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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
QUAKER MEDrTATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Many mans honesty is due to the fact
that his price is too high.
You can't expect people to believe in
luck who have never had any.
Would you say that man denies him
self when he travels under an alias?
It's hard to stand up for your rights
without stepping on somebody s. toes.
Clothes don't make woman. especially
Ii he woman makes her own clothes.
A modest man is simply one who re-
Trains from expressing his opinion about
himself.
The things that come to those who walt
are seldom the things they are waiting
for.
1t is extremely doubtful If two heads
are better than one when it comes o
keeping a secret.
Some men have almost as many faults
as an office boy has grandmothers during
the baseball season.
The bank clerk doesn't have to be
musical, but he couldn't hold his job If ne
didn't know one note from another.
The Lord will provide quoted the
Wise Guy. Yes, but don't let that II
fluence you to turn down a free lunch,
added the Simple Mug.
Wigg-''To what do you attribute the
lack of success on the part of the ProhI
bitionists?" Wagg-"Simply to the fast
that you can buy two beers for the price
of one lemonade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
JAYKAWKER .JOE.S

A man must be an optimist, think:
the Sterling Bulletin, who can haV'
a light heart with a dark brown taste
Camp life would go mighty hard with
most people if it was compulsory
thinks the Marysville Advocate-Demo-
| crat.
Some baseball players receive larger
| salaries than congressman, remarks the
| Sterling Bulletin, and it adds: But who
| ever paid good money to see a con-
pressman perform.
One of the soldier boys who returned
from the recent maneuvers spoke ad-
visedly of it, says the Harveyville
Monitor, as the Crap Shooters conven-
| ton in annual session.
| Young man, advises the Peabody
Herald, when your photo no longer
stands on the piano with the family
likenesses, it is time for you to take
the hint and cease calling.
We notice, says the Marysville Ad-
vocate-D Demo crat, that the drone gets
| All of which was brought to mind by
a visit from "Muskogee Red
Advice from the Howard Courant:
Go to the slot machine, thou spend
thrift; study its ways and get rich.
In other words, keep all you take in,
and cough up as seldom as possible.
Here is positive proof that the quail
ity of Kansas City whisky shipped in
here is better than in previ-
Gus seasons, says the Americas
Greeting. No big snakes have been dis
covered nor big fish caught that got
awav.
Did you ever consider, asks the Mar
quette Tribune, that you pay one to
two cents a pound for watermelon and
eat less than one-fourth of it by
weight? That makes the part cOnsum-
ed cost from four to eight cents
&c
value as a food is practically nothing
Yet the poor people will buy melons
and complain about the high cost of
living.
Here is one of the stories, says the
Americas Greeting, from the old mans
row in front of the barber shop: One
man said back in Pennsylvania they
so steep that when they planted the
potatoes one man had to hold them
in furrow while another man COW
cred them up. When they dug them in
in the fall they were simply allowed TIC
roll to the bottom of the hill before
any attempt was made to pick them
UP.
Said the citizen: why don't you
fire a shot at Jones? He certainly
needs it, "All right said the news
paper man. And he wrote and read to
the citizen an article that was
scorcher on Jones. How'll that do?'
''F'ineI just what that ornery cuss has
needed for a long time What are
your initials % why, you're not going
to put my name to that?'' Why not?
you're the man who inspired it, Yes,
but Jones and 1 are neighbors and
have busin ess relations. He'd never
speak to me again. Good Lord, mani
You can't do that, you know" And
then the editor told the citizen in a
few chosen words some of the things
he thought of a man who would try
to induce newspaper to make and be
responsible for an attack which its
originator was afraid to father, and
the citizens ears are burning yet
Sawyer News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

tight but nowadays I doubt if any
body can afford to build it,"
please leave gap in yours-or
put in a gate on our side," Hayden
said, holding out his hand at parting.
Margaret flushed again, and gave
him an appealing look. THAT is the
sort of thing to say to a pretty wom-
an" she said. But mel wish you
hadn't"
I'm coming to see you. no matter
how the fence is,'' Hayden declared
boldly-at which she walked away
very fast, with her head so high she
did not see the ground. Thus she
stubbed her toe-fell, was picked up
before she could scramble to her feet,
and in the laugh over her predfca-
ment discovered that John Hayden
the man was really pretty much a
boy-and a good sort at that.
Margaret spent thought and money
recklessly on the fence it was law
ful, and more, even, Unc' Pete admit
ted. Hayden watched the building or
1t jealousy. But it was not until
corn gathering time, after the poor,
helpless old grandfather had been
likewise gathered to his fathers, that
ne dared to take Margaret in his arms
and beg her to let him care for her all
ner ife.-(Copyrighted 1912, by Nc
cures Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
HUNOR or THE Day

1.-THE doctor is such q polite man. He
ways sees his patients out right to the
door" Yes. he once had a magnificent
fur coat stolen p'-London opinion.
Silicus-A woman never knows what she
wants. Cynicus-Oh. yes, she does; but
not till she realizes she can't get it
Philadelphia Record.
How do you recognize wealth that is
not predatory?'' by its willingness to
contribute to me campaign fund. Wash
ington Star.
Soakley (reminiscently)-I remember
that when I was a boy my great desire
was to possess a bugle. His wife-Yes.
and now from taking too many horns you
have bugIe that you don't want--Boston
Transcript.
Those wicked neighbors Of ours were
in hard luck" said Japhet. 1T serves
them right" replied Ham. They stood
around waiting for ship subsidy instead
of going ahead and doing business a. We
did. washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
says UNCLE CAV

I have known folks who were toe
stingy to breathe. That sounds liz
a joke. but it isn't. I wish it were
The saddest spectacle of earth is the
person who, surrounded by plenty, is
too mean to live deeply.
For a horrible example, there's the
Blank family. Originally, the Blanks
were poor as Jobs turkey. They be-
gan life with plenty of pluck and a
disposition to save-littIe else. They
set a pace that their less thrifty
follow-up to a certain point. But
when their bank account and assess
ment lists assumed proportions rather
greater than those of the ordinary
family, we discovered that their
economy had become ingrown stingi-
ness.
The Blank family fed their bank
account by starving themselves. No
full meal. No member of the family
ever INDUCED in frivolous amuse-
ment. None ever laughed aloud.
Go into the magnificent Blank
home any hot summers day and
you'll not find window wide open.
Look at one of the shrivele1 Blanks
and you'll see that pinched look that
betokens poverty. Look again and
you'll find that he or she is almost well
dressed, but not quite. Watch a Blank
for a little while and you'll discover
that he never takes a full breath.
The Blanks are too stingy to live.
That habit of denying themselves a
sufficient quantity of any given thing
has become monomania. They still
forsake the table while hungry. Able
to afford purple and fine linen, they
give way to their old practices and
stop a little short of that quality of
clothing that a well paid clerk is en-
titled to. Being used to restraining
themselves, they actually forbear to-
open wide the windows to let into
their musty but pretentious abode
enough of Gods free fresh air. Edu-
Gated to repression, they abhor
laughter as an extravaganza, and the
eternal check is put even upon the
functions of their lungs.
The Blanks are the logical develop
ment of the dollar slave. Long self
denial of the things that go to make
life full and joyous, but which cost
moderate amount of money, has got
them into a deadly habit of denying
themselves that which is without
and without price. It's no joke
that the Blanks are too stingy to
breathe. And the sorry part of it is
there are a good many Blanks incum-
bering this glad earth--(Copyright, !
1912, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Scarcely any man is as clever as he
thinks he is.
X
Few people will take jokes as readily
as they'll give them.
a.
Neither do you have to labor hard to
convince a mother that her baby is
pretty and smart.
Hunting for happiness is like the old
fashioned search for a needle in hay
stack.
No young man is at all enthusiastic
over the photographs of his babyhood
that show him minus clothes. Neither
is any young woman for that matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
ON THE FRASER RIVER


There are salmon flowers pinkfng
The bushes by my door,
The high snow fields are shrinking
The April sun before
mere a soft south wind a-blowing
Through the birches by the stream.
There are tinted clouds ALLOWING
On hmpid sea of dream.
mere are willows green and timber
Where the white-haired freshets flow
In the green gloom of the timber
There are lockwood stars a-glow
There are purple mountains looming.
Carved silver crowns they rear
For all the world is blooming
In the girlhood of the year.
But perfect as the earth is,
A-gleam with sun and dew,
Yet small 1 find its worth is
Because it lacks for you;
There's not an hour that slips, love-
/ look to see you there,
With laughter on your lips, love,
And flowers in your hair.
-Crosbie Garstin, in the Pail Mall Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

A silent man never has to eat his words.
Almost any little old restaurant can
pose chop house
If you would keep your friends, let them
keep their money.
The size of a dollar depends on whether
1t is coming or going.
A good memory is one that enables us
to forget unpleasant things.
The average man is always butting in
and adding to his collection of enemies.
Typewriters tell no tales-but the same
cannot always be said of steno graphers.
If you want people to sit UP and take
notice simply make noise like a hun
dred dollar BILL
After a man has been married six
months he never takes a friend home 20
dine without first letting his wife know.
An expert cabinetmaker can take nes
piece of furniture and make it look as If
it was 200 years old-and SO can the av-
erage small boy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If a man can plaster a house in two
days how much can a muStard-plaste
(Take it off, MAJ It's beginning to
burn like fre.)
And some said that the paper-hanger,
at work in a boarding house, hung a
border but it was only rumor
CThe professor will now sing that
hash-house classic: There's a fly in
the soup, Bridget dear.')
If Roosevelt is a Bull Moose is Per-
kins the doe?
(Also put it down that any woman
with a continuous smile usually has
new store teeth.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

who are not possessed of autos, should
give this movement their hearty sup
port. Good roads mean much more
for the farmers than they do for the
automobiles of the pleasure-jaunt-
ing variety. Good roads is a business
proposition for the farmers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
Word Curiosities-

1t is impossible to kick" a man in
French. You must give him a blow with
the foot" The Portuguese do not wink
at one They "close and open the eyes.
In the languages of many semicivilized
tribes there is no word with which to con-
vey the idea of stealing" perhaps be-
cause the idea. of property is so vague 1T
is related of one of the early missionaries
that, in attempting to translate the Bible
into Algonquin, he could find no word to
express ''love," and was compelled to in
vent If FIT Rifa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press-1
No girl ever had enough beaux to De
willing to spare one to a girl with none.
A woman is simply wild for closet room
so to have to get a, lot of things to put
there.
A man will keep on whistling around
already
Nowadays there's nothing that makes a
woman suspicious of a stranger as fer
him to be polite.
A rich relative dead can make enemies
by not leaving 1t to them just the way he
did alive by not lending it to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

SuhSc1 hers OF tho state Journal
away from hOrl>c during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents sTeeI or thirty cents a
month Thy vail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the state journal Wau be
Tn Won Ike a 1tsiIy 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, 1912-09-16

Think of it, Wholesale election
frauds are charged against Progress
sive election officers who presided at
the recent primaries in California
Before long, most people will be con-
WINGED that the Progressives are real
~ human, regardless of their preten-
sions that they are something better
than that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

unteers who went into the mines were
brought up on the cage lifeless.
Since the Bureau of Mines took up
this greatr work but one voluntee
rescuer in the last eight or ten dis
aSters has lost his life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

Usually there is only a demand for
extra harvest hands in Kansas when
the wheat crop is ready for the reap
ers. But SO voluminous are all the
other crops in Kansas this year, that
there is even now demand for extra
farm hands which is away beyond the
supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

Topekans will be able to enter on
their fall and winter season with
composure. Just as everybody had
given up all hope of a circus COM
ing to town, and was much peeved
accordingly, one has appeared on the
horizon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

And the world seemed to move on
in the accustomed tenor of its way
last Friday despite the fact that that
day was also the thirteenth of the
month. Surely the superstitious folk
have much difficulty in making both
ends meet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
EanizAtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puT-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

Snow in Colorado at this time is
probably just a trifle more than was
bargained for by the tail-enders
among the summer tourists who wan
dered in that direction to get away
from the warm weather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

If the Bull Moose electors in Cali
fornia are successful at the polls in
November the electoral college will be
turned into an institution of the CO.
ed variety. A woman has been named
as one of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

The Japs are remarkable people,
but they evidently have much yet to
learn. General Nogi. the hero of Port
Arthur and Mukden. and his wife
committed suicide to express their
grief over the death of their late en-
nPrnr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

William Allen White thinks the
achievements of Governor Stubs in
public life are all the more remark
able because when he entered it ten
years ago by way of the Kansas leg
islature he was ignorant of politics
and political methods. But Mr.. White
overlooks the fact that Mr.. Stubs
was an expert mule-driver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

And isn't it trifle peculiar that
during the seven long years he was in
the presidential office, Mr.. Roosevelt
never thought of any of the many
plans he now proposes to bring full
Justice to the people in all things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

AS is usually the case with experts,
the prominent ones who have investi-
gated the malady that is decimating
the Kansas horses have failed to agree
as to what it is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

For an old, experienced jurist,
Mayor Gaynor seems to have shown
astonishingly little knowledge of
what is expected of witnesses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

At last it is explained why the small
boy and the hobo are so healthy. A
Boston physician says that soap is a
carrier of diseases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

In California the Roosevelt-John-
son electors have been named by the
Progressive state campaign commit
tee. This is another instance how
the Bull Moosers let the people rule
in practice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

At the annual meeting of the State
Automobile association, the Kansas
autoists perfected plans for cam
paign for better roads. And the farm
ers Of the state. including the many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

Governor Wilson says that 1 is
his lucky number. But election day
comes on November 5.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

Reno, Nevada, was shocked the
other day. But it took an earthquake
10 do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

40 CHANCE noe 30

| NO CHANCE FOR ROOSEVELT.
hartman Hilles, of the Republican
natiohai committee. says that Roose-
81 rSie VIII not carry a state of the
Union and that he is in the fight sim
ply to defeat Taft. The Times does not
accept the theory that Mr.. Roosevelt is
IN this fight just to defeat Taft. Had
mat been his purpose he would have
e 80 10 the nomination Of Hadley or
VI Cummins by the Republican national
convention. Mr.. Roosevelt is NOT the
~ ~ OF man to regard defeat as among
the possibilities. He imagined that he
e,d oulld up great national party
anu that Democrats as we'll as Re
publicans would flock 70 bis standard
ana sweep him into power again. Meth
er is IL so certain that Mr. Roosevelt
VII carry ne states. That the Bull
-ao ,.,,.s party as party, will fail OF
tha T rs any states is certain since
1le vermont election That election
showed that Roosevelt is making M
Inroads upon the Democrats marty All
TIE roosevelt party can hopa- 70 ac-
SouipliSn IN the strongly Republican
80 go. . 70 decrease the Republican
ickets IN the field the most A. can ac-
cohipHsh IS TO throw the vote Of the
state to Wilson. But there are come
SECS IKE Kansas and Nebraska in
e I-Aatn tIe buIl Moose candidates for
elector are masquerading in the Repub-
ncan UNIFORM and those states NAV 2.
Tor Roosevelt. There are bu+ hair a
uozen states however. in which Roose-
VeIt can have any chance Of receiving
any electoral votes while there arc
many more in which he stands a chance
or SO reducing the Republican vote as
TO give the Democrats a plurality NC
that the only effect of the Bull Moose
campaign will be to increase the
chances of Democratic success, wheth-
er that is what Mr.. Roosevelt is in IL
Tor or not.-Leavenworth Times.
THE SCHOOL A FACTORY.
schools are citizen making factories.
II they turn out grouchy. narrow, self
cehtered men and women, it is the
Iault OF the individuals, not the instf-
tuition. Next week ten thousand bows
and girls will go to work In these fac
tories. What these boys and girls
make after the school turns out its
finished product, is what makes or
unmakes the world. From this ten
thousand is to come a force to supply
an upltft. When life becomes old and
the world cries for courage and things
Whlch are just and true, it must turn
70 the products of these factories. So.
little boy and little girl, before YOU
P1Iuhge INTO the factory remember that
me ne world viii have a place for you
WIEN you hnish your work. 1t is al
Ways asking for the upright, honest
1 wan ana the home loving, true wife.
I; Inc school will train you for success
II you do your part.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16
FROM OTHER PENS
BEEF, BEEF!


Inc american people, like their an
cestors of old England, must have
peer. But the shrinkage in the beef
crop Is tod by he census in these fig
ures; Neat cattle of all grades de-
creased from 100000 in 1900 10
o1,OOO,O 5000 in 1910. The only class
IN which there was an increase was in
odlry cows: In all other grades there
was q decline. Time was when there
was a vast region known as the west
ern plains apparently set apart for
pastur1ng the cattle herds of the coun-
try Immediately after the close Of
the Civil war, Colorado, Montana ard
Idaho began TO loom up as gold pro-
duclng countries, those plains were
covered with herds of wild buffaloes,
estimated at the time to number I5,-
100000 animals. AS the country be-
gan to be settled up and the transcon-
tlnental railroads were built and opCr-
ated the buffaloes were rapidly exter-
minated and beef cattle took their
places, grazing upon the open plains.
But that country is being settled up
and tnclOsed so that there are no long
er vast open free pastures for millions
of cattle, wild or tame. Every ranch
man must keep his cattle on his own
lands, and when they eat up the grass
they must be fed A great change has
occurred, and in the future we must
look for our beef supply not to ranch
men of the west, but to the farmers
of the whole country must the people
look for their beef supply in the flu
ture. There is land enough to raise
the cattle and every year enough feed
goes to waste. IL properly utilized,
would support them. Farm bred beef
means a readjustment of conditions,
diversification and rotation of CROPS
and thoroughbred (not scrub) live
stock on the farms; with expert knowl-
edge of handling them. We must ac.
immediate ourselves to the new con-
ditions and make the most of them -
New Orleans Picayune.
VACATIONS IN WINTER.
Not much success is .-..ely to attend the
attempt of the Imperial Bank OF
Germany to persuade its employees, or
part of them, to take their vacations IN
winter instead of summer. The offer or
some extra days-as many as there are
weeks in the summer vacation-win %
tempting, of course. but more than coun-
the temptation will be
sense that there are not nearly
as many pleasant. healthfui, and mex
pensive things to do out of doors In win
ter as in summer. And freedom from
work is most desired at the season when
work is the most irksome and exhaustinS,
which is during hot weather. and while
bank clerk may not greatly enjoy mis- ID
bors when icy winds do blow, at least ne
does not then have to refuse any pressing
from forest and stream IL
probably could be proved that the sum
ner vacation custom is advantageous TO
employers as well as to the employed.
since it enables the latter to give better
service to the former than would a vaca-
ion passed as II most likely would be IN
winter. Moreover all sorts of business,
including that of banking, long since al
summer and an increase of it in winter
New York Times.