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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
HYHAWKER JOT:S

Range cattle, reports the discerning
Englewood Leader-Tribune, are begin
ming to smile at the sight of green
grass.
When it is too wet to pillow. points
out the Olathe Mirror, 1t is just wet
enough to drag the roads. Drag the
roads
Always remember to be gentleman,
advises the Associate Editor of the
Observation-Disclosures, unless you are a
woman.
Did you ever notice, asks the Osa-
watomie Graphic, that the doll face"
usually advertises a doll head"-full
of sawdust?
Civic pride, as displayed by the
Harrington Times: The only things
that drag in this town are the city 8
road drags.
Furnished by the king correspon-
dent of the Barber County Index: In
the spring, the young mans fancy
hose begin to reappear. In the spring,
the ladies' bonnets get little bit
more queer.
To run a newspaper, says the Le-
banon Times, without occasionally pub
fishing an item that is untrue, or with
out giving offense, is like running
railroad without having accidents and
smash-ups. 1t can't be done.
Will Palmer, of the Jewell County
Repu blican, has concluded that the dis
LT1DuI1On OF wafer Is like IIlS ulSLI4Ou-
ton of wealth, a hard thing to manage
Verd Napier of the Blue Mound Sun,
says that too many happy courtships
are broken up by marriage.
It will not be long, remarks the
Hazleton correspondent of the Bar
Der County Index, until the weeds be-
gin to show up in the gardens. and
then see if that garden microbe hasn' t
moved to some other locality. 1t never
did stay long enough to catch the hoe
ing stage.
One of the most unusual of the young
women of the world is a resident of
Jewell City. The Jewell County Repub-
lican reports that she always buys her
spring hat at the beginning of the
millinery season, but never wears it to
church on Easter Sunday. Maybe she
is not church-goer.
Peter Doubt, according to the Min
neapolis Messenger, asked his wife the
other day whom she would name as CO.
respondent when she sued for divorce.
Nobody" she said. Couldn't make a
jury believe that any woman would
take up with you" Mr.. Doubt carried
in the coal that evening without being
reminded of it.
Two Syracuse children, four years
old, were playing. One. pretending to
stir something in a can finally ex-
claimed: g dam hard" This
strong language was family over
HedTQ ana Sn0 was asked TO repeat II
before getting licked. Rolling her eyes
innocently she replied, 1T said it was
damp and hard For a four-year-
old that is surely going some.-Syra-
cuse Journal.
One of the things which is exasper-
ating to milIiner, reports Mrs. Tom
Thompson in her part of the Howard
Courant, is for Mrs. Thus-and-So,
previous to the Easter opening, to take
her last years hat and bend 1t up at a
contrary angle, I'LL its crown with
flowers of former seasons, and go
sailing down street some sunny after
noon underneath it, and then all week
following have women come into the
shop and ask to be shown shapes
similar to Mrs. Thus-and-So's. 1 am
sure it came from your place"
know this is true. 1 have the MILL
ner's word for it. Besides I had to buy
something foolish in order to appease
her wrath
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

The topeka youth VINO pOtted MS
step-father and was fined five for
shooting in the city limits" may be
reimbursed. Mamma has sued the
wounded near-parent for divorce, and
she can return the five as soon as she
gets her alimony.
The first real housefly of the season
made a brief call at our house last
evening. The reason for the brev1ty
of his call was the agility with which
Satevepost, folded it lengthwise, and
followed the instructions laid down
by Old Doc Crumbine.
magazines we know. It not only con-
tafnS reasonable editorials by Hon.
Sam Blythe, but folded properly, it
makes lovely fly swatter.
BY his own fireside-or beside the
gas stove where a fire ought to be
the average citizen can think he would
be just as heroic as the next man III
confronted by a great disaster. May
be we differ from the average in this
respect; it gives us cold feet to even
think about a swim in ice water.
And maybe that is because our ex-
perience in that line is more extensive
than that of the average citizen who
lives to think about it.
There is nothing to take the pep"
out of a man that can compare with
cold water.
The prettier the girl you meet on
the street, the uglier the man or bull
dog following her.
Before the wedding, man wouldn't
think of bringing the girl a bunch
of candy in anything but fancy
box. Afterward, she may consider
herself blamed lucky If he even bring
home a nickePs worth in a paper
sack.
And that isn't all. The vodeevil
joke about the man who didn't chase
a street car after he caught 1t, is
applicable to so many different things
that there is no use trying to enum-
crate them.
Owner of a kid of school age, after
at the decision that the only way for
a pupil to get a good grade is to be
a mind reader and make the same
guess as the teacher makes.
Paul Adams has been married
three days-and he is in New Orleans.
Therefore he has two reasons for
being happy, and is entitled to them.
The newspapers say that a French
man committed suicide by the aero
plane route. If he started awaiting,
the charge has been proven. When
would-be suicide tries to hang him
self, the rope may break, and when
he jumps off a bridge, some feeble
wop may pull him out with
boat hook, but the aviator who sticks
to it always gets results.
The only way to make some peo-
pie believe a remedy is any good is
to make 1t so nasty that it is worse
than the disease. I
The North Atlantic is not the
only place icebergs have been en-
They are meeting them
on the Alaskan coast, and Hon.
is encountering lot of
little bergs in Kansas.
Detectives have been hunting for
stray Aliens in the Hillsville district
for a month. 1t begins to look like
they would have to wait until the
fugitives ran out of chewing tobacco, |
and voluntarily surrendered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NOAL4L..

Is the gas company's bill the Charge
of the Light Brigade?
(To the long boat, men, before she
SinkS.1
Would you say a man from Chicago
who couldn't stand the street traffic
was illinois?
(Run, man! RUM! The bloodhounds
are on your trail,)
If they played ball in the cemetery
would Potter's field?
(JohnlIi Your manners need repair
fnGN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

IlI-advised praise has spoiled many
a promising career.
AS soon as a secret is told to some
body 1t ceases to be one.
Too many people fight in the battle
of life with concealed weapons.
X y
There would be more to recommend
free speech if it did not result in SC
many senseless arguments.
You can't convince married men that
there is not something fundamentally
wrong with women; they're so fond OIL
housekeeping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

No Jays history seems to be COM
plete at the present time without the
report of an aviator having fallen &c
his death. Notwithstanding this. some
enthusiastic statistician is sure to is
sue soon tumble Of figures to prove
that football is more dangerous and
fatal sport than aviation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

Topeka's fans should encourage by
their generous patronage the baseball
team, and especially during the early
stages of the season. The team looks
good. 1t will get better If it is givel
hearty support at the beginning of the
season. Playing to empty benches has
the same sort of effect on baseball
players as playing to empty seats has
on actors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

Present indications are that the Kan
sas State fair to be staged at Topeka
this fall will be an exposition COM
mensurate in every way with the ag-
ricultural supremacy of Kansas. Now
is the time for every Topekan that
leaves the town for a short or long
trip to talk state fair to the friends
and strangers he meets along his way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

If Englishmen of prominence had
been as numerous among the passen
gers on the Titanic as were Americans,
the chances are there wouldn't have
been much room in the boats for the
women passengers. Perhaps, though,
Mr.. Ismay is not representative of the
class of Englishmen to which he be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

Congressman McKinley's charges that
huge sums of money have been and
are being expended in the furtherance
of the Roosevelt campaign are alto
gether too serious to be idle. No man
would make such charges unless he
had pretty reliable information on
which to base them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

Mr.. Ismay, ]. Bruce Ismay to be cor
rect. is welcome to his life that he took
such good care to save. 1t will be a
miserable one. The story of the dis
aster to the Titanic will live in the
minds of men as long as this Ismay
is on earth. Wherever he goes, he is
sure to see ten thousand times ten
thousand fingers of scorn pointing at
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

If the federal government is as long
in paying its share of the cost of To-
peka's white way as the state govern
ment has been in meeting its obliga-
tons for the pavement around the CAPT
tol square, Topeka is in for a good
wait for the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

From the actions of the senate finance
committee in reporting adversely the
tariff bills which have been passed by
the house of representatives, it is like
~ that any tariff legislation which
may be passed at this session of con-
gress will be of the old-fasioned com
promised variety. And that is a pref
ty Door kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
longs

There is at least one political GER
tainty. Oscar w. Underwood is one of
the Democratic presidential candidates
who will be in the contest until it is
brought to a conclusion. Alabama
delegates to the Baltimore convention
have been instructed to vote for him
until a nomination for president shall
have been made"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

present conditions every passenger who
crosses the North Atlantic takes his
life in his hands. Seeing America
first will therefore be stimulated
among those inclined to travel who
have the price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

But British seamanship and disci-
pline prevailed runs the story of the
wreck of the Titanic in telling of what
occurred on board just after the crash
came. notable exception must be
made in respect to the actions of j.
Bruce Ismay, the president Of the White
Star line and one of its principal own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

The fact is that Taft, by words and
by acts. has gone further, says Har-
per's Weekly, in defying the southern
machines, and in denouncing pie
counter rule, than Roosevelt ever
dared to go. But his more po-
litical astute predecessor is the last
man living to be entitled to talk self
righteously about the patronage anc
the presidency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

Transatlantic tourist travel is likely
not to be so popular for a while, or
until the destruction of the Titanic is
forgotten, as it has been, and especial
" when such an expert in the premises
As Admiral Rawax SAYS that under
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
FULL. LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

When it comes to blowing ones own
horn Colonel Roosevelt is in a class
by himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

Rantaway-I'm going to leave the stage.
Friend-You'H be missed II you do oil
man Rantaway-Thats just the reason
I'm going to retire. I'm tired of being
hit--Boston Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
KANSAS CONTENT
HE NEVER READ.


we note by the papers that the Hon.
ironically speaking, Richard Croker is
to tear himself from his pleasant Eng
lsh and Irish estates long enough to
make another visit to this home of the
brave, so called, where he acquired the
price of said estates. The story of how
ne acquired the price is a story of
Iammany politics fairly familiar to
most newspaper readers OF little
while ago: a story of graft and getting
away with it; of putting over men and
contracts, franchises and policies for a
consideration. Croker was clever;
doubly clever, it seems to US, in that
he didn't get caught by the wrong
crowd, and that he knew when he had
enough; when to quit. To know when
to quit is the secret of gambling. as
well as some other schemes which can't
be called a game of chance.
Croker knew and chose that finest
sort of life, the life of a country gem
tleman, which suggests health and calm
enjoyment, horses and dogs and birds
flowers, fresh air, green fields and so
much that is pleasant. A good dodger
was Mr.. Croker, thus escaping much
that might have followed exposure of
what is only limited. But he didn't es-
cape entirely. Announcement of his
proposed return to this country Is sig
nal for interviews and "reminiscences OF
the former Tammany boss. In one in
terview, he is quoted as saying he never
reads, and has forgotten politics To
forget politics is some solace, surely,
but never to read is the reverse a pun
ishment, indeed.
Never to read; never to know the
thoughts and tales and verses of Dick
ems, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Hugo,
kfpling, Irving, Doyle, Stevenson,
Hawthorne, Longfellow and a hundred
others who wrote things worth while,
is to miss much of life one cannot live
for himself. nor see nor feel. One ran
of course, live without books, as a GER
tain gourmond pointed out, but It
wouldn't really be living after all; an
existence made bearable only by that
ignorance which some have said is
bliss, but which isn't.
So Mr.. Croker never reads, and the
knowledge may be consoling to many
who have envied hin his life Of retir-
edfredom paid for with New York
money; he is missing so much that they
may buy for six bits at any busy book
store.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
DON'T LOAF.

1t is wicked to loaf. Every man
is created for a purpose and he has
no right to shirk that responsibility.
If you have friends or money, that
simply increases your responsibility.
No man has right to loaf. Nothing
can be more humiliating to a parent
than to know that his son is a con-
ing his living from the toll of other
hands and creating nothing.-Casso-
day Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
ny TIE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONa

The Topeka youth who potted his
step-father and was fined five for
shooting in the city limits" may be
reimbursed. Mamma has sued the
wounded near-parent for divorce, and
she can return the five as soon as she
gets her aIimony
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

There shall be no evil happen to the
Just; but the wicked shall be filled with
mischief Proverbs XII q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20

The first real housefly of the season
made a brief call at our house last
evening. The reason for the brevity
of his call was the agility with which
we grabbed the current issue of the
Satevepost, folded it lengthwise, and
followed the instructions laid down
by Old Doc Crumbine.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-06
CANADIAN IMPORTANTLY.

Canada always has keen eye to her
own provincial interests. 1t will be re-
membered that in order to obtain ac-
cess TO the northern Pacific ocean. Can"
ada insisted that when IN our treaty
with Russia at the TING of the pnr'
chase Of Alaska, the boundaries were
described as sinuous, and following the
course Of tide water, running ten miles
removed therefrom, that meant a
straight line drawn from point to point,
which would give Canada as many
ports as she liked on the inlets from
the sea, But the English Judge whose
voice was the deciding one in determiu-
ing this matter, decided against Can
ada, as naturally he had to do if he
would give the language Of the treaty
effect. This was very much to the dis.
content Of Canada, but she had to sub
nit
And now Canada sets forth her
Fright to equal treatment with the
United states in the Panama Canal,
which the United States has built. II
seems curious indeed that Canada
should consider that she has any rights
in that canal. since She did not put up
one cent for constructing it, aud since
the treaties which Canada refers TO in
her argument were expressly abrogated
by the second treaty between Secretary
| Hay and Lord pauuccfotc. Indeed, the
! L. :, Senate made it a condition that
| the United States should have free
band in building and regulating the ca.
nal before il would agree 10 the treaty
| or 10 proceed with the canal enter
prise. That treaty, Of course. provided
that all nations should bc on an equal
! ity in tho nse OF that canal but a:
| President TAFT fairly points out, il i,
Impossible to consider that the Unite,
States would or did stipulate against
Itself in It's agreement 10 treat all ma
tons with impartiality in the use oI
that canal. The equality clause merely
applies 10 nations other than our own
that wish to avail themselves of tn,
use OF that canal. AS matter Of fact
the United States is under no ohlipa
ton TO build canal; il can leave i
unfinished II il chooses; il can Gnisl
1t TO allow OF the passage of only Ger
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-06
MISS BoARDMAN DECORATED.

In the circular which Colonel James
A. Irons, Of the Twentieth Infantry,
is sending to citizens here in support
Of the movement for relief for the
Balkan sufferers, he quotes the appeal
made by Miss Mabel T. Boardman,
member of the American Red Cross at
Washington, ID. G.. Her appeal is IN
behalf of the International Red Cross
committee at Geneva and each of the
Red Gross societies Of Turkey, Bulgaria,
Servia. Greece, and Montenegro, which
have asked aid from the United States.
Her appeal is strong and effective
one.
In this connection it is matter Of
interest TO learn that the new Mikado
OF Japan has conferred a decoration on
Miss Boardman for her valuable SER
vices to Japan through the Red Cross,
The Influence Of this country in amel-
oratiug the horrors Of war IS recog-
niZcd by the Mikado In his decoration
Of Miss Boardman, and there IS no
doubt but that much has been accom-
pIished both on land and sea in reiev-
ing combatants from hard conditions
and protecting noncombatants, through
the influence Of the United States. II
is recognized everywhere that "no
other country has done so much to use
the Red Cross organization Tor this
mitigation Of suffering in remote coun-
tries as has the United States" and
the official recognition by the Mikado
of the philanthropic efforts Of Ameri-
can citizens is most welcome. Miss
Boardman, as the leader in the United
States of this move for relief for the
Balkan suffering, will naturally take
great satisfaction ia the decoration
from the Mikado, with his recognition
Of the leading influence of the United
States in this. humane direction
The relief which Colonel Irons has in
charge for the benefit of Balkan suf-
ferers is to take the form of q concert
in the Tabernacle next Tuesday even.
ing, at which he will have the Tween
| tieth Infantry band, with leading musi'
clans of this city who are generously
! co.operating in this movement, which
is expected to yield good results; aud
the way that the people of this city
have taken hold of it, leaves little
doubt but that it viii be one Of the
most successful musical events ever
| given in Salt Lake
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-06
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1912

upon the Republican party with crush
ing force.
II is pitiful TO have 10 say IT, but the
fact il; that any assurance from Coioncl
Roosevelt or from anybody for him, can
not nc expected to bind his acticn; for
be has himself given the most absolute
proof that any such promise VIII not
bind him Us against his own subsequent
inclinations. In excuse for his candi-
dacy the present year. he urged that
what he meant when eight years ago
he disclaimcd a further candidacy, was
n consecutive candidacy: but this was
evidently an aftcrthought and was not
in his first statement at all And since
it will be easy to persuade him that the
Progressive party viii be snutted out
if he docs not stand as its candidate
four wears hence. the probability j.
that he will again be candidate MT
that time. Indeed, a dispatch practi-
cally announces this with tho evident
suggestion that he wants to capture
the Republican party for the purpose
of his candidacy, IN spite of his dc
nunciations of that party as corrupt
and effctc.
The coming Progressive National
Conference in Chicago. however, may
possibly develop something on this line
that will be absolute, and that the poo-
pie can either put faith in or tlnd
reason to fully stigmatize Roosevelt as
one in whom no faith can be put
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-06
ANOTHER DISCLAIMER,

Once more We have nm assurance that
Colonel Roosevelt viii not repeat aud
be candidate again for the Prcsi
dency of the United States. This comes
from Mr.. Charles Sumner Bird, de-.
feated Progressive candidntc for Gov
eruor Of Massachusetts, in an address
made in Boston at the Progressive ban
quet held on Wednesday evening.
No assurance like this. however. can
be as direct and as positive as the pub
lie disclaimer made eight years ago and
repeated five years ago, by Colonel
Roosevelt himself He stated. in fact.
that his candidacy would be a caIam
ity 10 tho country, and such indeed il
has proved; and vet he stated the cal
amjtous result Of that candidacy as q
reason why he should not enter tho
race. But he did enter the race. and
the calamity which be foresaw came
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-06
DEMOCRATS AND CIVIL SERVICE

There is good deal Of erumbliug
in the Democratic ranks, or as the
Muewumps would say, among thu
spoiIsmen,D at the dreary prospect OF
there not being Offices enough at Presi'
dent Wilson's disposal to 90 around.
The withdrawal into the civil services
class bv President Taft Of some $4,000
fourth-clas5 postmasters positions
from the appointive class, appears tc
create an aching void among faithful
Democrats, and the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican, in view Of the grumblipg;
asks WHY the Democrats do not make
thorough job of it by repeating the
civil service law while they are abou;
it.
1t will be remembered tnat that -
precisely what the House Of Represeu
tatives started TO do at the regular ses
sion which began year ago The
House passed a bill providing that the
tenure OF Office under the civil service
should last only few years, and thon
the incumbent should be obliged to
pass another examination, and so on
successively until finally the Republi
can occupant of the position could be
got rid Of.
1t is certain that the Democrats will
not snG'er themselves to be tbwarted
in their desire to have control Of The
public offices by any obstacle that they
themselves can remove; and If they
are able to so amend the civil service
| law as to throw open the competition
at least, for all the positions TO Demo.
Gratis under the manipulation Of Dem
ocratic civil service board, IT need
cause no surprise to see the Democrats
| take that course, or even repeal the
civil service law altogether; for they
arc extremely DESTROYS 10 have the Of
fees, and naturally, since few Demo
crafts are in Office. The party mon wonld
consider 1t great anomaly to have
control OF the offices and not occupy
them. Evidently some surprises arc
IN store for those simple enough to
think that the Democrats will he cou.
tent to remain out of Office while their
! party is in power.