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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
QUAKER MEDTTATToNs.
Iron the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record
The bigot is never as big as he feels
A rose by any other name would have
its thorn.
The good fellow seldom makes a model
husband.
It's generally the smallest men who
have the most colossal nerve
We all get our share of luck, but some
of us get 1t in the neck.
It doesn't seem quite romantic that love
stories should be written for money.
The kleptomaniac and the amateur pho
tographer both take things that don't be-
long to them.
Matches are not made in heaven; Meth
er are fire extinguishers made in the
other place
1t isn't liberal education that promp.s
a woman to give her husband a piece Of
her mind.
''AH the world loves a love-." quoted
the Wise Guy. And pity is akin to love,
added the Simple Mug.
We can all be thankful for what We
have. but few of US consider that We
ought to be thankful for what we haven't
Blobbs-tGuzzler doesn't talk much. but
he seems to absorb great deal" SIop IS
Yes, he never opens his mouth except
to take something in
He-"Ot, don't mind an occasional tifr
In fact, a lovers quarrel is a good thing
She-'sYess it generally shows who's GO
ing to be the boss afterward.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
says UNCLE CIV

Fame is a desert cloaked in mirage
it looks fair only from afar. AS you
approach the angle of vision changes,
the pleasing illusion disappears and
the bare, ugly reality stares you in the
face. Fame never yet made a life
rich, even as a mirage makes no desert
to blossom as the rose.-s Both 3 are
pleasing but neither has substance.
The life that depends for its sweetness
upon the applause of the crowd is
desolate indeed.
1t is the function of fame to lead
men on to high deeds. But, paradox
icallv, the deed itself is the reward,
not what others may say of it. For
to him who has attained there is moth
ing in life so little worth while as ap-
plause. If one is big enough to de-
serve it, one has no need of it. Ones
thoughts are upon weightier things
things of substance rather than of
shadow.
He who steps at last into the field
of the vision, finds only sands a little
hotter. rocks little )leaker, sun
shady woodland and magnificent cities
not a trace. These things, he knows,
were delusions-the trumpet call OF
fame, heard at it's source, is blaring
noise of small voices, ugly in their dis
cord.
So the wise man who attains the
goal of his dreams knows the clamor
for what it is, faces the desert for
what it always has been, and hugs to
his heart the comforting thought: Il
have done WELL And woe to him that
cannot thus find solace in the hour of
his disillusionment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCEIIsCH GLOBE.

All kinds of perfume, including gasoline,
is higher.
The brotherhood of man is like a town
without a liar; it amt
In most cases. a youngsters memory
dates back to his first circus
Like the publication of the same name.
life is regarded as joke book by some
people
Don't become so interested in Great
Work that you neglect to do the chores
around home.
A strong man sometimes weeps, but not
on an occasion when swearing will serve
his purpose.
The thinness of the "enticing costume
of woman" as subject of conversation
and otherwise, is evident.
The trouble with the psychological mo
ment is that it wears gum shoes and muf-
flers, and often gets by you.
There is certain amount of anarchy in
most men when things don't go to suit
them, which is pretty generally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
ny THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARsONA

All of Bill Films sub contractor
! are wearing stripes, but Bill, being al
| the head of the grabit ticket, is not
Only Only ahead his per cent of 500
puiS Ree-form Movement. The moral
seems to be: To get the best of ev-
erything outside of the gray walls,
avoid per cent of any graft which
! Paul Mulvane's favorite open air
sport is cracking mud saucers and
local records. Up to a late hour TINS
his recreation had been confined to
the open air. She reports that all the
monograph records and all the sau-
GERS are still intact.
Weather correction: ''Sunshiny''
Flora neglected to observe that n
heavy frost fell upon the county court
house Tuesday afternoon.
When the campaign opened, Stubs
was using the -thuh-pee-pu l-rule'
slogan to a fare-yeweI1- Later. after
the wop districts began to give a
Stubs majority of seven or eight, ne
decided that the dee-stricts of this
gee-reat state should be decided by
The Pee-puTs providing, the
Pee-pul gave him the best of 1t. Still
later he decided, after discovering
that the Other Man had popular
preference al formulated by a hard
shell Republican majority of Years
ago.
One. or hawf dozen. for that MAJ
ter, may remember that Hon. Curtis
dared Ros. Stubs to submit this
question to a popular vote. StubDs
waited three weeks before answering,
and, in the meantime, had utilized
over 100 state-paid employees in
gathering statistics. The answer was
a dissertation on Saltrisin bread, or
some equally important state or ma
tional question.
Woman's only advantage is her
ability to think to remember Wo-
man wins, not because of superior
mental equipment. but because she
can remember mans best arguments,
(after he has exhausted and forgotten
them,) and spring the same after said
man is too tired to keep it up.
Matt weightman got fewer than
offer is that Mats friends got so
DANCED tired of electors that they for
got to vote the county ticket. This ex-
cuse is for the voters-not for the can
didate in question.
1t had been reported that the Mex
lean rebels are filled with hatred
The half baked Mexicans who infest
Topeka are ignorant, but not one of
them would give it such black name.
Here. the Mexicans refer to it as
"buze," "Aguadiente," ''e-wus-kee-
kee'' and "niggrwislIy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
AYHAWKER JOTy

Probably the rains that fell recent
| 1y at Dust Corner, Cove county, were
| greatly appreciated.
| Neither does it necessarily follow tina
Charley Fix of Back and Forth, But
Ter county, is always getting into one
| In spite of the rapid strides in avia-
ton, remarks the Hiawatha News-Deni-
ocrat. it is doubtful if our castles il
| the air are any more accessible.
Dave Break was attending to 4
| threshings engine which exploded neal
Peabody the other day, and then sons
! folk insist there is nothing in a name
| Attention is called by the Ravens
the emperor of Japan died on July 81
the news of his death was printed III
the Kansas afternoon papers of July
20.
A social note in the Little Soldier
items in the Mayetta Herald: John Tay-
lor takes his chum, Dirty Dick to
dances for Dick is an expert caller
You have to show Dick for he's from
Missouri.
Chas Ensign thinks we owe hirl
something for the saving rains thst
came the past few days, says the Blue
Rapids Times. He spent three days
Eirrigating his sweet potato field and
gave it a good wetting and then the
rains came.
Doc ROBINSON, WnOm the AICAISOli
Globe frequently describes as the town
drunkard, appeared before Police
Judge church White the other morning
on the same old charge, reports tina:
paper You have been here twice be
fore. and twice I have sent you To
JAIL said the judge: Have you any
thing to say why 1 should not senI
Won there again?" Then Doc came back
with this: Il have scruples against \
third term, is the only statement L WISH
to make Doc was discharged.
on a north Lyon county farm the
other day, a perfectly respectable milk
COW of irreproachable habits and cir
curlspect demeanor turned UP in the
corral at milking time one evening
with a handsome Whitefaced calf run
ming by her side, relates the Emporla
Gazette. The family admired the calf
in extravagent terms, and consloerec
that it had done its dutys The next
evening when the COW appearea III ~ IN
corral, the old man of the family took
a glance at the calf, batted his eyes
I.apidly. gulped hard, and then raced
to the house. Ed, he said to MS
son-irl-law, in a voice shrill with ex-
1iternent. wasn't that dom calf of
Mike" replied the son, as he Joined
the perspiring old man in a chase
ba ok to the corral. There both of them
stared hard, for the calf by -
Sukey's'' side undoubtedly WIS red all
over The family pondered the matter
deeply in general council, without haV-
ing explained the phenomenon, and the
next morning turned out the cow IS
usual When the old mixer blew into
the milking lot that evening, the OLD
Gent turned purple in the face, exhib-
tied signs of deliriuma tremens, and his
sounded as if it had been run
through a food chopper. For the calf
NV the cows side was whitefaced.
Then a party of investigation was or
sanized, and it was found that NOld
Sukey'' was the mother of twin calves
and for some reason, known only to
the bovine mind, insisted on hiding
away one of the calves in the pasture
on alternate nights. But the head of
the family has not recovered from the
shock to his senses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
EVENING Chat
By RUTH CAMERON.

Did you know that cerise and purple
were an exquisite color combination?
! I never knew it before, but 1 have just
acquired that information, and 1t is such
a surprise to me that 1 want to share 1t.
| 1t was supplied to me by a young friend
| of mine who has reputation for good
dressing, and was impaired apropos of a
| large hat, composed chiefly of purple VIC
! lets and trimed with two cerise plumes.
commented upon the hat as an outrage
! of good taste, and my companion seemed
most surprised. why. I think that's
purple are all right together this year.
What, wonder mas the year 1872 done
to deserve that laws of nature should be
| must have happened. Last year and for
ever before, cerise and purple was COM
bination to make even the least aestheti:
shudder. This year it produces hal
mony.
Now please do not conclude by my in
ability to admire this combination that
am a dowdy- minded person who does mol
like stylish things. / think 1 appreciate
n truly stylish hat or gown as much as
anybody, and I realize that the wand Ct
stance, 1t can make bath towel desirable
| Material for gown. But this l MAINTAIN
that there are some immutable facts
and conditions which even the DEGREES II
fashion cannot change.
For instance, I do not think that any
thing make cerise and purple har-
monte.
And again. ! refuse to be convinced.
when I am told that an indecently peek
not think that even the dictates of fash
ion can make in1modesty, modest.
Yet, again. when 1 go to buy china ana
am told that octagonal dishes are the
prettiest thing nowadays, l beg to dis
agree Despite the shop girls emphatic
assurances, I still remember Curved IS
the line of beauty. straight is the line of
duty" and prefer to have the dishes / am
to live with for the next ten or twenty
years exhibit the lines of beauty
Yet one more example When 1 see
very thin woman accentuating her thi;i-
ness by dressing in indecently skinny
gown and wearing. perhaps no petticoats
at ALL I cannot think that even the tact
that thinness is stylish this year makes
her conduct good taste or her appearance
attractive.
Fashion is a wonderfully powerful force.
and there are undoubtedly many things
which it can influence but there are also
many laws of good taste, of artistic har-
nony. and of decency, with which not
even the most emphatic demands of fash
ion should interfere.
In other words, there are some things
which Cannot possibly be right, proper Or
beautiful this year. any more than they
have been for the last million years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
a CITY STREET.

A CITY STREET.
they took few old bricks
And they took a little tar,
With various ingredients
Imported from afar.
They hammered it and rolled it,
And then they went away
They said they had a pavement
That would last for many day.
But they came with picks and smote il
To lay a water main.
And then they called the workmen
To put it back again.
To run a railway cable
They took it up some more,
And then they put it back again
Just where it was before.
They took it up for conduits
To run the telephone,
And then they put it back again
AS hard any stone.
They took it up for wires
To feed the 'lectric light,
And then they put it back again,
Which was no more than right
Oh, the pavement's full of burrows,
There are patches everywhere;
You'd like to ride upon it,
It's very handsome pavement,
A credit to the town,
But they're always diggin' of it up
Or putin of it down.
Quoted in Congressional Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
LENGrHEN THE TERMS.

Now that candidates have been
nominated by both the Democratic
and Republican parties for the legis-
lature in the several senatorial and
legislative districts, 1t would not be
bad plan for their constituents to
talk over with them the advisability
of taking the steps necessary to
lengthen the terms of county and
state offices to four years. This
much-needed reform can only be
brought about through an amendment
to the constitution. That will take
some time, even IL it is brought about
as expeditiously as possible. The leg
islature will first have to pass a reso-
luton providing for the amendment
of the constitution in this particular.
That amendment will have to be sub
mitted to the voters at the succeeding
general state election. The time for
the change will have to be fixed at a
date that will not interfere with the
incumbency for which any state or
county officer has been elected. If
the necessary resolution was enacted
at the coming session of the leg1s-
lature, and voted favorably upon by
the people, it would be two years from
next January, and possibly year or
two longer, before the plan could be
put In working order. Therefore I'M
der the most favorable circumstances,
the accomplishment of this reform is
considerably in the distance. And
this makes it imperative that no more
time should be lost in starting it on
its way.
It is difficult to figure out any Sc
rious objections that can be raised to
- -
prevailed inKansas from time inmem-
memorial. state or county officer is
almost always given a second term.
There need be no fear that if such Of
ficers were given a four year term 1t
would be impossible to get rid of one
that might prove false to his trust.
Ample provision could be made for
the recall of both state and county
officers. The recall is a proposition
to which both of the political parties
in Kansas are now committed. so that
it will be in working order anyhow, N
to lengthen terms of office should
not be acted on favorably by the Leg
islature and endorsed by the, people. |
There can be no doubt of the adj |
vantages of this proposition to the |
p6Opi6, anu even 70 the OIIlCe seek
ers. Under present conditions the po-
litical pot is kept boiling incessantly |
in Kansas. With city, county, and |
state elections following closely on |
each others heels, the political game |
has come to be nuisance to the |
countless people of the state who have /
important matters of their own to at
tend to without having to give AMI
ear all the time to the pleadings of
those who would serve them in pub
lie office. Not only that, but this IS
about the only political reform ever
suggested that will actually save mon
ey for the taxpayers. 1t will cut out
once every two years the cost of the [
expensive primaries and the subsa
quent election. This is a saving that
would be worth while. But this feat
1re is really Incompatible to the one
that will rid the people of the annoy /
lnce that is now thrust upon them
year in and year out by the primary
and election campaigns which follow
each other in quick succession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few of the jokes that are told deserve
the laughs they get.
4
Not so many people realize the value
of money until they haven't any.
.:
Look around a bit before you COM
plain too much about your lot in life.
If you want most things done well,
you'd better engage the services of
those who are expert at doing them.
n
What has become of the old-fashioned
parents who passed on the suitability
of the young men paying attentions II
their daughters?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09

Loyalty abide by their choice. Then he
took the platform that had been pre-
pared by the committee on resolutions
and rewrote most of it according to his
own fancies. After he had completed
this labor he called the committeeman
together and had them endorse his
platform activities as their own. No,
indeed: There was nothing that sa-
vored of bossism in connection with
the. conduct of the Bull Moose conyen-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
Nnrl,s Hard at sol.

'I hope they won't pass law limit
ing me to eight hours work a day,
said Sir william Crookes. o. M, the
discoverer of thallium, the radiometer,
radiant matter, the genesis of ele-
ments, and the spinthariscope-to
mention only a few Of the notable con-
tribu1ions to scientific research during
the mast so years. He had complete d
the eightieth year of an extraordinary
full and active life, and there was an
alertness about the sparely built figure,
the searching eye, and the intellectual
forehead that emphasized the force OF
his words.
II consider" said the wonderful
octogenarian, that a good deal of my
lived so long. Supposing I had started
when I did. and had gone on with
scientific work for 20 or 40 years, and
then died. should have done nothing
like so much. Every ten years has
given some addition to my knowledge"
So long ago as 1892 Sir William
Cookies was foretelling wireless teleg-
raphy, and even at that day he talked
learnedly of overcoming difficulties
with regard to want of secrecy.
Tin some parts of the human BRAIN
he said then and reiterated lately,
may Turk an organ capable of trans
uniting and receiving other electrical
rays of wave-lengths hitherto unde-
tected by instrumental means. These
may be instrumental in transmitting
thought from one brain to another"
the need of fixing the nitrates in the
atmosphere if posterity is not to run
the risk of starving The wheat
growing land in the world he said,
lis being gradually used up. The ac-
emulation of nitrates in the soil is
diminishing. and artificial manure is
required. The amount of wheat per
acre over the world is about 12h
bushels; by manuring artificially with
nitrates we can get up to Is and 30
bushels; but. of course, that costs
money. If we are only going to get
1919 bushels per acre all over the
world we shall not have wheat enough
to supply the wheat eaters of the
world in about a generation.
1.-The only chance of avoiding trou- |
BILE is by increasing the fertility. The |
Chile n1trates are becoming exhausted, |
and the only way I can see is by fixing |
the atmospheric nitrogen. The best
way of doing that. in my opinion, is |
by passing a high tension electric cur
rent through the air. If We can get |
nftrates from the atmosphere we can |
go on increasing the fertility of the
land to almost any extent /
Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
NO RECLAIM I 1000. OOO Acres.

The Egyptian government has begun
one of the most costly and comprehen-
sive drainage projects for the rec1ama-
ton of lands ever attempted by any
government in the world. Its object
is to make cultivable 100000 acres
of fertile land in the delta of lower
Egypt. 1t is estimated that the work
will require four years and $15,00O,-
600 will be required for drainage, and
a like amount for irrigation. Ninety
per cent of the land redeemed will be
owned by the government The prin-
cipal object of the project is to redeem
a fertile, but now worthless region of
the delta under cotton cultivation
The ArgOnaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09

Neither will so very many of the citi-
zens of these United States have to pay
any attention to the warning issued by
the treasury department at Washington
that close watch must be kept on
so bills, because many cou-Eerfeits of
one issue of this brand of paper money
are circulating about these days Most
people would have apoplexy if they
came in close personal contact with a
$40 bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
HUNOR OF THE Dry

city Impressions.-"What impressed vo,,
most most IN our great city?" asked the NATIVE
Wen, replied the man from the sn1',Ii
town, I've been here for a week ana 7
noticed that nobody wears sIIndsII of a1t6
on Sunday."-Cincinnati Enquirer
Actor-I can bring tears to the eves =,
the audience. Theatrical Manager-Huhi
audience.-Puck the
MIS-. Galley Gas Galley arrives home AZ
In the morning)-Well! What in the work
reminded you TO come home at all? GaieS
-ihe game was called on account of daS;.
light, my Granddaughter
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dare Won
ask mrs Bullion to a one-course luncheon
Batde-She won't know it, She's
Fletcherite, and by the time she has Tin
ished she'll have to move on to some
o'clock tea.-Harper's Bazaar.
Henry Watterson. in an interview ~
w washington, praised the American jour
nahst OF the old school THE Journalist
OF the old school," said Mr.. Watterson
with his hearty laugh, was remarkable
above all things for versatility He nm
like your college bred journaIist of TODAY
never knew, when he turned up at the
office, whether he'd be handed a mop. ar
opera ticket or a pair of shears-and he
was equally at home with all three
Argonaut.
Mrs. Gotham-This paper says a familiar
face and form may be recognized at from
fifty to 100 meters. Mr.. Gotham-Yes, I
Statesman
Mrs. Gotham-Don't you think these
S doughnuts are an Improvement on the
dear; the holes are larger.-YonkerT
Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
HoprE NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IFrom the New York Press.1
We hunt for our successes; our failures
find
Reforming a man is lot harder than
marrying him to do it,
Most people think they are deeply in
earnest when they are only wildly ex-
cited.
It's the girl out walking with a man
that has to stop to kiss and hug every
baby she meets.
man can think he's dying to take his
wife to the theater if she's away for the
summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09

An opinion from Booker T. Wash
ington, a dinner guest at the White
House during the Roosevelt regime
would be especially interesting just
now concerning the refusal of the Bull
Moose convention to permit negroes
from the south to participate in it's
deliberations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09

And the chances are that Colonel
Roosevelt would have been nominated
just the same by the Bull Moose con-
vention even if Henry Allen had not
made that speech seconding the pre-
sentation of the colonel's name for the
consideration of the delegates assem-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09

Uncle Sans prison at Leavenworth
now has the reputation of being the
best prison in the world. However it
isn't likely that there will be any par
ticular rush on the part of the people
to enjoy its numerous advantages. In
cidentally. it is one of the best places
in the world to keep out Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09

Nor do the Roosevelt enthusiasts in
Kansas yet know who were the 20 dele
gates and 20 alternates who represent
ed them at the convention of the Roose-
welt party. if there happened to be any
such representation at all.