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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
FROM OTHER PENS
LOOK BEFORE you LEAP.


The back to the land" movement
| though 1t is rather slow in getting
started, is attracting tie attention Of
a good many people. The idea of
living in the country and keeping "a
cow, hen and a bee' is captivating
to many city people. The attention
of the federal secretary of agriculture
has lately been called to the increas-
ing need for disseminating informa-
ton which will be helpful to the thou
sands of city people and others who
are being encouraged to put their saw
ings into various land selling,
chard growing, crop producing prop
ositions. Owing to the extensive adj
vertiSing propaganda, many people
with little or no knowledge of agrl-
cultural matters are being led to in
vest money in projects which by no
reasonable chance can ever be made
to pay the profits claimed for them.
Secretary Wilson has issued instruc-
lions that full data be gathered in or
der that the department through its
publications and correspondence shall
be in direct position to aid those who
have been attracted by the promise
of good investments but who would
like to obtain reliable facts before
taking action. We think it would be
the part OF prudence for those in
experienced in agriculture who wish
to enter any part of the agricultural
field to obtain such facts as the de-
partment of agriculture may be able
to provide through the system above
referred to. There are plenty of swim
dies into which unwary city folk may
be entrapped by those interested in
the sale of rural property-Rocheste
Union and Advertiser.
OH JOY! SOUND-PROOF WALLS.
In the American quarter OF the city
of Berlin a musical conservatory is to
be erected with sound-proof walls, so
that pupils undergoing instruction in
the art of piano playing shall not
drive the neighbors crazy with their
din. People the world over who are
nervously sensitive to dissonant sounds
will heartily approve the idea and
hope for its general adoption. Much
has been said and written in praise of
the soothing influence of music, but
there are many individuals so consti-
tuted that it is the reverse of delight
full to them to hear hour after hour
sometimes at the time of night when
they would WOO sleep-the din of a
piano. There may be a
soothing influence of music, but II is
not brought. out by beginners practic-
ing the scales nor by conviviaI parties
playing ragtime. Life in cities the
world over would be improved for
people with trained ears and sensitive
nerves IL the principle were recognized
that perpetual piano playing consti-
tutaes a nuisance not to be tolerated
unless conducted within sound-proof
wallS-Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

IFrom the Chicago News.1
All the world loves cheerful flatterer.
A double wedding is one kind of a four
INLAND tie.
Many a man looks like a statesman who
is not guilty.
The man who has something to sell is
always optimist.
A truthful fisherman always knows
where to draw the line.
No amount of culture will make a man
stop snoring in his sleep.
Men may be born modest, but women
have to acquire all they get.
When a mans conscience troubles him
he thinks he has indigestion.
Perhaps Lots wife was turned to salt
because she was too peppery.
Perhaps there is no marriage in heaven
because the angels know better.
jealous woman enables his Satanic
majesty to take q vacation now and then.
Every time a girl sees a handsome
young man she wonders whose sweet
heart he is.
If some people have any good in them
they evidently keep it bottled up pretty
tight
A woman can easily win in any kind of
an argument with man If she knows
lust when to turn the briny flow.
man thinks a girl Is perfectly proper
who refuses to kiss him-because he can't
think of any other reason why she should
refuse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
HUAOR or THE DIP

I've got an hour or two to kill. I wish
knew what to do" lust go over and
ask Brown how the new baby is eetting
along. detroit Free Press.
Cook-Why didn't you come last Mon
day for yer dinner? Beggar-Why, L
heard that you were washing and YOUR
mistress was doing the cooking-Fliegende
Blaetter.
my life. She eproachfully--But don't
you think, darling, that you will be ablS
to love me more later on?-L1fe.
tell you what I'll do What's that
dad?" "Il1 let you have the sawdtIst 10
play circus with. ashington Herald.
I'D like to know why you ask for money
some about once month, I supnose. -" ''.e
Houston Post
And where did you spend your two
weeks?' Sitting in a hotel barber chair.
The barber was persuasive and I let him
give me his entire nst."-PittsburE Post.
THE object Of the average expiorer
seems to be to acquire enough material
aim when she explores my pockets -.
Louisville Courier-Journa1.
Passer-by (to the stout party who has
ice you slipped on? Stout Party-No, Won
fool 1t was a sheet Of sandpaperi-Bos-
ton Transcript.
who tries to be cheerful. IT Thoroughly
agree with you" replied Mr.. Growcner
And what's more, / think they are 70
ing TO be."-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
GEMS FROM TIE PoETs.


Ine Sons of Mary seldom bother. for ti,ey
| nave inherited that good part,
! bul. the Sons of Martha favor their
/ motner OF the careful soul and the
AND because she lost her temper once
ana because she was rude to the
Lord, her guest,
Her sons must wait upon Mary's Sons
world without end, reprieve or rest.
1t Is I'll, their care in all the ages to take
the buffet and cushion the shocks;
1t Is their care that the gear engages; it
Is their care that the switches lock
II is their care that wheels run truly; 1t
is their care to embark and entrain.
rally, transport and deliver duly the Sons
OF Mary by land and main.
They say to the mountains BE We re-
HmovedE They say to the lesser
Under their rods are the rocks reproved-
they are not afraid of that which is
Then do the hilltops shake to the summit;
then is the bed of the deep laid bare,
That the Sons of Mary may overcome it,
pleasantly sleeping and unaware.
They finger Death at their gloves end
when they piece and repiece the
He rears against the gates they tend; they
feed him hungry behind the fires,
Early at dawn ere men see clear they
stumble into his terrible stall.
And hale him forth like battered steer
To these from birth is relief forbidden;
from these till death is relief affair
They are concerned with matters hidden
under the earth line their affairs are.
The secret fountains to follow up waters
withdrawn to restore to the mouth,
Yea, and gather the floods as in a cup,
and pour them again at city's
drouth
They do not preach that their God will
rouse them little before the nuts
work loose;
They do not teach that His pity allows
them to leave their work whichever
they choose.
AS in the thronged and the Hghtened
ways, so in the dark and the desert
they stand,
Weary and watchful all their days, that
their brethren's days may be long in
the land.
Lift We the stone, or cleave the wood. to
make a path more fair or flat,
Lo, it is black already with blood some
Son of Martha spilled for that.
Not as a ladder from earth to heaven,
not as an altar to any creed,
But simple service, simply given to His
own kind, in their common need.
And the Sons of Mary smile and are
blessed-they know the angels are on
their side.
They know in them is the grace con-
fessed, and for them are the mercies
multiplied.
They sit at the feet, and they hear the
word-they know how truly the
promise runs.
They have cast their burden upon the
Lord, and-the Lord He lays 1t on
Martha's Sons.
-Rudyard Kipling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

When a cue breaks does the bill
lard ball?
(Nix on such comedy, lads. Her
mother was a LADY,
If a carpenter picked out a piece
of free land would it be right for a
blacksmith to file on it?
(AWl Tell it to Sweeney
If there was an earthquake in
southern Arkansas would it make
Little Rock7
(And the professor will now ex-
anime the seismograph.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

| 1t is often most interesting to OBJ.
serve how easily a clever child car
manage it's parents. Some of our mod.
ern children are adopts in all the
branches of the art, but one particular
trek which almost every child knows
is that of distracting his parents at
! tention from a command which he
does not wish to obey.
| A little neighbor of mine nominally
gees to bed at half past seven o'clock
1 happened to be calling there the other
| evening at about that hour and wit
messed little duel. the like of which
evidently takes place quite regularly.
The clock in the hall chimed half past
seven and a worried expression crossed
my hostess face. ''WiI you excuse me
for a moment, while I start Marjorie
for bed?' she asked. OF course I ac-
qUiesced.
Come, Marjorie" she called. ITS
half past seven and you know you
didn't get to bed until nine last night
or the night before. i want you to
start promptly tonight"
"Oh, mother" from Marjorie. please
les me sit up just a few minutes more.
want to finish this chapter"
mo, Marjorie, now please don't
tease. You know what you promised
ne last night"
Marjorie carefully marked her place;
locked outside the windows and caught
sight of the family cat outside on the
piazza. "Oh, mother, don't you want
me to get Tom in? You know you said
you didn't want him to stay out
inghts?"
well, you may, if you'll hurry"
weakened Marjorie's mother.
1t took ten minutes to bring Tom in,
to show him off and finally dispose Of
him on the couch.
Five minutes more were used in say
ing goodnight to me.
Again my hostess reminded Marjorie
that she had promised to start prompt
" tonight and this time arose to ac-
company her up the stairs. On the way
they passed the piano. Clever Marjorie
caught at the last straw to s1ve her
from the ignominy of sinking into OBJ
1ivion. "Oh, mother, I want to play
Miss Cameron my new piece" she said.
Maternal pride struggled with disci-
p1ine. Maternal pride won a quick
victory. Marjorie played that piece
and two others and artfully managed
to turn the conversation upon the COM
ing recital in which. to her mothers
vast satisfaction, she was to be the
youngest pupil and to play twice.
At eight twenty-five Marjorie actu-
ally started upstairs to bed.
Marjorie is certainly a very clever
little musician, but I should not adj
wise having her trained for that pro-
fession. 1 think it would be wiser to
have her prepare for a diplomatic ca
reer Women will probably have en-
tered diplomacy by the time she Is of
ge and she will surely make her mark
in 1t.
A word to the child who wants to
control his parents: Sulking will ac-
complish some good and teasing more, |
and there are a few parents who can
be managed by open disobedience. but !
the very best trek OF all. when you |
don't want to mind, is to distract your |
fathers or mothers attention: study ,
his or her weaknesses, and nine times
out of ten you can defer obedience in |
definitely, II not altogether escape IL. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

world, Americans would have been
among the first to rush to the front
with material financial aid for the
sufferers. No crops can be grown
this year in the flood-devastated re-
gions along the Mississippi. Hundreds
of men, women and children there are
in need of help. And little or no re-
Spouse to their appeals for assistance
is being given by their more fortunate
brethren in all other sections of the
land
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Does the general upward and on
ward movement of the convention suit
| crss Dave Mulvane
That. as we have heretofore pointed
out, being the only recourse you have
at this time.
of filming his wife for infractions of his
household rules, thereby exposed a
family secret: SHE had the money.
Otherwise, filming her would be about
as sensible as for the gent to get up at
midnight, steal money from one of his
pockets and put 1t in the other.
The student publication of the Uni
versity of Nebraska has been suppress
sed by prudish professors. So, owing TO
the poor circulation of said professors,
the circulation of the student publica-
ton will be very. vurry low.
Judge Litt1eford of New York favors
woman's suffrage on the grounds that
q woman can't be bribed with an ice
cream soda-which costs 10 cents; to
bride woman, one must use f1attery,
which doesn't cost a DANCED cent.
The sewer connections of the coli
seTm must be very bad. Bristow
couldn't get in, and he could pass with
ease through a sfx-inch pipe.
Roosevelt says he is the peoples
choice, and some people believe it. And
a New York doctor says he can cure
infantile paralysis by hypnotism, and
some people believe that.
When a clever woman sees a man
working himself into rage, she beats
him to it. and gets mad first.
The average man is honest, or thinks
he is, but when he gets a lead nickel
he saves it for either the church con-
tr1bution plate or the box on the P. A.
Y. E. street car.
A six-shooter is a deadly weapon
when it is loaded-and so is an automo-
b1le-when the chauffeur is loaded.
Lots Of people think they need SYM
pathy when what they really need is
ca1omel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
KANSAS COMAEKT

MARRIAGE FOR HEALTHY ONLY.
The probate judges of Kansas have
drafted bill that will be presented 10
the next legislature making health
eertincates legal requirement so
that the marriage OF the unfit can be
prevented. The minister will not
have to require or ask for health
certificates. It will be required before
license can be issued. The proceed
ure will be simple. Before applying
for license the couple contemplating
marriage will go to a reliable physi-
clan and be examined and the certi-
f1cates will be brought to the office of
the probate judge and fled with the
application for a license. The ex-
actions of these certificates win not
be severe. They will call for state
nlents regarding tuberculosis, cancer,
and few other diseases which tend
to break down the general health or
are regarded as loathsome or which
may have tendency to degeneracy.
The marriage of epileptics is prohib-
TIED in Kansas at the present time
Osborne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor do so many of the really wise
men look the part.
4
And the weather has a good deal to
do with a mans moods.
n
Some of the girls shouldn't forget
that leap year is half gone.
x
Great must be the joy with many
over the prospects for a poor picnic
season.
Any number of people are better
off and happier than they deserve to
be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subsca Sf,ers of tho state Journal
away from hoIT.c during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day TO any address at the rate OF
ton cenfs a week or thirty cents a
month (bE wall only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
ont OF town the state Journal Will be
70 you like a daily letter from nome.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Pres

from the New York Prcss.1
Father comes home to rest; mother
goes away to rest.
If a man has nerve enough to lie he
can always get the experience.
The most exciting thing to woman
about a letter she expects IS when it
doesn't come.
The average man can think he ought
TO get elected to office on the way mis-
whiskers grow
girl is so smart she can learn to be a
good dancer in a tenth. of the time it
takes her to learn to sew on button.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Topeka's ball team must be saved
to the city at any cost. 1t takes more
than a year or two to build up a win
ming team in league of the caliber
Of the Western. No bigger black
eye could be given to Topeka than to
lose it's ball team to another city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Three boys, each under ten years
old, having been arrested for rolling
on the New York Central tracks a big
boulder which came near wrecking
the train on which Colonel Roosevelt
travelled to Chicago, Director Nc
Kinley of the Taft forces is thereby
absolved from blame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

In the ranks of the Cuban revolu-
tionists, the generals appear to be
more numerous than the privates. And
that possibly explains why the fight
ing of the revolutionists has not been
more severe and effective. Generals
don't fight NOWADAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

A deliver into the musty ortho-
graphical archives has ascertained
that the word "blackguard' was orig
inally used to designate the coal man.
This may strike many folk as being
plausible but it must, be remembered
that at the period this word was coin
ed, there we're no natural gas men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Many of the prominent foreign dip
1omats who are spectators at the Chi
cago convention are probably thank
ing their stars that the national poll
tics in their native lands are conduct
ed on a much different basis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

An adjournment of the Republican
national convention is in order and
until the lost trunks of Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth have been re-
stored to her. They are filled with
clothes she was intending to wear at
the several sessions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Turn about is fair play. With Col
onel Bryan reporting the doings at
Chicago for a string of newspapers,
Colonel Roosevelt should do likewise
at Baltimore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Leahy has in his keeping an embossed
copy of Governor Stubs prophecy OF
a few weeks ago that Mr.. Taft's mans
would not be presented to the conven-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

If Colonel Roosevelt's forces had
had charge of the distribution of the
tickets to the convention it is to be
presumed that all of them would have
been given to Taft followers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Mayor Gaynor seems to have emerg-
ed from the dark horse class
among the Democratic presidential
possibilities. An elaborate brochure,
profusely illustrated, telling the story
of his life and works has just been is
sued by the Democratic association
of New York for Gaynor for presi-
da,f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

If President Taft were as vindictive
as some of his opponents he would
not have vetoed the army appropria-
ton bill for the mere purpose of saw
ing the military head of General
Wood. The general is one of Colonel
Roosevelt's particular pets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Governor Stubs probably has the
idea that the Kansans at Chicago who
are booming him for the vice presi
Dental nomination are being egged
on by Senator Curtis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

And the evidence seems preponder-
ant that the Western Union Telegraph
company is engaged in wishing its
unsightly poles off Kansas avenue.
Let's see. Oh, yes, the removal of
these poles was ordered by the city
commission on January 1, or six
months ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

All of the dark horses being
trotted out for the Democratic presi-
dental nomination are more than
likely to run in the wrong direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

If a flood of the proportions of the
one which recently overwhelmed large
sections of the Mississippi valley had
occurred in any other section of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

This voluntary dissolution of the
beef trust may be nothing more than
a convenient move to give the packers
some kind of an excuse to boost again
the price of their wares.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

81 wonder If your sister realizes,
Johnny, that during the last three months
I have spent many dollars in sweets on
her2' I'm sure she does. Mr. Sweetly;
that's why she's not letting on she's en-
gagged to Mr.. Bigeer.'-New York Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal 10 member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganizatfon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Cries of fraud" and ''thievery" are
seldom uttered by men who are get
ting a fair and square trimming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
ny TIE WAY
By HARVEY PARsoNA

Does the general upward and on
ward" movement of the convention suit
YOU? And If it don't, why don't you
crss Dave Mulvane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

That, as we have heretofore pointed
out, being the only recourse you have
at this time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
OUR ABSENTEE GovrRNoR.

Gov. w. r. Stubs was one Of the
principal speakers at the celebration
of the centennial of Missouri at Kan
sas City recently. The peculiar part
of it is that our governor has time to
devote to speech making In other
states, but could not spare the time
to be present and fill his promise to
deliver an address at the recent dedi-
cation of the historic Pawnee Rock
Monument. How about that slogan
"A dollars worth of work for every
dollar paid to the state employees"
under the business administration"
the people are paying for 7-Kiowa
County Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19
MUCH MONEY IS NOT SUCCESS.

OUOIEoC.
Suppose man is putting $1,000 In
the bank every year. He works from
four in the morning until nine or ten
at night. No papers are taken, no
books read. Sunday is spent trying to
catch up odds and ends. Is this man
successful? Hardly. If you are feel
ing down hearted because you are not
making so much as your neighbor.
look around and see if you are not
more successful than he.-Kansas In
dustrialist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

Passer-by (to the stout party who n,
falIen)-Too bad, sir Was it a piece
ice you slipped on? Stout Party-No. v,
fool! 1t was a sheet Of sandpaperl2Bo
ton Transcript.