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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
QUAKER MEDITATTONs.
[From the philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.
ANY man can go to law, but the
trouble is to get back.
Politically speaking, the proof of
the pudding is in the plums.
It's mighty poor doctor that can't
keep body and soul together.
No athlete wants to break the &c
ord at the jump from the frying pan
into the fire.
Success is merely a matter of con-
vincing others that you are as good as
you think you are.
Hoax-''Why do you always refer
to her as the lawn party?" Joax-
ssShe's a grass widow"
Muggins-'Do you think a woman
can keep a secret?" Buggins-"Per-
haps, but the average woman is woe
fully out of practice"
BIobbs-''Tkey tell me Borrowed
is paying his attentions to an heiress.r
Slobbs-''Ill bet that's the first thing
he ever paid in his life"
Wigg-"I don't believe Henpeckke
has ever really formed an opinion of
his own" Wagg-"Oh, well, give him
time. He'll arrive at a definite con-
clusion. when he dies"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
BOYS HAVE BEEN WRoNGED

If the boys of the country could hold
a convention the first action they
would take would be to give a vote of
thanks to DR. Dukes, of Rugby, and
DR.. J. Sim Wallace, of London's big
gcst hospital. Perhaps the Boy Scouts
of America will do this yet
For these two doctors are the great
est friends of boyhood that the world
has yet produced. DR.. Dukes makes
this announcement: while adults
should arise from the table hungry,
children should reach a sense of re-
pletion before rising. No work should
ever be imposed upon boys and girls
without sustenance.''
And here comes DR.. Wallace with an
even more advanced doctrine. He says
that not only boys and girls but grown
people as well, start their meals at the
wrong end. Jam, pie, cake buildings,
and ice cream should be taken before
the palmer food and not afterward. OF
course, every boy who ever lived knew
that this was the only proper manner
Of eating. And he tried to carry it out,
even to the extent of making surrep-
titious raids on the pantry and the jam
closet. But his elders steadfast1y re-
fused to see the light and even applied
the slipper to him for his perception
Of this high, physiological truth which
has only at this late day been recog-
nized by eminent medical authority.
So let the boys wade into the pastry
and preserves. even though plain meat
and potatoes remain on the table beg
ging for their attention. The cost of
meat and potatoes is somewhat high,
anyway. But in the meantime, it prob
ably will be wise to notify the family
doctor to prepare for a hurry-up call
about midnight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
Out of the Mouths of Babes.

One day small Harry saw a turkey
gobbler strutting around in neigh
boris back yard-the firSt he had ever
seen.
"Oh. mamma" he called, come out
here and see the big red-nosed chicken
with a folding fam"
An old gentleman who had just fin
ished shaving hins IF said to his little
grandson, Come here, Charlie, and
I'll shave you too"
you can't shave me, grandpa" re-
piled the boy. "'cause my whiskers are
not ripe YETI
Little Robert had been taught to re-
cite "Mary's Little Lamb for the bene-
fit of visitors One day when called
upon to show off, he rebelled. I'm
going to cut it out, mamma" he said.
THAT lamb of Mary's must be an old
sheep by this time"
Pm surprised Tommy" said the
father, reprovingly, that you should
strike your little brother. Don't you
know that it is cowardly to strike any
one smaller than yourself?"
Yes" answered Tommy. But when
you spanked me yesterday I was too
polite to mention it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

The ragman made us his spring
visit the other day, and in return for
our winter accumulation of rags,
bottles, old iron," rendered us a small
sum or money which, according to
ne1ghborhood custom, we have invest
ed in plants and flower seeds,
We call him the ragman, but right
fully he should be called the ragboy,
for he is not yet 20 years old. And
yet, he has been in charge of the bust
ness, driving his own cart and his
own bargains, ever since he was 13,
ana doing 1t, moreover, with such sue
cess that 1 suspect he is decidedly
more prosperous than many of the
customers from whose dirty cellars he
cheerfully removes all kinds of rub
bish.
asked this rather unusual ragman
If business was good this year, and
he averred that it was. Then he add
ed that business was always good
with him, and explained that this was
because he treated people squarely.
Il tell you," he said, as he swung his
bundle of rags up on his broad
shoulder, and turned to depart, II
dope it out just about this way: if you
treat people good, you'll succeed, be-
cause they want to see you again and
that makes business. But If you try
to skin them, you may win out the
first time, but you'll get yours in the
end"
Now the ragman was not express
ing a precept of ethics with no foun-
dalton in real life. He probably
doesn't know what ethics means. He
was simply telling what his exper-
fence as a ragman had taught him
that the square deal pays.
One of the most successful men
know said to me the other day: 81
never did business primarily for mon
ey.'' Knowing something about his
career, 1 believe him. He is baker
the best bread possible for the money
has always meant even more to him
than financial success. - '--.-' -
II never chose the right thing
when L had to pick between what I
knew was right and what seemed ex-
pedient, without finding that the right
thing turned out to be expedient in,
the end" says another business man.
He, too, has been successful in almost
he has taken up.
whittier is all this tending?" you
may ask. Simply to this, my friends:
I think we are all apt to have the
idea that one mans success in bust
ness means another mans failure, and
that the dishonest or, at best, the
man, is the only one
who can make money nowadays. Now,
that may be true as regards the vast
fortunes which are upsetting the
country. I do not believe any man
can accumulate such wealth without |
dishonesty: at least in the moral sense |
if not in the legal. But in regard to |
moderate business success am daily |
more convinced that it comes from |
serving other men rather than from |
them.
These three men I have quoted were |
all hard-headed business men, but l
they didn't find it necessary to be |
hard-hearted.
1t is rather the fashion to be cyni-
cal about these things. Let's be I'M
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
THOSE ROOsEVEIT CONTESTS.

That many of the contests against
delegates for President Taft were con-
ceived in a spirit of bluff by the Roose-
welt forces and for the purpose of Civ
ing them a chance to claim strength
for the colonePs candidacy which 1t
never possessed has become plainly
apparent during the past few days.
Even Colonel Roosevelt himself has al
mcst as much as admitted this fact.
OF the twenty-four Alabama dele
gates who were chosen for President
Taft, Colonel Roosevelt's managers
contested the legality of the selection
of no less than sixteen of them,
the six delegates-at-large, and
the two delegates from each of five of
the congressional districts. This con-
test was the first one taken up by the
national committee And by a unanI-
nous vote, mind you, a vote that in
clrded the ayes of the fifteen or sew
enteen staunch Roosevelt men on this
committee, it was decided that as far
as the contests against fourteen of
these delegates were concerned, they
did not have a leg to stand on. There
was a split in the committee on the
contest over the two delegates from
the Ninth Alabama district, but the
majority of the committee decided it
had not been substantiated.
This action Of the Roosevelt men On
the national committee is not any more
conclusive of the fact that the Roose-
Welt managers were merely bluffing
when they filed contests against two
thirds of the Alabama delegation, than
was the action of Colonel Roosevelt
himself, when he was informed by the
newspaper men that the Alabama con-
tests had been decided against him. He
reached into his pocket, pulled out a
paper, covered up all but one line of
it and showed that line to the news
paper boys. The paper was Colonel
Rcosevelt's private memoranda of the
alignment of the delegates to the Chi
cago- convention. The line he exposed TO
view gave Taft % delegates from Ala
bama and himself 2, and he remarked
that that had been his idea of how the
Alabama delegation would be divided.
Now, if Colonel Roosevelt has be-
lieved all along that he only had a
chance of getting two delegates from
Alabama, why did he permit his man.
ayers to contest no less than fourteen
other delegates from this state, if it
wasn't merely for the purpose of bluff |
ing, and giving his candidacy a |
which it did not have? This |
is question that provides its own an
swer.
And the chances are excellent that |
few, if any, of the other contests which |
have been brought by the Roosevelt |
forces are based on any more SUBJ
stantial grounds than were the Ala |
bama contests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
AYHAWKER JOT:S

If a man hustles fourteen hours a
day, says the Scranton Gazette, and
succeeds in life, a lot of slow pokeS are
afraid he isn't honest.
Speaking of the political situation
in our county, says the Osawatomie
Graphic, the cabbage in the stores is
higher than in our garden.
Mack Gretchen has an idea that the
cost of living could advance several
notches yet before any of US would be
willing to quit on our own accord.
If some people, says the Morgan
Vile Tribune, were to accept your
offer Of penny for their thoughts,
you would probably get the short end
of the deal.
This item from North Sherman in
Recently an automobile collided with
a calf belonging to Frank Newell and
put the calf's light out.
An observation by "Flinch'' of the
Carbonate Post: Just because a dog
goes fast when can is tied to his
as much speed chasing bears.
The town women all hoe in the gar
dens in the evenings, reports the
Americas Greeting, while the head of
the family goes fishing and thus living
is easy, corn crop or no corn crop.
war with Cuba would even af-
feet Holton people, insists the Holton
Signal. Cuban pineapples can now
be bought for ten cents, the lowest
such pineapples have ever been sold.
If a war is begun-good-bye ten cent
pineapples.
An atom is so small that it takes a
bunch of something like 100,000,000
of them to become visible under the
most powerful microscope. Will
Palmer, of the Jewell County Repub-
lican, is willing to go SO far as to adj
init that it is even smaller than a
man who refuses his paper at the
postoffice without paying up the back
AS the Americas Greeting tells the
story: A woman down in Oklahoma
Jumped onto another woman and stab
bed her. She was arrested and let
out on bail and jumped her bond. She
was re-arrested and while being taken
to Jail on the train she jumped out of
the car window and as the officers
failed to find her again it is presumed
that she jumped the country.
An Alma man was boasting the 9TH
er day that he could tell every car in
town by the noise it made while run
ming, relates the Alma Signal. Just
then car went by, and he was asked
to identify it without looking at it. He
studied a moment, and then said:
why, that is --'s." The crowd |
looked out and Ernest Thoes was go
ing by with his big traction engine.
Little Bill skipped off to school the
OIn6r Ody before MS InOIn0T -AdQ d
chance to wash his face, relates the
Elk County Citizen. The teacher sent
him to the basement to scrub up, but |
the janitor had failed to leave a towel |
within reach. Bill went up to the |
schoolroom, however, with the lower
part of his face reasonably clean; the |
upper part streaked and griny. why |
Willie,' the teacher said, 'how does
this happen that the lower part of |
your face is nice and clean, while the |
rest of it is SO dirty?'' WELL said |
Bill, they wasn't any towel there, an
that's as high as my shirt would |
reach.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
HUNOR or THE DRY

Bridget-Have yez planned yer Easter
dress yet, Moran? Norah-Of'm Undecided
between a directory and an umpire
Puck.
Don't these parvenus make you siclx7''
asked Chapley OF his vis-a-vis at the
Spildorf II don't know" she replied in
nocently. Il n~ver ate any."-Judge.
Skinf1fnt-I have no money, but I will
give you a little advice. Beggar-WelI N
yer hain't got no money yer advice can't
be very Yaluable.-Christian Advocate
Mother-Im afraid paregoric would
not be good for him. Father-pos-
sibly not: but 1 think II would be good
for the re st of the family
'Hilda, II you leave me now 1 shall r.
fuse to give you testimonial" sAv
tank ay not need testimonial Ay got
Bible now and ay shall get husband next
week."-Chicago Record-Herald.
'fEnie-Shall I put on my maclxintosh
and run out and post this letter mother
Mother-No, dear; it's not fit for a dog 10
be out a night like this. Let yotr
father post it.-London Opinion -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

And many a sober young man turns
out to be a gay old boy.
The gossip of today may be the su-
perstition of tomorrow.
Most homely women are clever
probably because they have to be.
Conscience is always getting in the
way of your having a good time.
But you can't judge what there is
in a woman's head by the size Of her
hat.
1t is easy to appreciate the beauties
of the simple life-if you are not
obliged to live it.
All men are born free and equal,
and each has everything his own way
until he is a year or two old.
AS matter of fact, a woman never
enjoys crying unless there is man
present whose feelings she wants to
hurt.
Many a woman goes to her grave
with the one regret that she had a
lot of bargain remnants saved up that
she never got a chance to use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
yEsPERAT,.

too behold the day and know It fair;
have lain silent where the noontide's
spell,
Woven of leaves and waters and soft air,
Gives the hushed solitude a peace to
keep;
Where gathered hues and fragrances
compel
The willing souls along the ways Of
sleep.
Z too, exult when through a swirl of
cloud
The flaming sun thrusts forward like
a shield
Whereunder all the hosts Of storm are
bowed,
And the last cohorts of the smitten rain
Flee down the wide horizons till the field
OF hard-worn sky be left without a
stain.
Yet sweeter than all these the little space
OF slowly mounting twilight, ere the
nights
Dominion is accomplished, and her face
Shadows the earth with calm; most dear
to
A dying flush of sunset, and yelled lights
OF musing stars above a soundless sea.
Charles E. Whitmore, in the June
Scribner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

While congress has been fussing over
the adjustment of the commerce court,
the United States supreme court was
quietly working on a decision, an
nouneed the other day, pulling out its
horns The Supreme court lays down
the law that the commerce court has
no right to substitute it's Judgment for
that of interstate commerce commits
sion in the administration of the rate
laws on matters of fact.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

subscn jbers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate CT
month (by n.an only Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State Journal VIII be
10 Won like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many people applaud simply
because others are doing so.
y = y
Most people lead obscure lives not
from any choice of their own.
4 q y
More women would be happier if
pink clothes were becoming to them.
x y
Any number of men woS1d be more
successful in betting if they did not
back their own judgment.
y X
Nor it is at all difficult to get plenty
of volunteers for any kind of an anvil
chorus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

Physicians who have a mind to look
lightly on the new vital, statistics law
that is in operation in Kansas might
find some information to their adj
vantage in the news of the arrest and
filming of one of their brethren at Bur-
lington who failed to report the death
of an infant. Complete vital statistics
arc records most essential for every
community to have in its possession.
The state board of health should en-
fierce this law rigidly as it probably
will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

DR.. S. ]. Crumbin's election to the
secretaryship of the state board of
health is becoming just such a matter
OF course as is the election of Mr.. CO.
burn to the secretaryship of the state
board OF agriculture. For efficiency
in service in their particular lines, Mr..
Coburn and DIR. Crumbine seem to be
In a class of their own. They are in
valuable to Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
REFLECTIONS of A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.1

A long funny story and sad one.
A woman can be more ashamed of
her husbands manners than of his
morals
Nobody is half as afraid of burning
his sou: with scorching lie as his
mouth with hot soup.
One satisfactory thing about being a
farmer is nobody is trying to get his
job away from him.
A man seems to be able to do a bet
ter business with cold nerve than with
irreproachab1e character
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

Justice Burch was graduated in 1888.
The assignment of Justice Burch as
contributor to the magazine was maze
by DR.. H. B. Hutchins, president OF
the. university. who was one of the
judges instructors when he was AT
Ann Arbor, and is a deserved recogrl-
ton of the judges ability as jurisr
and writer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

was not a year ago in England at a
royal gathering Of all the nations, that
the American visitor heard on all sides
in the gallery, as Consul General Crit
f1ths in conventional black moved
amid the dazzling brilliance of bright
court uniforms, the insistent whisper
Look, that one in black is the Ameri-
can"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
FROM OTHER PENS
THE DANGER POINT,

Two items in the current news ara
sufficiently grave in their import to
cause the least timorous citizen to
pause in alarm. One relates the fact
that the Chicago brewers have an
nounced rise of 90 cents a half-bar-
rel in the price of beer. The second
tells or a similar increase of two cents
package in the price of bird gravel.
so long as only beef and potatoes
went skyrocketing the public, though
tnconvenienced, need not have he
come alarmed. Now that the re-
ientless grip of the advancing cost of
living is embracing the luxuries as
Wen as the necessities, those features
In the daily life of the nation which
represent rest, recreation, solace, com
tort and joy, the situation cannot be
something must be done about it, and
at once. Marie Antoinette brought
about several sanguinary incidents In
the French revolution by remarking
that the peasants should eat cake II
they hadn't bread. AS well might the
grasping Money Demon today say to
the starving workingman Enjoy your
beer, as you can't buy beef" and to
the worried typewriter "Give your
canary all the comforts which you
can't have for yourself" The necessity
for remedial measures, even for gov
eminent Intervention, is imperative.
1t should be simple matter for con-
gress to enact a law providing that
beer should be sold, if by the glass, at
not more than five cents the half
pint, and that no beer should be sold
in any glass which did not have stamp
ed upon 1t it's capacity, LIQUID meas
ure. And the department of justice
should proceed Immediately to an in
vestigation-or, better, to immediate
prosecution without investigation-of
the bril- gravel trust. So only will Jus
tice be done and the feelings of the
populace held in check.-New York
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

That higher education is delivering
at least one important brand of the
goods is made apparent by the an
nouncement that Harvard men have
the distinct reputation of being the
best dancers of any group of young
men In this country"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

New Yorlx's bookmakers are evidently
of the opinion that Mr.. Bryan is likely
II be the Democratic presidential NOM
inee. They have made a book on pos
sible combination of the presidential
nominees of both parties. And they
offer less odds on the combinations
where Mr.. Bryan's name figures than
they do on any Of the other combi-
nations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL-

When Taft was defeated in New
Jersey, how do you think Roosevelt?
(Quick, Watson, the big stickD
If you dulled the edge of a sabre,
would it cutlass?
MANY are called but few get up.)
Even a boost for the Panama expo
sition at Frisco, asks: If and are
4, is 1915?
Maybe so, but heard differently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
HAYWOOD AGAINST THRIFT.

mo dollar should earn a dollar" IS
1t seems, the motto of Haywood, chief
of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Any Woodworking man who has de-
posted a few. dollars at interest in a
savings bank is thus shown to be an
enemy of labor. Mr.. Haywood's scheme
Tor the reorganization of society is NOT
likely to be enthusiastically received by
any thrifty person. The kind of a new
world he would create is beyond all i'm
agination.--New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

All of the clergymen of the Episco-
pal diocese of Kansas have Joined in
the excellent movement of refusing to
marry couples who cannot produce
health certificates from reputable physi-
clans. Let the good work go on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

George w. Perkins is said to be en-
thusiastic over the outlook for the
nomination of Colonel Roosevelt. This
is only natural. When a man pays
big price for anything he expects to
get value received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

Evidently there will be no need of
any new-fangled machinery for the re-
cal! of judges to remove. Judge Han
ford from the federal bench.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

Justice r. A. Burch, Of the supreme
court, has recently been placed on the
list of contributors to the Michigan
Law Review, a magazine published Fy
the law department of the University
Of Michigan, from which institution
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

No doubt about it. Kaiser Wilhelm
Is monarch of all he surveys. This is
made. apparent by the news that he
chooses his wife's hat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

Speculation as to what Colonel
Roosevelt will do in the matter of go
ing to Chicago or in anything else is
utterly futile. The colonel seldom
knows what he is going to co until he
does it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10

An official parliamentarian has been
chosen for the Republican national
convention. Provision should be made
to arm him with at least a dozen Cat
ling guns so that he can enforce his
decisions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal IL O member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news Or
Eanfzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose,