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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-26
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH

mere is a certain young friend of mine
VINO often remarks apropos of family al.
airs; i usually manage to get my own
Sne does. There is no doubt about IT. 7
happen 10 know her family, and 1 know
~ IoI Wnat sne says is more than true.
vi is there anything strange about the
matter; she has the most disagreeable
seHuPer and the more imperious egotism
~ the tamlly. Why shouldn't she get her
way! Just as, of my neighbours three
oogs, the dog with the most quarrelsome
temper would always get the pick of the
ieeolngs, unless my neighbor interviewed
girls statement is the evident pride WITH
which she makes it. Can she possibly be
proud Of being the human prototype of
ing his temper?
And yet I know many people who
speak with the same air of pride about
getting their own way either in the fam
lly circle or in the world at large.
evidently they do not realize what such
1eIerence on the part of others means.
Ihey seem to think that their success in
getting their own way denotes some COM
Inendable characteristic, such as ~tenacity
OF purpose or a strong personality. I
wonder if the quarrelsome dog thinks the
other dogs give in to him because he has
such a strong will power, such tenaclty
OF purpose, such a powerful personality.
l wonder. If he would be surprised if lie
were told that he has his own way SIM
ply because he is SO very greedy and so
disagreeable when he is crossed.
Did you ever read The Newcomes''?
II you have, perhaps you may remember
the passage in which T~hackeray exalts
the advantages of self-assertion:
I push on in the crowd" says ne,
every male or female struggler must use
his or her shoulders. If a better place
than yours presents itself just beyond
your neighbor, elbow him and take it.
What a man has to do in society is to
assert himself. Is there a good place at
table? Take 1t. At the Treasury or the
Home Office? Ask for it. Do you want
to go to a party to which you are not Ill
vited? Ask to be asked. Ask A, ask b,
ask Mrs. c.. ask everybody you know; you
will be thought a bore, but you will have
your way. h matters If you are con-
sidered obtrusive, provided that you OBJ
trude? By pushing steady, nine huI:-
dred and ninety-nine people in a thoiI-
sand will yield to you. Only command
persons, and you may be pretty sure hat
a good number will obey. If your neigh
boris foot obstructs you, stamp on it; aud
do you suppose he won't take it away?"
So advises the gentle satirist. and such
undoubtedly are the rules followed by
these people who are so sure of always
getting what they want-although 1 doubt
if they ever express their code to them
selves in quite such plain words.
And vet these maSterful folks are proud,
instead of ashamed of always getting
their own way; they boast of their
proves instead of deprecating it.
What a queer thing human nature is!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-26
OUR BAD BANKING SYSTEM.

1 note that some writer has said
there are twenty-seven thousand rea-
sons why the country needs banking
reform, writes Andrew Carnegie in
Leslie's. He meant our twenty-seven
thousand banks. But 1 say there are
ninety-odd million reasons. 1 mean
that 1t concerns the fortunes, the in
come, the bread and butter of all the
people of the United States. 1t is the
great humanitarian issue of the day.
You recall the panic of 1907. 1t was
very bad. The banks broke down, n
then business broke down. We got
over it-that is the wonderful thing
about this re~sourceful country, for no
other land could AVE stood such a dis
aster. But there was great suffering.
Good business houses went to the wall;
half a million men were thrown out of
work. Charity had more than it
could do to AXE care of the homeless
so much, but all the people who work
did.
Now our bad banking system
brought his panic on. just as it has
brought on panics in the past, just as
it will bring them on again If it is not
corrected. Bear his fact in mind,
and then consider that in Europe they
don't have panics. They control them
there, SO that they harm no one. We
can do it here. Why metz? The prob
lem is simple enough. If the people
would only interest themselves, they
would grasp the idea and want to
know more. Then, when they under
stood how the matter rik home
home to the family exchequer and
livelihood-they would rise up and
demand that congress give them a re-
form law at once.
Our banks have no way of co-opera-
ton. That is the main defect. In every
other country they have a system of
banking cooperation. We have no
banking system, but only a series of
banks. Individually they are sound,
splendid institutions, of great service
ordinarily to their communities. They
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-26
QUAKER
[From the PhIladelnhia Record1

from the Philadelphia Record.J
We have all experienced times when
hard words came mighty easy.
Some men will sit down for hours and
discourse on the evils of laziness.
The true test of greatness is not to al
low your hat to get too small for you.
Few girls care for long engagements.
They would much prefer two short ones.
About the only people in the world who
don't quarrel over religion are those who
haven't any.
1t sometimes seems as though there
must be as many different kinds of fools
as there are people.
Rollingston Nomoss-"I don't believe in
signs" Tatterdon Torn-"Neither do l;
when I see a doormat wild Welcome on
i, l look around fer de dog"
Scribbler-"What struck you most forcI-
bly, in leading my new novel?' Wigwag
T fact that there is an English
butler in it whose name isn't James"
Mrs. M~uggins-"Your husband dresses
rather quietly, doesn't he?" Mrs. Buggins
wouldn' think SO if you could
hear him when he can't find his collar
buttons"
Mrs. Gnaggs-"A man always wants to
be the whole thing" Mr.. Gnaggs-"A
woman isn't satisfied to be the whole
thing; she wants to be the half of some
thing else as WELL"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-26
RY THE WAY
By HARVEY PARsoNA

Noting that IT. r. says he is going
to fight it through to the end. a fell
low criminal TT. r. for
straight Republican, writes in to
of recent date, would say: probably,
from all present indications, the little
end.
AS we understand the Las Vegas
situation, the fight will be permitted
to come off as advertised, but any
cook who bets over $~7,D0O,0OO
(openly) on the fight will be dealt
with according to law.
Evelyn says she is afraid of Thaw,
but if some of the other recent
stories about her are correct, it is evil
dent that her fear was Matched quite
recently.
Sympathizing with a boob is sim
ply inviting him to add about 200 per
cent to his tale of woe.
No, Augustus, it would not be good
form to give your girl a baseball dia-
mond, but you might give her a base
ball ticket and help the Booster club.
Hon. Stubs has not only filed his
nomination papers, but his applica-
ton for membership in the justly
celebrated AnaniaS club. He says the
T. r. party is the Republican party,
but T. r. says it is a new party from
the ground up.
Excuses are a darnsight easier to
find han four1eaf clovers. We look
forward to the sight of the Fob who
will feel so bad over the failure of
the Prohibition party to get on the
ticket that he will go out and get
o~ssified to drown his sorrows.
We hereby predict hat there will
be nothing bidding in the organization
of a new party for a few days.. Hav-
ing failed to put T. r. over in Chi
cago, the steel trust will put him on
ice for a while and see what can be
done o putting Harmon across at
Baltimore.
Missionaries who try to civilize the
savage may EEL reasonably satisfied
with their work when aid savage as
Stimulates the basic principles of booze,
slang, chewing gum, politics, petit lar
ceny and ivorce.
1t is a wonder more parents do not
name their som Noah He knew
enough to come in out of the wet.
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A Boa for the aMovies.,

Regions of the world never before
visited by the white man will be ex
plored by an expedition which will set
out from this city about September l
under the auspices of the University
Of Pennsylvania Museum. Algot LANCE,
a member of the Explorers club, who
has already gone far into the interior
of the Amazonian jungles, will be its
leader.
'In this year of 1912" said Mr..
LANCE, with the north and south
poles both discovered and with soda
fountains scattered through the heart
of central Africa, the only place where
you car find good, uncontaminated
aborigines, living exactly as they lived
in the time of Caesar, is at the head
waters of the Amazon's tributaries"
The primary object of the expedi-
ton is the collection of chronological
specimens for the uriversity's museum.
But Mr.. LANCE is interested in the wild
beasts and unbelievable reptiles that
haunt the SwampS 1000 miles from
the Amazon's mouth, and he is going
to do a little geological collecting on
the side.
az shall not come back" he an
nounced, positively, until 1 have a
moving picture of a boa constructor SO
feet long in action. 1 saw one or
these grewsome monsters "a Rect long
on my trip to South America in 1910.
The figure has beer questioned by sew
eraI scientists in this country, among
them Ditmars, curator of
reptiles at the Bronx zoo; but numer-
Gus others have been ready to affirm
their belief in my report. Among the
latter is numbered Professor Henry E.
Champion, professor of zoology at Co
1umbia university, himself n explorer
of no mean note.
One of the unusual features OF Mr.
Lange's equipment, and one on which
he himself lays a great deal OF en-
phasis, is the moving picture outht
which he will carry along. Besides
the lifelike reproduction of the enor-
nous snake, Mr.. LANCE hopes to bring
home pictures of the fantastic dances
of the imperturbable jungles and of the
quaint scenes of daily life among the
sayages that inhabit these places.
Mr.. LANCE described some of the
conditions which he expected to
counter during the three years the trip
will take. In the first place, ne SAD,
he would procure a steam yacht OF
100 feet in length for the
ney. on which he would store his
Photographic supplies. and
provisions for three years. The yacht,
he explained, had to be propelled by
steam, because wood would be the only
fuel available most of the time ana
hat could be had fer the cutting
The headquarters of the party VIII
be at Manaois, capital of the state or
Amazonas. a flourishing city of $1,000
souls. with an opera house only ex-
ceeded in e1aborateness by those of
and Berlin.-New York
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AYHAWKER JOTS

Mr.. Cabbage Of P~lainville probably
wears a seven and one-half hat.
A Miss Bentley of Jerome, Cove
county, spells her front name Eva
lyme"
When some fellows. says the Haven
Journal, see more little evil in a fell
bowman, it blinds them to all the
good there is in him.
1t has come to the 4otice of the
Glen Elder Sentinel that the fellow
who tells lies that please is more re
spected than he who tells the truth
that hurts.
The crop of candidates is getting
ripe, reports the Oberlin Times. and
the increased church attendance is be-
coming quite noticeable. We're all
good fellows now.
An important truth is set u in a
few words by the Elk City Sum-, as
follows: Many men get rich from the
opportunities that the "other fellows
have thrown away.
In all of his travels within a radius
OF 125 miles, Gasaway, the Gas Gulch
correspondent of the Wilson County
best and cleanest towns in the state of
Kansas"
The Cassoday Times takes excep-
lions to the assertion OF Colonel Lii
liam Russell that "scrubbing never did
a nee any good" h Times has
seen necks in Cassoday that it is posi-
tive ~scrubbing would work wonders
with.
A great peace pervades the sanctum
of Editor Smith of the Elk Falls Re
Hector, as the following lines from his
paper show: The Reflector family are
INDUCING in string beans, peas and
new spuds, all from the family gar
den patch. 1t makes one feel sort of
independent.
At least fifty per cent Of the rural
correspondents of the Kansas week
lies opened their string of items for
last weeks papers with the query;-
Who says it never rains in Kansas
And yet there are doubters of the
theory that great minds run in the
same channels.
Miss Alice McCargar was burned real
badly Wednesday, while shelwas help-l
ing to get dinner. She had some.
grease in a skillet and somehow Spill
ed it, some striking her in the face
and some on her limb. Her burns
are very sore but otherwise she is get
ing along nicely.
An announcement in last weeks
Gaylord Sentinel: The editor is in,
Chicago this week taking in the big
Republican convention, and the "dev-
liz is not very we'll versed in the po-
litical language of the day and may
get off IN the wrong foot. Should
such be the case. just call in and lick
the editor upon his return.
We heard of a very funny automo-
bile accident hat happened southwest
of here last week, relates the Blue
Ribbo correspondent of Western
Kansas World. Four women were out
driving in a surrey when they met -four
men in an automobile. The horses
acted as if they might get scared so
both rigs stopped. The women all
Jumped out of the surrey and three of
the men ran to their assistance; the
first man fell down when he got about
way; the next one grabbed one of
the woman and held her while the
third man held the horses and the
horses didn't get a bit scare as the
auto passed by.
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SAYS UNCLE CIV

Beware how you cry "Sacrilege!" He
whom you accuse of delnolishing your
gods may only have ratified the bones
of your family skeleton. 1t is an I'M
happy habit of men who are not as
brave as they should be to hide be-
hind things they hold sacred. Since
the dawn of time, religion and senti-
ment have been utilized by the cow
ardly and the hypocritical to block the
wheels of progress, which has naught
to do with either. The wall of "Blas-
phemy!" has greeted every spirit
brave enough to turn h light upon
dark places. j35@ ~
Men are quite as prone to shield
their sore spots. behind political, So
cial and industrial conventions. We
brand as ~iconoclasts those. who merely
have trodden on our corns. And while,
as a rule, other. men shoul keep off
our toes, We have no business with
onr ignorance with such appellations
as "agitator' and "inncvator." We
call upon all the gods a. once to wit
ness hat he who demonstrates a new
principle of science, a new method in
politics or a better mode of industrial
organization is an enemy of society.
And the man who is manipulating the
light keeps on in his mission of hu-
man service until our ignorance stands
forth naked and ashamed.
Have done with c~owardicei Stand
out in the open! Acknowledge the
and take you medicine! In all
the story of human crimes there is no
which,, writ in the blood of martyrs,
stands an eternal arraignment of those
who, when thier own skins were
pricked, slew their benefactors in the
name of their gods.-(Copyrighted,
1912, by w. E. Williams.)
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THE HERO OF THE GAME.

THE HERO OF THE GAME.
A two-bit ticket proved the license
needed;
He started in to wage a loud cam
pagn;
All protests 'gainst his clamor went un-
needed,
And epfthets came falling like the rain:
He called the players l~oafers, buns, and
Holsters
Gle knew they couldn't reach him
where he saO
He cried that all the umpires were
Holsters
And jeered at every man who swung a
bat.
1t CHANGED the game was long that day
in ending
1t went eleven innings to a tie
he hurried home, his laggard pace
amending,
And all the fire vanished from his eye;
All, where the two-bit hero Of the
bleachers-
Where now the blatant nuisance of the
game?
His wife, the very slightest of all
creatures,
Is breaking an umbrella DER his frame.
Arthur Chapman, in the Denver Re
publican.
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o SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISOR GLOBE.

It is hard to understand some men and
all women.
A FOOLS progress is often barred by a
wise people can't see.
Hard work probably will help you mora
than the recall of pink pills.
Somehow, a denial has trouble being as
as the original story.
A loafer is often a steady fellow, and a
great hand to settle own-i a chair.
A dreamer and a schemer may be two
different people and then they may not.
AS a general rule, you can get plenty
of sympathy if you don't try to cash it.
Stepchildren and politicians are apt to
exaggerate the wrongs from which they
suffer.
Il generally tell all I know said Link
Preston recently, and a little more"
Kicking wouldn't b. so bad if people
who had the most occasion for it did most
of it.
If you follow the ines of least resist
ance, you aren't so very likely to get
where you want to go.
Possibly it is because they have so
much leisure that dogs and politicians
can find so much to bark at.
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What proof have you of my inno-
your face-your true, gentle, wom-
anly face. No greater proof could
any man ask"
The door was pushed open and the
little daughter of the state house jan
1tar came in. "Have you seen my
Mildred gave it to me. She said
that when h was a little girl she
loved hard rubber balls that bounced
high, and that she never saw one
without wishing she was a little girl
again n could play with one, and so
she often buys them and give them
to little girls. / was playing with
this n and it bounced in here. A
c. is for me-Alice Cawse. J.. S. is for
Jimmy Smith, a little boy I'm engaged
to- $4,000 is the fortune he SAYS he
must make to marry me when we grow
up. He wrote those letters this morn
ing, so I'd remember I'm gagged 20
him."
IF 1 marry you, Harold" Mildred
was saying a few minutes later. Il
snail nave to give up the splendid posi-
llon MI. zane offered me this morning.
L was to be editor of the Woman's Sec
ton 1 am willing to do anything-
anything honorable-for my paper and
myself. You asked me to marry Won
just after Mr.. Zane had assured me
tnat L should succeed in my new posi-
tlon and L wanted to earn nv success
pefore l gave up my work. But a man
who will believe in a woman after he
mas made up his mind that she is n
sulity person 1s-well, his love and
trust are worth more than ANYTHING
else and I am going to take them 81
copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

More courage is needed to loan
money thar to borrow it.
y X
1t ~is-easier for a m a to forgive an
enemy he can whip.
Most of the girls who go without
hats in the summer time have beauti-
full hair.
X = y
Speaking of neighborhood annoy
ances, there are none so trying as
when a photograph and a lawnmower
get into active competition.
Y u 4
The man who kicks on. h size of
the grocery bills at home generally
INDUCES in an expensive luncheon
down town six times a week
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Poets are born-and most of the greaL
ones are dead.
Women waste a lot of powder when the
enemy isn't in sight.
It's hard to lose some frienos-and it's
impossible to lose others.
Even a homely nan is apt to boast OF
how the women run after him.
Don't wait for some one to die and leave
you a fortune. Get busy and make 1t.
Ever notice how many opportunities
people overlook to say something good
of you?
A college education will not hurt a
young man if he is willing to learn some
thing after he graduates
Just as long as young women persist in
trying to sidetrack housework there will
be an oversupply of chorus girls.
It might be well for every bopefuI
graduate to remember that the man be-
hind the hoe or the girl behind the mop
can always earn a living.
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HUAOR or III DAY

Knicker-Does Jones understand the
purchasing power of a dollar7 Booker
Yes, what troubles him is the purchasing
power of his wife.-New York Sun.
isn't ~springtime grand gurgIed the
sweet young thing. 1T is then that ma
ture puts on her most gorgeous raiment.
the timid violets peep through their cover
ing of leaves and the birds voice their
happiness in song. and-andR" And the
cro-cusses,' suggested the sapless swain.
trying to help ~out.-Judge.
"I, sir" said the demonstrative candf-
date, lam a servant of the people,
"Goshi' replied Farmer Corntossel. Amt
this servant problem gettin' to be awfull's
Washington Star.
At a long row Of seaside bathing-rooms
an important young man walked up to the
door of one of the compartments. and
knocking at the same, testify incurred.
When in thunder are you going to GET
those trousers on2" There was a faint
gfggle, and a silvery voice replied: When
/ get married, 1 suppose" The young man
tainted He had mistaken the door
Houston Post
Dau-ghter-Papa, Jack is coming I'M 70
night to ask your consent to our marriaCe
Be kin to him, won't you? Father-Ver~
well, daughter, III say no.-Boston Tran
script
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HELPS 10 GER A srAND

TO GET A STAND
ocSnl Feller, n of the neighbor-
nCoos SUBSTANTIAL farmers. has n
Scneme which beats a rabhit,s foot a.
neiPing MIN get a stand on listed corn
and listed kaffir. He has rigred nm
d art made of a pair of planter
~ as with which he follows after
me lister two rows at a time. packtnr
me loose dirt about the newly nIanf.
eu gram causing it to quickly germin-
ave, and insuring a good stand He
nHIns TO Keep half a day behind the
llSter, so that the packed oround viii
not bake. This improves the condi-
lIoL over ordinary top planting corn
and ~obviates the fault of listed corn
ne mas been doing this several years.
s ~od tne result that he always gets a
good stand A number of his neigh
oors are trying it, with the same good
results. Especially is this Scheme
valuable in kaffir, as is evidence nv
MT. refers experience his year. He
painted nifty acres of kaffir this sprfng
ana got a GOOD stand, where most of
MS failed. The big six inch
ram which followed washed out and
covered up his field so he decided to
pant over again His boy followed
up as usual but night came on and
ne left six rows of the field without
the follow-up-treatment. On examfn-
atlon the field this week shows as
pretty a stand of kaffir as could be
asked, except in those six rows. which
average about a spear of corr 70
each forty feet. Digging into these
rows one can find thousands of little
red ants, and the reason for no kaffir
Is plainly evident. On the other hand
Where the packer has been used no
ants are to be found.=Mulvane News.
SWAT ONE; TRAP A HUNDRED
There is no longer any doubt that
the mouse fly is a filthy thing of evil.
IL poIlute what it touches and con-
veys pollution to the next alightinR
place. 1t is becoming a disgrace 10
harbor the hous fly. A few years
hence n housewife who tolerates a
horde of flies in her kitchen will be
Indifferent to bedbugs. There is an
easy method, of destroying the fly.
You may swat him at the rate of
fifty a day, n he will light on your
potato Just as you are ready to eat
1t. But If you arrange a trap into
which he a find entrance, but ont of
winch ne can not go, you have solved
the problem where cleanliness is per
sistently maintained. To swat the flv
or entrap him., is child's play when
the h~ousekeeper throws a mess of
garbage into the back yard. The first
ana most essential point in this fly
flghting campaign is to
breeding spots. But wen then there
VIII be crumbs and feeding places in
Get a trap and offer in
ducements to your flock to enter, and
Wichita will quickly reduce the fIy
population one-half.-Wichita Bea-
con.
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ents for several syndicates of the
larger newspapers, and had their stuff
copyrighted, and their names in big
black letters over every line of their
work that appeared in the newspapers,
INDUCED for the most part in glitter
ing generalities and analytical concoc-
tions about the Chicago fracas that
were scarcely interesting. The real news
of the great convention was furnished
to the people of the nation by just
ordinary plug reporters.