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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
AYKAWKER JOTy

Editor burst of the Sabetha Star
has figured it out that the size of a
dollar depends on whether it is COM
ing or going.
The man who started out on the
theory that the world had an open
ing for him, says the Spring Hill New
Era, found it by falling in hole.
UP at Manhattan they call a four
story building a 'sky scraper," notes
the Alma Enterprise, and it adds: ''It
all depends on where you live
When a real tall girl marries a real
snort man, or a real thin man marries
a real fat girl, it isn't always safe to
bet that love is at the bottom of it,
says the Village Deacon of the Os-
borne Farmer. One of them may have
money.
Some people, writes Mack Gretchen
IN the Sedgwick Paragraph, who
wouldn't think of trying to get sugar
for nothing at the grocery store try
to work the newspapers for free adver-
Using, which is part of the newspa-
pers' stock in trade as much as sugar
is part Of the grocer's stock.
who is this fellow Ditto p" asks
Tom Cordry of the Parsons Sun, 'fwho
Hugh Powell swears in his published
statement is managing editor, BUSH
ness manager and publisher of the
Cherryvale Republican, while Powell
only claims to be editor and owner 7?
The name would indicate that he is a
dago."
Cowley county Republicans have set
an unusual precedent by exempting
the lady candidates on the county tick
ct from payment of campaign assess
ments, notes the Kansas City Journal,
and it asks: when woman suffrage
comes and the women win all the nom
nations, as they are sure to do, who
will put up the money for the cam
paigns.'
A few observations by Miss Carlson
of the Lindsborg News: Some folks
count their blessings. Others count
their crosses. What some folks
really need is not so much q motive,
as a. locomotive. If you want
to get the sweetest and best pleasure
found in life make friends of the chill
dren. No use in knocking-un-
less you are a carpenter and can do
some good with your hammer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
Old AGE THE BEST.

There is only one thing We have to
do, and that is to grow CID, writes DR..
Franz Crane in Wop1an's World for
November. That is the due business of
life; it is for that We are put in this
world.
The art of living Is nothing but the
art of growing old.
Instead of looking upon old age as a
wreck of youth, the pitiful remains of n
once valuable life, We should regard It
as the masterpiece of life, that for
which all preceding stages were but
trial essays and preparation.
When Fontanelle was asked what
period of life he considered the most
fcrtul lte, he replied: From sixty to
eighty At that age ones place is fixed.
Ambition and desires have ceased to
torment, and one reaps what he has
sewn. 1t IS the harvest time
Whether you believe this or not de-
Pc nds upon the point of view you take
as to the purpose of human life. If
you think human being is an animal,
put in this world to get all the pleasure
he can, then naturally you conceive old
age to be a calamity. But if you hold
that he is a soul, put here in a body
i'll order to perfect and beautify his
character then you must see that old
age, when the bodily fires have gore
down. and nothing is left but the fine
sold of the spirit, is best of s.ll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

pened and wakened me-" A smile
crinkled her lips. Jack Smith, lad
about twelve, has been chore boy at
our house. He is lazy, dishonest and
untruthful Yesterday I discharged
him. As he was leaving the grounds
another boy came by and bet him
he could not climb a tall tree. Jack
climbed, fell and broke mis- arm. His
father came and told us we should
have to pay him a large sum of
money, damages for the discharged
boys injuries. The only money we
shall pay for that boys broken arm
will be in lawyers fees to fight the
unjust claim. I think our case is
like the Tim Hogan case. I've come
to tell you that I understand now
why the company would not pay Tim
and that you were right"
as that all you have to tell me ?"
His voice was cold. but there was
twinkle in his eyes.
81 don't hate you" After mo-
ment she added, 'I like yor very
much" Another silence. Every
much" she repeated softly. "Do
have to say anything more2"
go on"
"I'll say more when 20 have told
me again that you love me.''-(Copy-
right 1912 by McClure's Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
Beautiful Sunsets

Watching the sunset is a Joy that
never pales, yet only a few people
stand how they are made. Merely to
say that it is due to the dust or to the
moisture does not explain, yet the
matter is entirely simple. Indeed, if
amount of dust or moisture that ex-
listed in the path Of the air that we
see at the time of sunset, he would be
able to prophecy accurately the colors
of the sunset to within a seconds
time.
Sunlight is a mixture of nearly all
colors known, fused to form white,
and which are seen separated in the
rainbow or on q prism of glass. Color
is dependent upon the length of the
waves of light, the orange and yellow
being the long waves and the blue and
green the shortest. The erect of dust
in the air is to stop the direct passage
of light, because the light is reflected
from every piece of dust. The long
rays of light, that is to say, the yell
lows, come through easily, the short
more easily broken up. 1t follows,
therefore, that the sunlight which
reaches the earth contains a yellow
tinge-we speak of golden sunlight
but the light that is stopped is scat
tered in the sky and forms the blue
When the sun is cetting Cor rising)
we see the light through a very much
greater thickness of air. a thickness so
very moist, the blue rays cannot get
through at all. When the density is
at it's greatest only the darkest reds
get through. This was the reason that
after the eruption OF the volcano Kra-
katoa, when the air was filled with the
volcanic dust thrown to a great height,
for nearly two years wonderful sun
sets were seen all over the world. The
dust prevented the blue rays from
coming through, and gave wonderful
yellow and orange effect. Also it will
lie noticed in watching a sunset that
the lighter colors, such as yellow, be-
gin to spread over the sky, even before
the sun has sunk below the horizon,
and that the deeper colors follow in
order as the sun sinks and the rays
have more and more air and dust
particles to pass through At sunrise
The order is reversed and even on a
fine clear day the rosy blush" of
dawn shows this same fact of the
longer reddish light waves being the
first to get througb.-New York
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

out into small suburb. Flint, Mich,
two hours from Detroit, has been
seized as the place for huge automo-
bile factories. A big corn products
plant moved from the middle of Chi
cago to the nearby prairies and a
glucose city Argo, started up.
'Just outside Cincinnati a residen-
tiaI suburb, Norwood, is now the
home of a score of manufacturing
concerns Impelled partly by the ar
bitrary tolls charged on coal carried
across the Mississippi river, industrial
plants have moved over the bridge
from st. Louis and founded a group
of new towns in Illinois. The Stand
ard Oil company, a few years ago,
poured out $3,50O,0oo on the bank of
the Missouri. a few miles from Kan
sas City, and the town of Sugar Creek
sprang up. Staid old Yonkers long
since lost It's individuality in a smoth-
er of hat and carpet factories. In
some sections of the south scarcely a
city of any size lacks one or more
satellites drumming with spindle and
shuttle.
Gary with its $4,000 population,
where six years ago there were only
rolling sand dunes covered with scrub
oak, is thus seen to be but the largest
and most spectacular single fact in a
far reaching Industrial exodus"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
BIG INDUSTRIES MOVING.

While we go about merely talking
back to the land, huge industrial
plants are uprooting themselves bodily
from our congested districts.
Towns made to order entirely, or
with some little village as a core"
says Graham Romeyn Taylor in The
Survey, snatch bundles of papers
from the morning trains. smudge new
postmarks over sheet after sheet of
red postage stamps. edge their way
into the telephone toll books and the
freight tariffs. scrawl their names on
the tags of new coming immigrants
at Ellis Island and become part and
parcel eff up and doing municipal
America before most of their slower
going sister cities have even heard of
their existence.
From the middle of Philadelphia,
several departments of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works have been shunted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
QUAKER fluctuations.
lFrom the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
A game leg-one that has been pulled at
poker.
Social supremacy Is largely a matter OF
knowing the right people to snub.
No, Maude, dear; a girl isn't necessarily
belle just because some fellow has
tolled her so.
Hoax-"Here's an undertaken advertis-
ing cut rates" Joax-'He ought to be
dead cheap.
Many a man who makes reputation
has some difficulty In keeping it frol=
getting furnished.
Palmistry may be all right, but the
wrinkles in woman's face will often t-sll
more than the lines in her hands.
cont try to size up a mans financial
standing from his clothes. Some of the
most gorgeous flowers haven't got a
scent
BIobbs-"My uncle simply dotes on my
aunt SlobbS-'tAs she naturally recipro-
Gates. suppose that makes her an anti
dote.''
Wigg-"Mr. and Mrs. Henpekke don't
agree very well, do they?" Wagg-'+Well,
he agrees with her much more than size
agrees with him.
''One good turn deserves another
quoted the Wise Guy I'm afraid tEat
will never solve the question of perpetual
notion added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Easiest habits to overcome are the goJd
ones.
A woman's idea of saving is to buy on
credit.
No doubt a henpecked man feels bald
even if he is not
Wise men worry over lot of things
that fools never think Of
1t is easier for a young lawyer to get
practice than paying cases.
The mantle of charity is not synony-
nous with the cloak OF friendship.
No man can serve two masters, and
few women can master two servants.
When a woman trusts to her intuition
she likes to have it corroborated by gcs-
sip.
Whenever a man gets into trouble he
always complains that some one pushed
him.
Most men boast of what they are going
to do, but few boast about what they
have done
A man takes desperate chances when he
buys horse covered with a blanket or
gets married
If, as some writer's say man acquires
wisdom through marriage, it is won
der the late Mr. Solomon had wisdom to
throw at the birds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE

Much of the advice that is given &C
freely should be kept for home use.
You can't prove a man is a complete
failure until he quits trying.
Even If there is such a thing luclc,
it is far less reliable than steady work
Time is the greatest remover of conCctt
unless there is some occasion for It.
A man can win argument with a
woman just as often as she wants him T..
Once in awhile there is man so smart
he can learn from the blunders of others.
Those wishing to strengthen their mem
Dry, might try to forget, as one course OF
treatment.
Neither is shiftlessness any more ex-
cusable when 1t is blamed on the aEtiSdC
temperament.
A husband can't be entirely satisfactory
to the wife who is given to expecting a
good deal.
One may love the friend whose faults he
points out, but there are several more ef-
fective ways to prove it.
1t would help some if stage fright were
so distributed that after dinner speakers
would be afflicted occasionally.
Probably sixty per cent. of the praise
one gets is flattery, although the receiver
isn't expected to recognize it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CANERON.

friend of mine who lives near the
! high school, has taken little country
| This girl is going to help her with the
| children and the sewing in return for her
board and room.
| My friend was ttlling me about this ar
rangement. How much time will she
give you?' I asked "Oh, 1 don't know, "
said the lady airlly, IL suppose pap she VIII
Can't you see trouble ahead for those
| two?
I can.
If there is anything on earth that
makes for dissatisfaction and misunder-
standings any more sure'y than an in
definite arrangement like thai. an ex-
change in which il IS not nominated in
the bond exactly what each party gets,
I have yet to find it.
Usually one party is ba1ly cheated and
invariably both parties mink they are
Two old neighboTs of mine used to be
very dear friends until one summer they
foolislly entered into compact that the
horse of the party of the first phrT should
be occasionally allowed to Craze in the
1leId OF the party of the second part n
horse by the party of the second part.
Needless to say these two dear friends no
longer speak.
A young matron who was clever with
her needle consented to help one OF her
young girl friends with her trousseau If
the latter would help her in the care of
fond of sewing and the young girl YVES
her two children. The young mother was
fond of children, and both thought this
occupation and would be an ideal ar
rangement. So it might have been il
they had made any definite contract. AS
it was each woman began to go to mutual
friends, complaining that she was giving
at least twice as much of her time as
the other and through the kind services
of the mutual friends in passing tine word
along, these two also no longer speak.
OF course, everyone who enters into one
of these indefinite arrangements thinks
that between friends there IS no need Of
a definite contract. In reality the closer
the friendship, the greater the need of
definiteneSs, because the tie is tUo
precious to risk breaking.
If you are going to make some ex
change like this why not reduce the ser
vices rendered to a common denomination
of time or money value, and then nego-
tate a fair exchange.
Believe me you will run far less risk of
heart burning and dissa tisfaction- than If
you contented yourself with some vague
and indefinite arrangement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
E2CM OTHER PENS
TREASON in CANADA.

Just as every American wants to
know who's the liar now, so every
Canadian awaits in GREATNESS inter
est the correct answer to the oues-
ton who's the traitor now. A few
months ago Canadian traitors were
those who demeaned themselves 20
profit by truck and trade with the
Yankees. The sting of the taunt was
so keen that it was necessary to find
some. retort,. and.sit has been founc.
Those who believed in reciprocity
with the United States have proved
their loyalty to England by proposing
that the preference to British goods
shall be increased until the tariff on
imports from the motherland is totally
removed. 1t would almost seem that
the reciprocity traitors learned their
tariff reform from Garfield, who was
for that sort of protection which led
to free trade. At any rate the pro-
posal to revive reciprocity, and to sill
ence the cry of treason by coupling
with American reciprocity a progress
sive decrease of the tariff on British
imports, has been made, and is having
great run. A by election campaign
In Manitoba is being managed on this
basis, and the western grain growers
made a formal proposal to the same
effect to the meeting of the Canadian
Manufacturers association. All pro-
fits look alike to the grain growers,
calculated in either dollars or pounds,
and all competition looks alike to the
Manufacturers association. Its mem
bers would just as soon compete with
Americans as with Englishmen, and
their reluctance to allow a reduction
of the tariff to either is a sort of
treason which makes the grain grow
ers' treason to England merely look
IKE loyalty to themselves. The man
ufacturers have that same sense of
self-loyalty in stronger degree than
imperialism Being EN- barrassed for
a reply to the grain growers the man
ufacturers merely laughed at the idea
and the grain growers laughed, too.
It's merry campaign In Canada, with
traitors on every street corner, and
the loyal subjects of his majesty slay-
ing each other with glances of sD.fs,
the while they GENEROUSLY look acrosS
the border after the profits which
they keep out of each others pockets.
New York Times.
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HUNOR or THE DAY

It's better to have been fooled than never
TO have fltrted at all.-New York Press.
Marks-Why do you allow your wife 20
run up such big bills? Parks-Because
"a sooner have trouble with my Creditors
World.
But. count, you are old enough to be
my father" 'Ah, I wish I were-s4.cb
happiness-to hat such a beautiful lot Of
money as your father has."-New YoIK
Young Preacher-What is the best way
10 teach the Ten Commandments? Old
poor, teach them as cornma man ssrlo. II
Ihlo e class as requests: and If rfcn,
merely as commandments
"Bangr' went the rifles at the rnaneuv-
ers- "Oo-oo," screamed the pretty girl
q nice, decorous, surprised little scream.
sne stepped backward into the surprised
blushing II was frightened by he he rifles les
I beg your pardon" Not at all said
the young man Lets go over and was.h
the artillery. "-Cincinnati Times-star-
Mistress (engagfng servant)-I hope you
nave nice print dresses and expect va
always to wear caps. Mary-Yes, num-
shouldn't like TO be taken for one OF the
family mumi-London Opinion
''Golly, but rs tiredP' exclaimed a tan
and thin negro. meeting a short and stout
friend on Washington street. What Won
been dom to get tired2'' demanded the
drawing a deep breath. "over to Brofhes.
smiths dey are measuring de house fo1.
some new carpets. Dey haven't got no
yawdstick. and Use jest Exactly sly feet
a-iayin' down and a-gettin' up All over
DER nouse."-Youth's Companion.
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HOMELAND.

Where is thy homeland
F1owerland foam1and?
Falkland,
Or falkland,
Where vert thou born2
Was it some far-1and?
ClOudland or starland?
Was it an isle at the Gates of the MorE? ?
Where is thy homeland,
Flowerland or foamland?
Turfland,
Or Surfland
Where didst thou rise?
All my SOULS clodiand
Grows to g Godland
Under the spell of thy voice and thine
eyes.
Where is thy homeland,
Flowerlan6 farmland?
Budland,
Or Scudlond,
Where didst thou spring.
All my hearts duneland
Grows to a mOonland
Seeing thy beauty and hearing thee sing.
Roland Campbell Macfie, in Pail Mall
Gazette.
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RY TIE WAY
81 HARvmY PARsoNa

the usual defense of yaps who find
outdoor sport in the shooting of pub
TIC men, is that they are insane. May
hap many of them are. But we hon
estly believe that the sudden hanging
OF rev of them would have tend
ency to divert insanity into less de-
structive channels.
The good old system in vogue in the
| dark ages, of pulling a leg off the
malefactor and clubbing him to death
with 1t, was not such a bad system
when applied at the right time.
1t is to rejoice, however, that the
to by a statement from Bill White to
the effect that the nut was one OF
Dave Mulvane's hire1ings.'
The Mcpherson gent who took six
shots at himself and is still on the
job, was not considered when an army
OFFICER recently observed that the Unit
ed states was always prepared for war
because every citizen knew how to
shoot. The Mcpherson gent should
follow schutzenfests and reap col
lection of boob prizes.
Shooting of some kind seems to be
the order of the day. Comes the re-
port that Col. Jerry tombstone, of the
Dawson scouts, has been fired upon in
no serious objection to being shot at,
but he prefers mits at two feet to pis-
tolls at 20 PAGES.
Reports from wyoming indicate
that the visible supply of elk is in
Jackson's Hole. Reports from all
over the country indicate that the
Bull Moose are in another.
A three weeks boycott on eggs is
n in Int fof f0
see the advantage in waiting three
weeks and then eating the same eggs.
1t may be truthfully stated that
Kansas has three seasons; Winter.
Summer and part of October.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An easy way to make mistakes is to
trust to your memory.
X
Blondes have to plead guilty to the
charge of being 1ight-headed.
= II
The man who is willing to work will
generally find the opportunity.
= y
AS a matter of fact few of the Sec
rets told are worth the telling.
4
theoretically, humans should not De
judged by the clothes they wear, but
most of them are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

Nor are the farmers the only class
of people in this country whose bus1-
ness is booming this year. Importa-
ton of crude materials for the first
eight months of the year is the larg-
est by far in the history of the nation.
This means that the manufacturers of
the country are buster than ever be-
fore
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

Jack Johnson manages to keep in
the limelight in one way or another.
His latest efforts in this direction re-
suited in the arrest of his brother for
obtaining money and other valuable
things on his name. Jack is quite as
successful as a press agent as he is
as a prfze-fighter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

Josh Devore. the brilliant outhelder
with the New York Giants, is probably
vexed because that University of Min
nesota professor took occasion to COM
pare him with Theodore Roosevelt.
Successful ball players are in a class
by themselves nowadays, and are
reluctant to divide honors with any
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

There is nothing excessive in the in
crease by 100000 in the bonded in
debtedness of the Kansas cities of the
first and second class during the past
year. But as w. z. Davis, the state
auditor points out. each city should
take the necessary steps to provide a
sinking fund for the handling of its
debt. This is a simple business pro-
position that should appeal strongly
to all city authorities. The only Won
der is that any of them hesitate about
creating such a fund.
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DAFFYDUS
BY u NoALL.

Can a rope stretch when it's taut :
down in front!D
If an aeroplane lands CT the ground
-e does an electric light?
(Aunt janet Here's your snuff
When a physician is cut is his anti
toxin?
(Grandpa. Take your Whiskers out of
the custard.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

Although the Balkan states have
because of her failure to give proper
protection to the Christians in
Macedonia, it is likely that if they are
successful each of them will grab
chunk or two of the Ottoman Empire.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.


IFrom the New York Press.l
The queer thing to a woman about poll
tics IS how men don't have to buy new
mats to wear to their meetings.
A mans idea of a happy home is a
square meal there.
Tact IS believing a man out loud and
calling him a liar under your breath.
The fairest thing about man being
bunkoed is he was trying to do it to TIE
other fellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

A three weeks boycott against eggs
has been instituted at Cleveland be-
cause of the high prices that the re-
tailers are asking for them. And there
is another and stronger reason why
some eggs should be boycotted per-
rnanen+Iv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

Fearful storms have done much dam
age to many crops in European coun-
tries. This means that the. farmers
in this country are assured of good
prices for their bumper crops. Surely
there is no good reason for gloom
in the agricultural regions of this land.