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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-12

Now that golf has caused the death
OF DR.. Jas. p. Root, a noted dentist
OF Kansas City, it may be mans
game after all.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-12

According to the K. c. Journal and
GID of St. Louis, the Progressives
are falling over each other to get into
the Taft camp. Good thing for the
Tafties that they have a party to draw
from, for they are going to need all
the votes they can get to keep from
going third.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-12

Well, Maine went shell bent" all
No Progressive ticket there
this time, but will be next time.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-12

The high price of beet and pork
during the last year has been blamed
on the scarcity of feed. Now that a
$500 million bushel corn crop is be-
ing gathered what will the excuse be
kansas City Star.
Scarcity of cattle and hogs.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-12

We acknowl, DE our thanks for a
COPY of Mis- ,urI S;rte Fair Song, COM
posed by L. n Fagr,,, Sedalia. Mo-.
rnbllshcd hy A. W. Perry and sons
Music Co., Srdali'. Mo-, Price 'SOc.
As it viii be played l.! a famous
Chicago Band and 'extetle Of singers
during + .lr week, Sept. 2Slh to Oct.
4th, it vii, Will necessary for you to
be present and hear it if you would
get the full benefit Of the inspir-
ing words and music.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-12
"Young men, ahoy!
s'What is it1'' one asks.

"hdt 10 hG tuC dSNS.
The rapids are below you"
Ha! ha! we have heard Of the rap
ids below u.s." laughs the man, ''but
we are not such fools as to get into
them; when we find We are going too
fast to suit our convenience, then
hard up the helm and steer to shore ;
when we find we are passing a given
point too rapidly, then we will set the
mast in the socket, hoist the sail and
speed to land"
'.Young men, ahoy!" comes the
voice again.
What is it1"
1.-The rapids are below you"
ala! ha! we will laugh and quaff;
all things delight US; what care we
for the futurel No man ever saw it.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof We pleasure as it flies.
This is the time for enjoyment; time
enough 10 steer out OF danger when
we find we are sailing too swiftly with
the stream"
Young men, ahoy!"
"What is it2"
i 1.-The rapids are below you. Now
see the foaming all around you! See
how fast you go. Now hard up the
helm! Quick! Quick! Pull for
your very lives-pull till the blood
starts from your nostrils and the veins
stand like whipcords upon the brow!
Set the mast in the socket; hoist the
sail!"
All! it is too late. %Shrieking, ours
ing, bowling, disappearing, over you
go; and thousands thus go over every
year by the power of evil habits, de-
claring, "when | find out it is injur-
ing me, then l will give it up"
The power Of evil habits is decept.
i've and fascinating, and the man by
coming to false conclusions argues his
way down to destruction.--G.ugh.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-12

He who is always watching his neigh
or will bear watching.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-12

Furniture o. all kinds Tepasree
and satisfaction given.
KiDwllL = TALHO1T.
Furniture Sure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
says UNCLE CAV

Remember your hobbies to keep
them harmless. You're too likely to
keep them holy and insist that every
body in the block present living sacri-
fees of time and patience and indi-
Vidual opiniOn-you have forgotten
that this is a free country, and that
you have no legal rights to make your
neighbor worship your idols. If you
do this, your hobby becomes a hob
goblin and the town marshal should
Jail you for harboring unlicensed ami
mails.
Hobbies in the way of work are
ordinarily innocuous. They keep you
out of mischief and thus preserve a
feeling of amitv between you and the
people next door. 1t is your moral and
intellectual hobbies that are likely to
keep the recording angel recording
the curses of your neighbors. Most of
US are unreasonably impressed with
the holiness of our own convictions.
Robbed of lot of Self-sugaring folde-
rol, our line of reasoning in regard to
the hobby of conscience or opinion is
something like this: 1t is holy be-
cause it is mine, and because it is holy
all others shall fall down and worship.
OF course that isn't what we say,
but that is what we mean. And there's
sometimes the devil to pay if others
don't see the things just our way.
Which is quite correct, for the devil
himself invented such hobbies.
1t is quite proper for you to have
your moral convictions and intel
lectual convictions as WELL and, if
you will, it is your inalienable right
to convert such of your neighhors as
are willing to listen to you. But it is well
for you to remember that you are of
the earth earthly and that you can't
do the problems in the back of the
arithmetic without slipping a cog.
Which proves that, besides being
earthly your mental equipment is dis
tinctIy limited. Reasoning thus, it
should occur to you that there may
be something the matter with your
own little rule of thumb for human
conduct or your hard-shelled theory of
the origin of man.
If you really wish to be happy, you
must remember that moral and intel
lectual hobbies are like family ske1e-
tons-to be kept in the c1oset.-(Copy-
right, 1912, by w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.l
Getting even is an expensive luxuary.
Even a woman never learns to sneeze
gracefully.
kitten is almost as frisky and sense
less as a flirt.
Staying at home is a virtue few people
try to cultivate.
The hot air treatment for financial ills
is seldom a curative.
Don't tax your friends overmuch when
you try to make touch.
The higher criticisms of the drama
usually come from the gallery gods.
A man is no sooner elected to ofticethan
he begins to kick because it isn't more
remunerative.
And many a married woman thinks it s
up to her to assert her independence by
abusing her husband.
Every woman Is sorry for some other
woman because of what her husband told
her about the other woman's husband.
1t isn't any wonder that a man is an
noyed when he gets the worst of a horse
trade, as that was what he was trying
to hand the other fellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
..p117E SKY" ADVERTISING.

1ra,sss and it's bank commissioners
1o1,a,, have~achieved considerable
and deserved fame of late because VI
the new statute in operation here which
is more Familiarity and eXpresslVeiS
known as 1.-THE blue sky law f-s'i-
votes are made that under its opera
49,, the credulous and gullible people
80 tho state are saved severa mlillohs
of dollars in the aggregate each year.
rbe eet-rich-uuick artists who woulo
coll them stock in all kinds OF paper
ventures cannot get at them This Ia"
n-a,zer+s the sale of any kind OF STOCK
- Eansas unless the individual, COM
many or corporation floating the STOCK
gets the necessary PERMISSION HUN III
state banking department
IT'S an excellent law. But there Wouiu
seem TO be need of additional leglsla-
ton to make it more effective II ms
legislation concerns the prohlpltlon ol
advertising such illicit stock schemes
in the newspapers and other puphca-
lions of the state BEFORE TINS Diue
slxv law went into effect it was not an
uncommon thing for an agent OF one OF
these hy-by-night concerns to locate
for a few weeks in each OF the I'M
nortant cities of Kansas. He would ad-
vertise his stock for sale extensively in
the local newspapers. This sort of adj
vertising was accepted in good faith Tor
the most part by newspapers They
had no -yay of ascertaining the legiti-
macv of the enterprise. All this sort
of thing has been done ava with by
the "blue sky law
| The ''blue sky promoters, though
are resourceful. and they seem to be
| circumventing the law to a greater Or
less extent They take up their head
quarters in other states, or where the
mythical home office of the concern
thew represent is located. From there
thew are sending out their advertising
to the newspapers in Kansas, with re-
quests that prospective customers COM
municate with them by letter. Soma
advertising of this sort has appeared in
| some of the Kansas publications lately.
If may be that it has been accepted in
good faith by the newspapers printing
| it. However that may be, it is merely
giving the opportunity to the blue
sky promoters TO conduct a mail order
! business in their worthless wares If
the state deems it right to prohibit the
sale of "blue sky stock in Kansas, as
it surely is, it is equally right that the
newspapers of the state be forbidden
to print advertisements OF blue sky
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

Massachusetts, has an agricultural
coHege. Agriculture, in Massachusetts,.
consists of raising college professors.
cobble stones and cranberries.
+. S--We forgot to add that near
wooden goods is also an agricultural
product of Massachusetts.
LIKEWISE patent medicines and
SHOES. CAV, heck, there's no use try
ing to enumerate all the agricultural
courses a Massachusetts, agricultural
college should include in its curricu-
lum.)
Beauty patches have come back into
style in London. The return of the
beauty patch would be welcomed in
almost any locality, if there was no
restriction on the size of the patch.
While some women might require a
patch the size of a dinner plate. 9TH
ers could stick on a dab the size of
a pin head and meet both fashion and
popular approval.
But as to the invisible stocking fad
which is now raging in Paris: they
may consider it something new, but
the society leaders in the Fiji Islands
have been following same for quite
while.
Sometimes the deceased is. Landed
because he made a good husband, -
when the credit for making a good
husband of him really belongs to the
We have, through courtesy of Hon.
Teddyfelt, acquired a new one; to wit:
Criminal farce" We saw one several
years ago at a local theater the crime
being the price of admission, but didn't
know how to describe it in two words.
But if this alleged campaign lasts
a few weeks longer, and the A. P.
continues to put up for the howls of
losing candidates, we expect to i'm
prove our vocabulary about 81 per
cent.
A little man has this satisfacti To
be well dressed, he has to wear small
er clothes than a large man, but he
can. during this Gladstone Balmy
Spring season, carry just as big a
handkerchief and find just as much
use for it.
We never honed for a job as polar
explorer. We have always suspected
that going on a polar exploration was
much like going to a picnic: Anxious
to start-and a dangsight anxiouser
to get home.
This one may need an excessive per
cent of benzoate of soda,-BUT: by
way to keep the house warm will be
to keep the cellar coaled.
BECAUSE, as soon as the weather
gets warm enough to bring forth the
dandelion blooms, Hon Gas company
vice pipes onto the supply we have
been enjoying this winter.
Sometimes a girl has to wait, before
coming out in society, until her par
ents find time and money to break in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
LAYHAWKER JOT.S

The grounding saved his reputation
in Kansas, says the Osborne Farmer.
but he sacrificed all his friends.
No wonder you can't keep Kansas
down, remarks the Beloit Gazette. One
factory in Hutchinson turns out daily
1000 packages of yeast.
The story is told that an Irishman
while passing through n graveyard
saw these words on a tombstone: Il
still live Pat scratched his head
moment and then said: 'Well now, if
1 was dead, / believe I'd own up to it. ;
-Sedgwick Paragraph.
Mr.. Henry Silvius- is the owner of
nice fat hog, which lived for three
weeks in a snowdrift without a bite
to eat, relates the st. Mary's Star. Il
happened like this: Three weeks ago
when Mr.. Silvius shipped some hogs,
during the heavy snow several of the
hogs were lost, and as the snow drifted
over the hog shed and fence, they
could not get in their pen. Thinking
however, those lost were dead as they
found one dead, Mr.. Silvius did not
seek the rest. Last Sunday, as the
snow was melting, one of the lost hogs
came from it's hiding place, a snow
drift, where it had been for three
weeks without a bite to eat. The hog
had lain down near a tree and the
snow had drifted over it. Although
somewhat poorer, the hog apparently
was feeling none the worse for it's long
rest and fast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE,

You can't tell how many fish will be
caught by the cost of the tackle used
In the final Endurance contest the
sweepstakes prize probably will go to a
bore.
No man should waste his time acquiring
bad habits, if he feels he must waste it.
1t must be worth more than the post
office pays to be a Republican down
south.
Men dislike to pay taxes; women go
them one better: they detest the idea of
taxes.
Generally speaking, love letters are bad
enough without injecting poetry into their
composition.
1t is our theory that the chronic fault
finder doesn't do enough of that kind of
work on himself.
Sometimes a man who doesn't treat his
wife as perfect lady will resent any in
timation that she isn't.
Tanning the wild gooseberry is our re-
vised notion of nothing much in the way
of horticultural achievement.
An Atchison man never swung so far to
the bad in his life as he did when he
thought he was being fair.
prominent skin specialist says that If
wool tends to irritate the skin it is a sign
that the skin is in poor condition, prob
ably due to insufficient bathing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
Reindeer in Alaska.

1t is only few years since the
United States government, as an ex-
pertinent which it was hoped would
help the Eskimos and Indians of
northern Alaska, imported a few score
of reindeer from Norway, with num-
Der of I4appS skilled in their care.
Subsequently other reindeer were
brought from the opposite coast of
Asia and although it was known that
the particular form of moss or lichen
on which these animals live, and which
flourishes under the snow. was abun-
dant within the American Arctic Cir
Gle, the attempt to introduce reindeer
was regarded by a majority of our
citizens as being quite as wild and
visionary as was the purchase of
Alaska by Secretary Seward in 1867.
The few score reindeer has grown
to 27,325. distributed in forty-two
herds. More than one-half, or 1929,
are owned by natives who, before the
advent of the reindeer, were in a state
of the most wretched poverty. OF the
remainder, $3.50 are owned by the
United States. 4.194 by missions, and
44O7 by Lapps. The total income of
the Eskimos from the reindeer in
dustry, during the year last reported,
was S24, $4,000. 1t promises well for
the conscience of the nation that we
have come at length to recognize kim
ship with our little brown brother
whom, heretofore, we have left to be
despoi1ed by the trader-The Christian
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
EDVER Using Talks
BIZ WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

Mr.. G. L. Leonard, vice president of c.
A. Weed & Co., of Buffalo and Bingham
ton, dropped in my office the other day
to say few encouraging words about
the work that is being done by the adj
vertising forces all over the country in
raising the standard of advertising.
To use his own words:
"Our firm would be glad to pay double
its present rates to the newspapers If all
of the advertisements printed in the news
papers were known to be absolutely re-
Nable''
The great majority of men engaged in
business in every community give to
their customers a square deaI-a dollars
worth of merchandise for dollar.
ways some business men in every COM
munity whose last thought is to give any
body a square deal, or to give anybody
a dollars worth of merchandise for a dol
lar. These are the people that minimize
the value OF advertising for everybody
However, the reliable advertising move
ment is becoming countrywide and the
feeling among the straightforward mer-
chants is that they must lend their as
sistance to the advertising workers to
bring about the universal standardization
of all advertisements printed in all pub
locations
Mr. Leonard's suggestion that adver-
Users will be willing to pay higher rates
to publications that can guarantee the re-
liability of the advertisements they print
is good one.
such a condition would be good busi-
ness not only for the publication. but for
the advertiser. 1t would practically double
the value of every advertising announce
ment.
(To be continued-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29

respite from this unutterable long
ing. this pent-up love that is shadow
ing every CLEAN of happiness in life"
She ceased speaking, but the little
professor was looking with unseeing
eyes at the white hand that lay idle on
her lap; he had scarcely been needing
her words, for the realization had
stolen over him that something big and
desperately necessary to his happiness
was being dragged out of his reach.
Suddenly, and with a force undream-
ed of. he turned and swept Nadine off
the arm chair and into his arms
Stopi Don't tell me anything more
about this love of yours-I cannot stand
it, The little professor was trembling
and his voice was even more husky
than Madness own. You have breathed
your low tones into my ear and the
scent of your hair in my nostrils and
now your heart is pounding against my
own-and when you have set my soul
think I am going to stand by and let
you talk of love for some other man ?
You can struggle all you like, but am
going to hold you for my ownv'
AS suddenly as he had taken her he
let go his clasp, with a contrite realiZa-
ton of what he had done. Forgive me,
Nadine; it all came over me so sud-
denly-just how dear you are to me-"
The little professor made a brave at
tempt at his kindly, paternaI smile
Can you forgive me now and leave
me"
But with a long drawn sigh of con-
tentment Nadine crept back into his
arms and twined her arms about him.
Whom did you think I loved?" she
asked him.-(Copyright, 1912, by Asso-
ciated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
HUA4OR or THE Day

.sHe seems to have the happy faculty
of never attracting any attention to him
SELF $50 he has I shouldn't be at all
surprised If he got to be vice president OF
this country some day. '-Birmingham
Age-Herald-
"I want nice book for an invalid"
"cor,efhing RELIGIOUS madam" "Er-no-
he's convalescent. Boston Transcript.
Young Man-May have your daughter.
eir9 old Gentleman-Yes, IL you can sup
mort her. Remember that my auto goes
with her.-Puck.
Church Trustee-Did you occupy your
last pulpit with credit2 New Rector
EsntireIv There was never any cash con-
nected with it.-Judge.
she-Can you give me tip for tomor-
doyv's races? He-Yes; but in considera-
lion of our long friendship, WON'T
London opinion.
The Hostess-I should have perfect
rs having to live that way that worries
mei-London Opinion.
Tommy-Pop, what is retribution? Tom
my's Pop-Retributi my son, Is some
thing we are always sure VIII overtake
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Record
Damocles saw the suspended sword.
ssI'm all right, unless woman has just
washed the hair and can't do thing with
it, he cried.-Harper's Bazaar
Friend-Now, as I understand IL you and
l. instead of having unequal wealth.
ought to have just the same amount.
sociaIist-Yes- is-how much have
you got?-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If a soldier is loyal is an arbitrator ?
(There's your ring, Clarence. Me
an you is thoroughly
If the ward heelers and the shoe
makers organized could they call
themselves the solar system?
(Avast there, yon land-lubber. You
can't bore holes in my house boat.)
They say fork or comb has teeth,
But 1 never saw one b1te
And that an engagement is a match,
Yet I never saw one light.
They say that flowers have a language,
They why is chrysanthemum
And because the elevator cant talk,
is that why they call It dumbI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few of the politicians seem to think
that silence is golden
X y
Knights-errant are of the past. But
knights-erra are plentiful enough
nowadAvs.
X X
In all probability, the telephone girl
receives many more calls than any
of her sisters.
r. y u
AS a rule, a perfect grammarian
hasn't any thoughts that are worth
while exercising his talent on.
X X
One of the resolutions that it is most
difficult for a woman to keep is not
to buy another thing from the ped
dlers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29

PERHAPS.
It's very plain that in this day
Supporting life's not hard to do.
Just read what certain people say
And it will bring mich joy to you.
Since dollars do not me surround
follow the economists,
And with a pleasure most profound
1 study DER their little lists.
A bit of gingerbread will do,
A date or two is all you need:
OF peanuts now and then few,
A spoon of oil of cottonseed-
What glorious dreams my pulses thrill
The golden age I'm thinking of,
If now it be impossible,
Yet some day we may live on love!
Nathan NJ. Levy, in the New York Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
QUAKER NfEDITATTONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
Maude-"How did her voice sound. Did
it fill the room?" Claude.-"Naw, 1t
emptied it,
You can tell by the high pitched voice
of a grass widow that she is not in the
heyday of life.
Sam-"That's the wrong way to fix
that!' Ham-'How do you known" Sam
why, it's not the way I would do it. .
Gink-'I see they have stepIess trolley
in New York" Dink-''Nuthin' new about
that We've had seatless cars here for
years.
Say, Pat, an wholly do they call loife a
train of events?" Sure Moike, I'm
ashoimed of We. An did We niver hear
it's made of births and exits ?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.1
The simple little frocks a girl loves to
wear are always in books.
Telling secondhand secret is mighty
hard, because everybody else already
knows 1t.
The first thing a man tries to do when
he gets troubles is to load them on
somebody else.
AS soon as the devil finds out a man
to do anything more to get him.
After her own, womans idea of what
would be fine figure for somebody else
is something entirely different from what
it happens to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29

Frederick Gresheirner, a real estate
dealer of Chicago, is entitled to the dis
tinetion of being the most remarkab BILE
man in the world in one particular. He
presented such an attractive appear
ance in a bathing suit that a more or
less prominent musical comedy actress
fell in love with him. 1t is beyond the
ordinary imagination to conceive that
any man could look perfectly grand in
a bathing suit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29

1t is a noticeable fact that not a
word is said about the methods en-
ployed whenever any delegates to the
Chicago convention are chosen and in
structed for Colonel Roosevelt. But any
delegates selected in the same state
and in the same way for President Taft
are at once accused by the Roosevelt
managers of having been chosen by
fraud or in an irregular manner And
preparations are made at once to con-
test their right to seats in the national
convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29

In his announcement that he would
accept Republican presidential NOM
ination for third term, Colonel Roose-
Welt declared that he would abide by
the decision of the national convention.
He does not seem at all willing, though,
to abide by the decision of the conven-
lions and primaries that are necessary
preliminaries to the creation of the
national convention.