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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago NewsJ
Beware of barkless dogs and talkIes;
men.
The early frost catches the budding
dramatic genius.
If a man is a mistake, woman must be
an agreeable blunder-
A critic by any other name would be a
knocker just the same
Even a seIf-made man may have to de-
pend upon his wife to make him happy.
Love is blind-especially if the woman
in the case has more dollars than sense.
Most old bachelors are misunderstood
by women-for which they should oe
thankful.
The woman who uses an old stocking
for rat in doing up her hair is one kind
of a nature faker.
Dame Fortune isn't very much of a
flirt. She seldom smiles on a man unless
he gives her good deal of encourage
ment-
Many a man who talks like a war hero
gets his meek little wife to interview the
janitor every time he thinks it necessary
to registr a kick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

| Do you exist for your Louise or does
your house exist for you?
The other day 1 went to call on a
woman who has just moved into j
| beautiful new house. She has been
| planning and working for the change
| many years and it is indeed a hand
some building.
But 1 do not have any trouble to
keep from breaking the tenth com
niandment in my thoughts of her.
Indeed no. On the contrary 1 am sor-
~ for her.
For she is so obsessed by her worship
of that house that she exists to serve
! it instead of subscribing 1t to he"
pleasure and comfort, and making =
| real home of it.
Let me give you a few illustrations.
The bathroom in her new house, re-
fuse to call it a home--is exquisite. 1t
is all white and blue and the fixtures
arc copper. Now to keep these fix
lures bright, their owner says, takes
her exactly one hour and a half three
times a week. That's four hours and n
half a week And yet my friend said
regretfully, "Some lovely people calle1
or us when We first came but I sim
ply haven't had time to return their
call"
Again, there is brand new gas range
in the kitchen Tt has every conven-
fence of attachment that modern in
genuity can devise and it was abso-
lUtely spotless. MY friend is a notable
hoUsekeeper but the immaculateness of
this was wonderful even for her and
said so. "Wel. you see" she explained
EI hardly use it at all because I hate
to get it mussed up. I have my old
range down cellar and I do most of my
cooking there" And yet my hostess
told me she didn't know when she had
been so tired as this fall. She thought
it was the bad weather.
1t was a very warm day when
called, and yet not a window in any
OF the chambers was open. I'VE haven't
had the windows open any more then
VIC could possibly help this summer"
she explained. you know that let's in
the dust and this white woodwork soils
SO easily"
1t is a good thing to have beautiful
possessions but it is not good thing
to be possessed by them.
Perhaps you think I have been telling
of an exaggerated case. An extreme
case, I grant you, but ot an exagger-
ated one for every word is true.
Houses are meant for homes, not
fetishes. They are meant to live in. not
to be enSlaved by Few. women make
such slaves of themselves as this one
but many in greater or less degree put
the home above those who live in it,
Do you?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25

of him for me to believe that Jack Fort
was his friend For that reason ne
thought that he was justified in talking
about me. See the arbutus?"
They had gained the summit OF tue
slope and when she would have Withdrawn
her hand the man held it in both his OWL
Il said all those ugly things about you,
dear, when 1 waS-not myself. WIN You
forgive me? 1 think that have known
all the time that you were my destiny
love you. 1 want you to marry me. Have
1 a chance with you?" -,
L would have known that you were PM
if had remembered what Ellen Salc-
What did she say2"
''She said to know Phil is to love him:
What do you mean? I am so unworthy.
You are the only woman l ever met VINO
reminded me of my mother. That IS why
l want you So -,
Just as she helped your father through
difficulties to attainment, will you let me
try-to help you?"
And what she saw in pills eyes then
made her know that their path OF arbutus
led on to a land of enchantment ana nap
piness.-(Copyright, 1912, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25

Nashville. Tenn, 4S.9, Milwaukee 45-7-
By way of comparison, the death-rate
in European cities, similarly situated
is very low, Stockholm in 1910 having a
death-rate of typhoid fever of only LIZ
per 100, 900, Munich IA, Vienna 3.S, Lon
don 3.3. Hamburg, the highest, having
only Al. Thirty-three leading European
cities had, in 1910, a total death-rate
per 100, coo of typhoid fever of So, While
fifty American cities of 100000 or over
had an average death-rate from TINS
cause of 25 per 100, 900. After consider
ing the present conditions of our inter-
state waters, DR.. Mclaughlin concludes
that it is practically impossible to pre-
vent some degree of pollution of these
waters, and that with increase of popu-
lation this will become more difficult.
He therefore advises filtration or
other treatment of water-supply for our
cities. In order to protect the health
of the public, the water-supply must be
safe for 365 days in the year. Any
method of plant for publication must
be able to meet this test. In spite
of all methods of sewage disposal
and publication, city water-sup-
plies will occasionally become con-
taminated so that some method of
water publication which will secure
safe water for the people all the time
is necessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
says UNCLE CAV

Twenty years ago the hero of med
lclne, so far as the lay mind could
discern, was the man who cured dis
ease. Today he is the man who pre-
vents it. The man with the pill who
comes along to save something out
of the wreck isn't nearly so popular
d the man with the anti-toxin and the
sanitation expert. Which shows that
the world does move.
The spirit of the age is the attain
ment of health and efficiency through
the avoidance of error. The prin-
cfple applies not only to purely phys
itual affairs as well. Sometime since
We were wont to assume that life is
an unhappy moment between two
eternitieS, and seek for some sort of
etheralized nostrum which would cure
the woes from which we were sup
posed to be suffering. But we have
moved on a little. We've come to our
senses and realize that to be unhappy
is criminal, to be blue is insane. We
are taking less interest in cures ana
moro interest in prevention.
Yesterday every child was expected
to have the measles and to get over
it. Today we ventilate the school-
rooms and use individual drinking
cups Children don't have to have
the measles nowadays. Yesterday we
assumed that it was our lot to live in
a fog of woe, from which we miSht
emerge through the application of our
faVor1te cure-all. Today we Join the
Don't Worry Club and look for the
sunshine.
This mental attitude is making the
world happier. Because we are hap
pier we are Drawer. We are learning
to look life in the face without cring-
ing. We no longer account it misfor
tune to be born. Knowing that the
wilmer is a coward, it isn't popular
to brag of mental or spirit
ua1 ills. And it is surprising how
quickly these imaginary evils dis
when we no longer find a sym
pathetic audience for their recital
Copyright, 1912, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
POLLUTION OF WATERS.

Interstate waters are the source of
water-supply for many millions of
American people, and the number is
constantly growing. Sanitary condi-
tions in the drainage area of the Great
Lakes, the Missouri, the Mississippi, the
Ohio and other great American rivers
are becoming most important because
of the increased demands made on these
waters as source of public water-sup-
ply. With the increase in population.
there is an increase in the sewage pollu-
ton of these waters, as it has been a
common American custom for cities to
empty their sewage into lakes or rivers,
on account of the low cost of this
method of disposal. Until recently.
nearly all American cities situated on
great waterways furnished water to
their own citizens without filtration
and other treatment, and at the same
time discharged unpurified sewage into
the same water to pollute the water
supply of other cities situated below
them Under these conditions. says
DR.. Allen ]. Mclaughlin of the United
States Public Health Service, in a re-
cent issue of The Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, it is not
strange that a very high typhoid fever
rate prevails in these cities. DIR. Nc
Laughlin shows that the death-rate
from typhoid fever per 100, 900 of popu-
lation is very high in the cities located
on the Great Lakes and the large rivers
For instance. in 1910 Omaha had a ty-
phoid fever death-rate of S6.7 per 100.-
600, Minneapolis 5S.7, Kansas City 54.4.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
QUAKER MI3DTTATONs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Luck is toss-up with the dice of des-
tiny.
Contentment is a jewel that shines in
any setting.
The last thing in the world a man eX-
poets to do is to die.
Even a quarantine notice won't keep
the wolf from the door.
Many a fellow has avoided straitened
circumstances by being crooked.
Many a man who gets in the ground
floor never rises any higher.
Love may laugh at locksniths, but
Cupid can't possibly laugh in his sleeve
You can always save lot of time by
letting the other fellow have the last
word.
No. Maude, dear; a man doesn't have
to be an orator to take part in an
oratorio.
The average girl OF IS seems to think
men from falling in love with her.
SiIlicus-''That woman talks incessant-
ly.' Cynicus-"Oh, that is simply to dis
guise the fact that she has nothing to
say
do you think I can get any local colon
for my story in Philadelphia asked the
novelist ooh, yes. if blue laws and red
tape make local COLOR replied tie Phila-
delphian.
Two newsies had this conversation at
Ninth and Chestnut streets yesterday
afternoon: do you know what t'ink o
youse?" mo, but if it's what I t'in6
youse tink, I dare youse to say it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25

The theater of the war in the
Balkan peninsula is close to some of
the best known cities in the world.
The part of Turkey where the Mon
tenegrins are fighting is just across
the Adriatic, a comparatively narrow
sea, from Italy. Venice is not far dis
tant, nor is Trieste. The Servian
forces are in action a short journey
from Budapest, one of the greatest
and most splendid capitals in Europe.
The Greeks are engaged with their
ancient foes at a little distance from
Athens. All distances are small IN
Greece. And the Bulgarian army is
graphing with the Turks only few
hours ride fro--l Constantinople Itself
Yet it is extremely difficult to get
reliable news of the war. Both sides
censor strictly everything which goes
out over the telegraph wires. Neither
will tolerate reports of defeats War
correspondents can expect little COLI
sideration in the Balkans in obtaining
and sending news. They will be forced
to resort to methods which mean de-
lay and meager reports of current
events.
But because the field of operations
is so close to the frontiers of neutral
powers it will be difficult to suppress
news long, when great events take
place. If the positions of the hostile
forces change widely, the world will
soon learn of it, In fact, the entire
conflict can hardly be prolonged. Both
the Turks and their enemies lack
money for war carried over the win
ter. And the hatred on both sides is
so intense and the traditions of fight
ing between Christians and Moslems
are so sharp a spur that decisive re-
suits may be expected soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
FROM OTHER PENS
A REPoRTER,s PRIVILEGE.

Judge Turner, of the Milwaukee cir
cult court, has ruled that a newspaper
reporter is not compelled to disclose
the confidential sources of information
upon which he has based an article or
report. The decision will be generally
approved by those familiar in the
slightest degree with the processes that
converge in the gathering of news and
the making of newspapers. It happens
in cases innumerable that incidents and
events that should, in the interests OF
public policy, see the light of day are
suppressed because the man with the
information fears he will not be pro-
tected II he gives it. For example the
graft exposures and other publicity
chapters that have SO decisively purified
the public life of this country would
nave been almost an impossibility had
not the reporter been in the canacity
or privileged witness" In these DAVIS
OF lmpersonal journalism, the reporter
is an anonymous but an indfspensabIa
cog in the big news machine. The work
ne does, the developments he turns
UP are wholly the property of the
paper on which he is employed. II his
information is erroneous or his state
ments Hbelous it is the paper as "a
paper, and not the reporter that ;s
called upon to face the music. IT 1sed
- ne commonplace of daily Journal
ISM Ism TO nave some individual with q
1ancied outrage brush his Wav int .
newspaper office and demand the nan
or the reporter who wrote sucb an,I
such story, his intention being 70
get satisfaction from the writer in a
personal way. Such incidents are he
e3iI,lng rarer: The public is growing
euucdteu 10 the function of the nevvs
paper and its relation to the renovta,-
knowledge is becoming rather general
that the reporter who is not vvoTtb,, 80
confidence is not worthy of his nro,e9I
i ,,o al,,, Inc average man in public life
Is cognlzant of this fact. The TO- 90 -.
reporter who deliberately misre5re ~ r',e
OI ulstorts IS done. AS a rule. tbera -
no more conscientious or painsts1t j,e
LII ,rodesslon, considering the tense nreg9
Rnt ~ s"4 ttsr which its work is achieved
Ill - the reporter-save in cases 81
crime or fragrant wrone-joir os.7es OF
IofnpeIled to divulge the sources 90 NJ.
norma ton, the ability of the mr.. ~. -.
9erEe tne public would be des1t
7eiious Dlow.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
PEOPLE EAGER FOR GOSPEL

| The Protestant clergy of today are
sadly weakened by a spirit of compro
mise, writes William Lyon Phelps in
the Noven Der Century They are
afraid to preach CHI istianity, partly be-
cause they do not believe in it, and
partly because they are afraid it won t
draw" They attempt to beguile men
into the church by announcing secular
3. themes, by the discussion of timely
poll al and literary topics. AS a mat
ter of fact, the ungodly respect heartily
e Christian minister who is absolutely
sincere and who confines his sermons
to religion. and they despise a vacil-
lating and worldly minded pastor, who
seems to apologize for his religion
and who substitutes lectures on poll
tics and socialism for the preaching
of the gospel.
No mistake is greater than the mis-
take of the minister who conceiveS
it to be his duty to preach politics from
the pulpit To an audience wno have
read the daily papers all the week, and
the Sunday paper that very morning'
nothing is more superfuous than a
political discourse in church. I remem-
Der the case of a prominent clergyman
who, during a whole presidential cam
paign, preached Sunday after Sunday
against one of the candidates, to a
constantly diminishing audience. On
the night when the returns came in
the object of his attacks was appar-
emily successful, and he cried out in
despair, what can be done now?" He
was effectively answered by one of the
ungodly who happened to be present:
Il don't see that there is anything
left for you now, doctor, except to
preach the gospel
The tremendous strength of the
Roman Catholic church lies in it's
fidelity to principle, in it's religious
vitality, and in its hatred of compro-
mise. 1t should be an object lesson
to all Protestant ministers. They may
not believe it's dogmas, they may not
accept any theological dogmas at all;
but they ought to learn that the chief
duty of a preacher is to hold forth
Christianity land not to discourse OH
sanitation, political economy or liter
ature- People everywhere are eager
for the gospel, and always respond
to it when it is convincingly set forth,
whether by men like Phillips Brooks
or men like Billy Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
Wind-Graved NTesas

| Strange and striking are the positive
| features of landscape presented by the
continental divide in our southern arid
| country of New Mexico and Arizona
| Widest, least visited, and most desolate
! section of our lands is this, over which
today still roams at will the aborigine in
numbers greater for size of area than
| was ever known in any part of our
realm since advent of European Yet
it was this very portion of our broad
domain which was already settled by
Old-World men within fifty years after
the landing oT Columbus on Salvador
Before that time for more than twenty
centuries there f1ourished within that
region a peaceful and highly cultivated
race.
Throughout most of our desert lands
the smooth illumitable plains are
quickly studded by short. isolated, vet
lofty mountain ranges, which rise from
the sea of earth as volcanic isles out
of CLASSY ocean. Desert ranges
form a distinctive mountain type. AS
relief chara cters they attract wide at
tentfon from traveller and scientist
alike, for they are the most impressive
of the local features of Topography
In that part of the arid country Of
which we now speak there are none
OF these high mountains. The 'InseI-
berglandschaft" as the Germans caIl n
still persists, but in different form. In
stead of majestic peaks and lofty
ranges there are lower truncated hills
which rise even more abruptly from
the general plains-surface. Mesas. or
tables" the Spanish-speaking settlers
APPLY denominate them. The region is
prominently mesa-Iand; therefore
one of the most interesting and geologi
cally one of the most instructive in all
our domain.
That any part of a great continental
divide should be a vast plain in place
of a towering mountain ridge is pri
mariIy result of geologic structure
and secondarily of peculiarly Of
climate. In western New Mexico the
broad plain occupying the divide is !
',OOO feet above tide. So even is If !
that in crossing one is unaware of the
time when he ceases to ascend on the
Atlantic slope and begins to go down |
on the Pacific side. The ocean-to-
ocean railway excavates its grades or |
tho top of the continent only a scant
haIf-dozen feet-one of the shaI1ouest
cuts on it's entire line
Mesas of the mesa-land impart m
the landscape features entirely novel
Nowhere else on the face of the earth
do they reach such notable deveIon
nent- They appear as even-topned SIR
faces more or less Well elevated above
the general plains-surface about The
of these truncated mounds
form the brow of a precipitous escarD-
ment which is one of their most char
acteristic features. Not infreouentlz
the upper part OF the escarpment is a |
vertical wall 100. 200 or even 500 feet
in height Mesa de Maya (armored
mesa) and Llano Estacado (walled
plain) are Spanish descriptive terms
especially to this feature
The ealus-like slopes below are the
of any angle of repose; ana
their meeting with the general plains
surface is as sharp as the strandIfne
Popular cience Monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's all right to laugh if there's
something to laugh at.
n X
Most of the lucrative positions de-
rnand great diligence and exacting eff
forts.
= =
The dividends of true friendship
are worth more than those earned by
stocks and bonds.
If dreams came true most of the
crazv stunts would not be staged be-
hind the bars of insane asyluns,
= 4 y
AS soon as a woman marrles j man
she begins to discover the flaws in
him that love made her too blind to
see.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25

AUTUMN.


Autumn like Atlanta, fleetIy fees,
Galley robes streaming, leaf-blown down
the wind;
And tbs our pleading hearts that race
behind
Striving to clasp her by her golden
knees,
To stay her sorrowful beauty-but the
Glance with her brilliant flight. Oh,
grave and kind,
Hide We no russet boards, that we may
find
And fling the apples of Hippomenes?
Clouded about with birds, fawn-nuzzled.
Her speed outstrips US. and the woods
are dead
OF dream or color-al1 their incense fled!
Across the burning marsh she gains the
hill
And breathless turns her beautiful
bright head
And nocks with pagan laughter, sweetly
Shrill.
William Rose Benet, in the American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
HVAOR or THE Day

Some men, said Uncle Fben ..,.
nolerin' fur new deal when Nh Keeps 1s
iedlly wants Is jes' a handout 49,
ington Star. l. w ash
see society people at Nevport had d.
b 80 snow where did they get fbe
~, :, II was loan exhibition 7 he
iieNe' w ashinSton Herald.
see you here AGAIN." That's what I lola
the cop, your honor but he yvouIdn't ~
'ieNe me- Detroit Free Press.
ARE you a servant of the people7''
res replied Senator Sorghum. ssOni,
II II should be observed that a really first
Grass servant may come pretty near being
a boss. Washington star.
MT Henry Peck.-DO you think Vol, cs,,
make a good portrait Of nv wife, NJ
Brushaway-My friend, can make n sc,
h1enke you'll Jump every time you see
it--New York Globe.
Willie-Did your mother or your fs.ho-
punish you when you were young2 Tor
mte-Both- Wilhe-How did your fstba
punish youH Tommie-He used to sine -
me.-Yonkers Statesman. 10
The friend took the visiting Ros.o.,..-
to the ball game. There, see said IN
native; the pitcher has Just tbroU,r
curved ball Did you notice n - .s1
noticed 1t" replied the Bostonian ~
1 wouldn't call 1t curved. 1 would cali -
sinusoidal. Houston Post. III u
Shell never saw Mrs. Havertine ,,.,t.
that man before 1 must find out who ne
Is He-You needn't worry. it's ori.-O -.
MISUNDERSTANDING Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25

No, Angelica, the printers do not car
~ sticks in the composing room to keeT
the turtles from biting them.
Playing polo in automobiles used tc
be the favorite sport in Wichita, but al
present ousting some city officer leads II
popularity by a good margin.
According to a recent church report
it costs $12 per head to convert unbe-
levers in Missouri. But after the Moose
vote in Kansas is counted and COM
pared with Bill Whites expense &C
count, it may develop that it costs more
to show a Kansan.
1t is remarkable how much cooler the
mornings appear to the guy with the
new fall overcoat than they do to the
poor geek with the last-year's raglan.
The book is coming along in punches
and will be assembled and bolted to-
gether before long.-At1v.
You can't fool all the people, but it
isn't necessary. Sooner or later they Will
fool themselves.
1t is reported that the Bulgarians
have captured Kirk Kelliseh, the key to
Adria nople. Now, If they can just find
the key hole, and the associated press
correspondents can spell it, they will be
doing nicely.
Women who would say poor things"
if the Kilties band marched down the
street on a chilly day, continue to dress
their Riddles in such a manner that a
ring of little pink leg shows between
stocking and skirt.
It's hard to keep your troubles to
yourself when so many people want to
borrow trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
DAFFYDuS
BY U. NoALL.

If a farmer was surprised at his
great yield of corn would you say he
hardly believed his ears?
(Hold your hats for the curve,
boysi >
If a New Jersey mother was pleased
with her boys success would she Pat
erson?
(Show him no mercy He's the
boob that put roam in Romeo.)
Could you call a red nose a spirit
painting ?''
(Aw-you read that in some book-)