec
rotary Coburn?
CWatermelonsi Here's yer water
melons. And they're red to the rind.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IFrom the New York Press.l
1t doesn't take such a very loud voice to
shout down a big thought.
The more money we try to save nm
necessartes the more we want to spend
on luxuries.
A girl could learn in day how to mako
school.
The average mans idea of being fair
when he trades horse on another is 10
be sorry for him.
Next to her husband a woman can be
most suspicious about the veracity Of
scales when she is growing stout.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29

In some quarters, the idea seems to
prevail that in national political af-
fairs, the Republican party of Kansas
is superior in authority to the ma
tional Republican party. Congress
man Jackson presents the opinion that
the Kansas Republican party council
has the right and the power to declare
that the nomination of President Taft
as the regular Republican presidential
candidate is void.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29

William Jennings Bryan is one of
the few big men in this country who
is strong on the comeback" A few
political wiseacres insisted that when
Mr.. Bryan lost his fight against the
election of Judge Parker as temporary
chairman he had been crushed to
earth never to rise again as far as the
Democratic national convention of
1912 was concerned. But the big vic
tories he subsequently Won in the
convention are too numerous to re-
count
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29

Governor Aldrich of Nebraska, who
is high in the councils of the insur-
gent Republicans in that state, has re-
fused to join the Roosevelt bolt. He
has declined to accept a place on the
committee that has been appointed to
advise with Mr.. Roosevelt concerning
the organization of his new party.
Governor Aldrich announces that he
will stay regular" If Governor Stubs
continues III his present course he will
soon be a stranger in a strange land,
politically speaking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29

One Democratic precedent, at least,
was adhered to at the Baltimore con-
vention. A session of the all night
variety was staged. No big Democrat
&c pow-wow is considered a complete
success unless it INDUCES in an all
night festival.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
NOT so FOREIGN AS THEY

NOT so FOREIGN AS THEY SEEM.
In most OF the great cities of the
United States the proportion of the
population which is composed Of two
classes-the foreign-born and the ma
tive-born who are of foreign parent
age-looms tremendously large to the
average American who glances at the
official figures.
He reads that in New York this part
of the population is 1876 per cent; that
is equally great in Milwaukee; that
in Chicago the foreign-born and the
native-born children of foreign-born
parents constitute IT'S per cent of the
whole number of inha bitants, and that
in Cleveland the proportion is 74.S
per cent. He finds in Boston those
inhabitants who are foreign by birth
or by parentage are TAP per cent and
in Detroit "A per cent of the total.
with other large cities ranging down
from 71.3 per cent in Buffalo to 6s.e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[F'rom the Chicago Newsl
1t takes a man with lots of nerve TO
call a woman's bluff.
The average man would rather be calico
down than shown up
A woman never measures her years by
the number of her birthdays.
Many an aspirant occupies the political
short on weights and measures.
Much of mans interest in. woman is due
to his inability to understand. her.
Many an spirant occupies the political
grave he dug for the Other fellow.
The only embarrassment the average
man ever feels is of the financial brand.
woman will acknowledge gray hairs
before she will the years that bring them
Vaudeville shows were possibly invented
in order to make people enjoy grand opei
for a change.
It's all right to love your neighbor-but
don't invest in the questionable mining
stocks he wants to sell.
After a man has been compelled to ca
his words and swallow his pride. he
hasn't much appetite for anything else.
How woman does enjoy meeting
man she hasn't seen for twenty years and
have him say: why, you don't look
day older than you did the last time we
met"
A New York judge went over to Ire
land recently and met the brother OF
Tom Costigan. well known district
leader in one wing of the Democracy.
The Judge told Toms brother in Ire
land all about what a great man TOR
had become, about his popularity and IN
fluence. devotion to politics. The brother,
instead of sharing the judges en-
go.'' said ''Tom's' brother, please sat
isfy me on one point. Isn't all this at
tention to politics interfering with my
brothers business ?"-Argonaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
ENCOURAGE HIS GOOD TRAITS.

There are those who can see no
good in the boy who las acquired
some bad habit, however trivial it may
be. His fault overshadows all the
good points that can possibly be mus
tered in his favor. He may be kind
and generous to an exceptional degree,
but now and then he uses a profane
word. He may be good-hearted, but
he has been known to smoke cigar
cites. He may be perfectly depend
able, but he has a passion for playing
keeps in marble time. These things
in the eyes of some people become
serious sins which totally eclipse the
good points in his character.
1t is an open question how We may
eliminate these objectionable traits
most effectually. A thousand rene
dies have been proposed. o. E. Crook
er in writing on this subject in Farm
and Home. says one thing, however, is
certain-punishment of an extreme
sort frequently brings no other result
than stubborn willfulness. In the
same way, constant nagging of the
person at fault usually results in lit
tie more than a fit of bad temper on
the part of the one We would help.
Oftentimes a better way is to en-
phasize the good qualities that we
find in the one with whom we have to
deal. Let the offending one know that
we admire some good trait in his char
acter. He will then naturally desire
that we find everything about him
worthy of admiration and will strive
toward that end. The most unman-
ageable individual in a group. of a
dozen mischievious boys was once
transformed in a single week by giving
him an important duty to perform, and
making him and the rest of the group
feel that he was the one boy in the
lot who was most to be depended upon
to do it. Emphasizing a good trait in
his character was the means of gradu-
ally eliminating many Objectionable
ones.
Seldom is it that we may not sue
coed far beyond our expectations after
this fashion. Judicious encourage
ment, if we begin early enough, will
work more wonders than any alchemy
of which we know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
KANSAS COMAERT
THE KANSAS wEATHER


W nateVer else might be said of 9TH
sr states and communities. in their
FAVOR, still more can be found to say
LOT Kansas in this year of the Lord.
ana one of the things that should
nave special mention is the weather.
since the frontier was driven back to-
ward the horizon and the buffalo gave
way to evidences of civilization many
remarks have been made of the wealth.
er- Some were pertinent and often
pointed and the different qualities az
the Kansas brand have been published
to the limits of the globe Some oe
these things, said in the hurry of con-
Versation, probably were not so favor
able to Kansas as they should have
Deen But this year it is different The
Kansas weather is as mild as the song
OF oluebfrd, as balmy as the breath
Oh an angel. 1t is superb. There are
no days that come so hot that you for
get your raising. The nights are as
cool as the fables that come from the
mountain Businesses of Colorado. 1t
IS cool enough to sleep under a
planket any night. 1t is so much diff
asreht from year ago that one de-
I les 70 forget Kansas has surprised
.IerseI most of the spring and all of
tne summer. There were showers
When needed, and if there was a de-
sire Tor rains, they also come with
re ana 1ury. If the sun was want
ca the clouds moved away and the
earth was bathed in the warmth that
i!dhes the corn grow. Refreshing
IIehts nave been followed by perfect
99aSs ana the human being was fitted
LOT the labor that come to his hand.
rms is the year to forget all of those
Things you might have thought of the
Kansas winds in the past and the Kan
sas cry Gays or years ago and keep in
touch with what is going on right now.
To-Day. 1t is weather to talk about to
your friends. to write about to the old
IoIks IN the east and to wish for. for
Hutchinson News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29

One objection to allowing indi-
viduals TO avenge their wrongs by
murder is that the storie-; told of the
events which lead up to homicide
must always be one-sided. as far as
hearing the dead mans version is con-