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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
JAYHAWKER J0Ts

Moving the lawn is never quite so
easy as it looks in the magazine adver-
tisements, suggests Click Fockele.
AS the Scottsville Advance puts it,:
Bout every farmer that comes to town
has got an auto in place of houn.
You can't move your farm nearer
town, advises the Ottawa Republic, but
you can get there quicker over a good
road.
The small boy is feeling the lure of
the fishing place. remarks the Jewell
County Republican. And so is the big
one, SO is the big one.
At the Leavenworth meeting, says
the Western School Journal, it was :-e-
markable how many speakers spoke in
and the three RS" And the School
Journal significantly queries: Is the
pendulum swinginghack?
While we are kicking and growing
about heat, cold and drouth and wet,
Paris is leading in all Kansas record
breaking. There they have the hottest
and driest weather they have at this
season of the year for $50 years. I'm
fortunately for Kansas, that is where
they can head us off. We haven't been
keeping records in Kansas for $50
years.-Lawrence Gazette.
A Great Bend man, according to Bill
Townsley, of the Tribune, was anxious
to have twin babies. His wife felt the
same way about it until after they had
had about six months experience with
the single baby that came. After that
the man concluded that any individual
who hankered after twins Is a foolish
person. 1t is bad enough to carry one
collie stricken infant during the still
watches of the night, let alone two.
What is this tHoun dawg song see
so much about in the papers?'' asked
my missus last night, as she laid down
the State Journal, writes Tom Thomp-
son IN the Howard Courant. I sang a
spasm of it to her and she pronounced
it the biggest fool thing she ever heard,
and she couldn't for the life of her see
why it should become such a rage. Half
an hour later, when I was up in the
bathtub sp1ashing eff the Precipitation
of the first warm day of the season, 1
heard the missus singing, you gotta
quit a kickin' my dawg aroun'" She
very rarely breaks into song, and I was
considerably surprised that the fool
song had struck in on her so quickly.
And this morning, as she was stirring
up the pancake batter, heard her
singing, II don't care if he is a ole
houn'." Next thing she'll be deserving
Taft and going over to Champ Clark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

other day. I should telegraph-they
Will not expect me. I have never seen
Rex's mother"-they were in the dark
vestibule and the girl did not zee tho
older woman start at the name. 'Peo-
pie tell me am sure to love her. i
can't bear to have her think i'll of
me-
'She will-understand," breathed the
old lady. "She will think no ill-but
are You sure, sure about the other
mann"
eff I-could have one week-one day
with him, would die happyl" She
was taking her seat again and her eyes
snone. Il would follow him anywhere
In the world. give up anything for him
my dear. listen We viii be in Salt
Lake early in the morning. We can
stop off, go-to a hotel and you can
decide what to do. 1 will help you.
lou must have your berth made up
now, and go to sleep. 1t will come
out right for everybody" But sud-
qenly the old lady's face seemed tic
nave aged. "Helen-will you kiss me?"
The girl did so.
afterwards she remem bered that she
nao not told her name. And in her
perth she wondered dreamiIy whether
rex wharton would forgive her. Then
dreams Of Sherman King.
AT the dirty, prosaic station at Salt
i SaAe' IN the brightness of the May morn
oId q Huick; strange scene occurred. The
~ iduy ana Helen Travers had lust en-
Lered, when the girl gave a crv. A tail
pIond young fellow, very pale snatched
ner 10 him and kissed her without a word
ast I1rG Inc o!oer woman was looking her
SS1stonIShment, another man, also Young
Out sraVer, with a. dark fine face STONED
snort at the door and watched the group.
fine old Iady's face, the chin more so1,sre
tne forehead higher. He came over and
too6 her hand:
Rex" she breathed. "Oh. Reg NV
poor boy! 1t couldn't be helped-she isn't
70 piame' For still, though standing
apart from him, Helen saw only Sherman
~ nin H. ana he her, and he stood talking
10 her In low eager tone.
Rex Wharton almost crushed his
mothers 1ho5tsEt hand in his. Mother, I
on-home, and then go to- Denver for
her: What does it-mean?"
Inen, as If voice called her, Helen
,,ll ana saw him. She walked straight
up 10 MIN, truth and courage in her
Rex" she said. you must forgive me.
You love some one else? Don't he
to me!'
other man stepped to her side with
protective movement Wharton gave a
t nltter little laugh, and the girl breathed
out his hand and gave Kings a hearty
grasp-he was man.
suppose" he said slowly, "that I
don't deserve-happiness At any rate,
you seem to be the better man. Helen. i
am still in a manner responsible for you.
what do you wish to do? Shall my
mother
The girls eyes filled with sudden tears
oh" she said, eff my mother had livedl
VIII you-stay few hours until we"
can be married? L will make ar
rangements immediately" King finished.
He turned away and Rex went with him
few steps, then returned.
Take "a taxi to the st. James," he said,
land wait for u.s.
"Oh!" said the girl, 'T feel like a wicked
wicked"
The old lady gave a rueful little smile
Sherman King avenges my treatment of
his-father," she said quietly. "It comes
back tony son.. '-(Copyrighted, 1912, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
HUAOR OF THE Day

Does your wife object when you stay
out late at night?' "She couldn't file
more objections, my dear sir, If she were
a corporation Iawyer."-Detroit Free
Press.
''Great Scott, man, didn't expect to run
across you in this villageI What is
fellow Of your ability doing among all
these boobs?" THE Observation-Disclosures
American
Husband-I won't say marriage is fall
ure but some are more fortunate in what
they get than others. Wffe-You are quite
right dear; for instance, you got me, but
I-got only you.-Tit-Bits.
"Do you think Grubber will leave any
footprints on the sands Of timer" mo.
Grubber will merely leave a few pencil
marks on the margins of his favoTite
Observation-Disclosures Age-Herald.
Did you hear the new opera in New
York;" Yes" 1T was sung in English,
wasn't itT' 81 was told so.''-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
100000 B. C.-Evw discovers a fig leaf
tiful Isle of Somewhere. 1909 A. D.-Dr.
Cook discovers the copyright law. 1910
A D.-Marc Henry discovers a second
Tflden- 1912 A. D--Colonel Roosevelt dis
covers the Ananias club.-Columbia State.
How is good way to break a man of
poker playing p ITO break a man of
poker playing yoil must break him at
poker playing. Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
QUAKER MEDTTATToNs.
EFrom the Philadelphia Rec,

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Hard Luck is bitter bill. Swallow it,;
don't chew it.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
even where money is concerned.
The things we remember the longest
frequently happen in the shortest time.
The average barber is more expert at
cutting your hair than at hiding your cut.
Blobbs-"Do you believe that all men are
born eQual?'' Slobbs-''No; only twins"
The man who follows the crowd may
eventually get there, but he is apt to find
it all over.
The one newspaperman from whom we
are never anxious to get send-on is
the obituary editor.
Hoax-"Are you in favor of votes for
women?" Joax-'sNo; I'm in favor Of
votes for men,
1T realize that am a sluggard,'' re-
marked the indolent young man, but
alas! I have no aunt to go to- s'Why
don't you try father-in-law?'' suggested
the fertile friend.
''And how is your husband, Aunt Man
dy?" asked Mrs. Goodheart. Poly,
Ma'am, poly replied Aunt Mandy. HE
was gittin' along all right. but now de
doctah done say he got de convalescence-' .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
A REFORM WORTH WHILE.

Kansas appears to be taking the lead
| again in a matter of momentous i'm
| portance. Conferences began today at
the state university among judges, law
yers, heads of penal institutions and
! teachers of law at the university,
which will result in the formation of
an organization to be known as the
Kansas Institute of Criminal Law
| and Criminology. It proposes to de-
vote its energies to improving the
criminal procedure in this state. The
idea is to make it the most effective.
the most expeditions and the most
economical of any in the country.
Surely there is wide field for labor
in such an endeavor. The chances are
that Kansas is no worse off in this re-
spect than are many or all of the 9TH
er states. These conditions here are
probably better tran they are in some
states, but they are far from what they
should be. And there is reason for
congratulations all around that the
matter has finally been taken up in a
concrete fashion by men who are in
terested in the development of Kansas
along all proper lines, and who are
also experts in the particular subject
at issue.
1t has been pointed out by President
Taft repeatedly that one of the crying
evils throughout the. United States is
the delay and the excessive costs incl
dent to the administration of criminal,
and civil law. The late Ed Madison
was the father of a bill in congress
authorizing the president to appoint
commission to investigate these mat
tiers and suggest remedies. But the
measure does not seem to have been
pushed by any one since his untimely
death. OF course, such an investiga-
ton would affect only the federal
courts. but it was hoped that it would
result in the adoption of a plan for
these courts that could be used as a
model to remedy similar abuses in
state courts. Working out any such
plan for the federal courts now seems
to be in the dim distant future.
For Kansans to start an investiga-
ton of their own on this score is a
further evidence Of the pioneer senti-
ment that is paramount in this state
to bring about reforms that are worth
while. Professor w. E. Higgins of the
school of law at the state university,
who has been one of the leaders in
this important movement, is authority
for the statement that thousands of
through the employment of cumber-
some methods of administering the
criminal law. If there was ever a time
when it was incumbent to stop any and
all possible leaks in the administra-
ton of any branch of government, now
is that time. Furthermore, there is
much miscarriage of justice because
of the costs that are involved. And it
is probably we'll within the truth to
suggest that more serviceable reforms
for all concerned in the matter Of ap-
plying the civil and the criminal law
of any state can be brought about by
revising in many necessary details the
cumbersome methods of procedure
than there can be through the recall
of judges whenever a crowd may deem
it expedient or through the recall OF
judicial decisions in the same manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.J

CFrom the Chicago News.1
KIeptomaniacs will take almost anything
but a hint.
A woman doesn't always better it when
she changes her mind
A blunt man is one who wastes no time
in coming to the point
Even If a man is ''big gun" the wolf
may camp on his doorstep
If you are unable to see any good in
the world, consult an oculist.
A girl always likes to kiss a distant
male relative merely to keep in practice
By following his own advice a man may
succeed in remaining poor to the end.
If a man ever thinks seriously of mar
rage it is after taking a hand in the
game.
1t is seldom necessary for a man who is
as regular as clock work to live on tick.
At the age of 16 a girls idea of a~hero
is a youth who couldn't earn SO a month
as a cigerette drummer
It is possible for one woman to pass an
other on the street without seeing her
but she can't pass miIlner,s windoz,
without looking in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
Wo1nen's Future Status.

IL
In the normal social life the position of
women is easily defined. They are sub
ordlnated but important. The citizenship
rests with the man, and the woman's re
through man. But within that limita-
ton her functions as mother, wife and
homemaker are cardinal It is one of the
entirely unforeseen consequences that
social life and its autonomous home that
great numbers of women while still SUBJ
ordinate, have become profoundly l1nim-
portant. They have ceased to a very large
ped most or their home-naking arts, they
no longer nurse nor educate such children
as they have, and they have taken on no
new functions that compensate for these
terror. That subjugation which is a vital
cond1t1on of the normal social life does
not seem to be necessary to the great
state. 1t may or it may not be necessary
s,a AND mere we enter upon the most diff
spirit of the great state is against any
avo1dable subjugation;> but the whole
spirit of that science which will animate
the great state forbids US to ignore wonl-
ans function and temperamental differ
ences. A new status has still to be in
vented for women, q feminine citizenship
differing In certain respects from the nor
NAL masculine citizenship. Its conditions
remain to be worked out. We have, i'll
deed, to work out an entire new system
OF relations between men and women that
VIII be free from serv1tude. aggression.
provocauon or parasitfsm. The public en-
doWment of motherhood as such many per-
haps be the first broad suggestion of the
quality of this new status. A new type of
family, a mutual alliance in the place o.
sub1ugation, Is perhaps the most startling
OF all the conceptions which confront US
directly we turn ourselves definitely to-
ward the great state.-H. G. Wells In
Harper's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
TRUE LOVE.


Her husbands short and bald and fat
And rather dull, to speak the truth,
His Conversations very flat,
Heehasn't looks, or charm, or youth,
Yet when She reads book about
Some brilliant hero, tall and slim,
She breathes, Hes grand Without q
doubt.
He's just like Jini''
His wife is dumpy, very plain,
With mousy hair and shiny nose,
Yet when He reads of Fair Elaine
AS beauteous as any Rose
He mods serenely at his wife,
As happy husbands often do,
And thinks, 'Elaine-upon my life
Is just like Sue!'
And though we cannot see as they
For all we know they may be right
For If love takes the sight away,
He gives a sort of second sight,
So that-to meet the perfect test
To prove their merit, as it were,
Folks should resemble what is best,
Be Just like Him-or Herr
-Berton Braley, in the Woman's World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

speech in support of Colonel RooseveIt's
candidacy. That is, he was arraigning
the Taft administration most severely.
Finally he demanded: Can you tell me
one good thing Taft ever did?" A man
in the audience shouted back: HE
fired you" And the remainder of Mr..
Pfnchot's speech might as well have
never been delivered. His audience had
not recovered from its paroxysms Of
joy and merry laughter by the time he
had concluded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

he chose to get what little he could
then rather than to take temporary
defeat and go on fighting at the sue
ceeding session of congress for legis-
lation that would be fundamentally
sound"
And this is about as clean cut
and impressive reason as could be
advanced why Mr.. Roosevelt should
not again be president. He is all on
the surface. He does not get down to
the essentials of the complex questions
incident to important governmental
administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most of the classical music seems
noted for it's lack of tunes.
n ~
Not a few men win agree to any
proposition just to avoid an argument.
X y
To get man into a pubic oIIice
is seldom as difficult as to get him
out of it.
There is this advantage to cool
spring. 1t makes big saving IN the
y y ~
Many a young man is booked to de-
liver soon the first and last Grafton
of his life-on his graduation from
school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

VINO got into an aviation field over
the fence fnsteAd of by the front gate,
e1nits the loudest boiler when the bird
man fails to gos UP against a choppy
hurricane.
A jury has held that the Oklahoma
Judge who killed his son in self de-
Tense was not guilty of anything, but
the same jury didn't have the nerve
to add that it was pleasant task be-
cause it was well done.
Close upon the heels of the report
of the man who sawed off the limb he
was using as a seat, comes the report
OF the woman who was Smothered in
a self-cocking folding bed. If the
news continues to follow lines laid
any time expect a report of the will
liam goat who actually ate a tomato
can.
to go without clothes. In other
words, he wants to follow the first
laws of nature, as recognized in BoS-
ton-and save the price of clothes.
A lot of well-paid lecturers take as
their golden texts, the struggles of the
woiking goil, but neglect to mention
the greatest struggle the working girl
ever has-towit: Keeping her hair on
straight.
When an animal seeks human pro-
lection in time of peril. it may safely
be classified as a domestic animal.
This and That are undoubtedly do
mestic animals. When dog appears
at the alley gate, the neuter pronouns
beat it for the kitchen door, instead Of
up tree.
Dodd CASTOR thinks Rev. Richeson
should be fed on country sausage, and
it follows, of course, that Dodd is not
satisfied with the evidence. We hold
that the evidence is sufficient, and
that the punishment should be made
to fit the crime by feeding the Rev.
on patent breakfast food.
Down in seward county father and
son are pitted against each other in
the scrap for a job as member of the
legislature. The contest not only
makes good advertising material, but
has the advantage of keeping the office
in the family.
One swallow doesn't make sum-
mer, but one dinky little grasshopper
can make a spring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
DAFFYDHS
By U. NoALL.

If the water. at Hot Springs is good
is that at Carlsbad2
(Send for Doc Osler. Here's an
octogenarian wandering around.)
If you can't get his goat can YOU
Gettysburg?
(All men are not homeless but some
are home less than others.)
istence?
(John- dear. sThe lawn needs now
ing.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.

rFrom the New York PressJ
Tomorrow is better than today because
it has possibilities.
Stick to the straight and narrow path
and avoid the rush.
A club can beat more ideas into some
heads than reason can.
A boy needs to be whaled pretty often
SO as not to need it oftener.
Married life becomes fairly comfortable
for woman when she gets to be a
widow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

Through its inheritance tax law Kan
sas will get a considerable sum of
money from the estates of many of the
people who went down with the Titanic
and who owned big blocks of stock in
several of the railroads organized in
this state. But Kansas would have
been better pleased had the Titanic
come safely to port
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

San Diego's people seem to have the
right sort of gumption. They invited
Emma Goldman to leave town and saw
to it that she accepted the invitation
with alacrity. They extended the same
kind of an invitation to DR.. Ben Reit-
man, her pal, but provided him with a
suit of tar and feathers, before sending
him on his way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

1t is claimed by those who have made
a study of the question that Kansas
could save 100000 annually by the
state publishing the school books. AS
there is not a school book publishing
house in the state why not also adopt
this plan for the purpose of establish
ing a new industry here?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

That King Frederick VIII of Den
mark died alone, unaccompanied and
unattended on the streets of city, and
was taken to a public morgue and
placed among the unidentified dead, is
an unparalleled circumstance in the
history of European royalty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

Some testimony presented In the gov
eminent dissolution suit against the
American Sugar Refining company, de-
scribes the road that sugar travels
from the producer to the consumer.
And while the information of the cost
OF such progress was not specific, the
consumer knows Tor a fact that the
route is expensive. Also. that he pays
all the travelling expenses, and then
some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

A bean diet seems to be responsible
for the development of unusual ideas.
A physician at the Massachusetts, CAPT.
tai says an ideal dress for Bostonians
would be a happy smile and an UNI
brella to keep off the scorching rays of
Old Sol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

With the variety of weather that is
prevailing all over the Western League
circuit, it would be unreasonable to ex-
pect any of the teams to show anything
like their real form. And this cold
weather is particularly hard on the
pitchers. 1t takes warm sun and lots
of it to loosen the kinks in baseball
players anatomy, SO that he can per-
form at his best
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

Isn't it pretty near time for Clarence
s. Darrow to follow the advice he gave
to the Mcnamara brothers and plead
guilty to the charges against him?
However, there are few men who are
willing to follow the advice they give
to others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

On the theory that the early bird
catches the worm, Colonel Roosevelt
would seem to stand some chance of
getting a few delegates in Ohio. He IS
making speeches as early in the morn
ing as $40 o'clock Incidentally the
OEioans must be deeply interested in
the present contest being waged in
their midst to turn out at that hour to
hear a political speech.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

There is small likelihood that they
will soon capture those bandits VINO
robbed an express car in Mississippi
the other night of $4,000 in cash.
Bloodhounds were Immediately placed
nm their trail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Another enviable record has been es-
tablished in the state of Michigan. Six
men out of thirteen who were buried in
a mine were rescued alive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

After the present presidential cam
paign is over, most folk would probably
feel much happier if they knew that
there was no prospect of having an
other one for six or eight years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

If summer weather does not come
along soon, the proper time for it will
have passed. Possibly it will arrive
here for the next winter season. And
how like Kansas that would. be?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17

T. R. says he already has a plurality
of the delegates elected to the Chicago
convention. This is a decision of the
Colonel's that will undoubtedly be re-
called by others, and not himself.