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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Suspicion is the fly in the matrimonial
ointment.
If you would retain your friends. don't
give them away.
And many a man has a kick coming
that never reaches him.
The Wall street bulls have tossed
many a man over the wall
Even the man who doesn't lie never tells
all the truth he knows
The world hasn't much use for the man
who takes pride in his humility.
Occasionally a woman drives a man to
drink, but usually he beats her to It.
The average man is always butting in
and adding to his collection of enemies.
It is a great deal better to be disappoint-
ed in love than to be disappointed in mar
riage.
Many q girl marries a man, not because
he is good enough for her but because he
is too good for her rival.
When the fool killer wants to take a
day off he places high power automobile
in charge of a low power intellect.
About the time a man is old enough TO
have acquired fairly good sense his neigh
bors begin calling him old fogy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06

| In 1909 the public health and ma
rine hospital service instituted an in
vestigation as to the frequency of
rabies in the United States during the
year 1908. All possible sources of in
| formation were utilized and COMPLETE
verification of the cases was attempted
in every instance. comparison with
the figures obtained in 1911 would in
dictate that the infection is on the in
crease. In 1911, cases were reported
from 1881 localities as against 534 in
1908, while there were only ninety
eight deaths in 1911, Notwithstanding
the largely increased number of loCali-
ties from which the disease was re-
ported, as compared with III deaths
in 1908. This is accounted for prob
ably by the large increase in the num-
Der of institutions IN which the anti
rabic treatment could be obtained and
by the fact that the victims availed
themselves more largely of this treat
ment. In 1908 there were twenty
thre9 institutions in the country where
this treatment was administered; in
1911 there were at least forty-two. In
addition there are a number of labora-
tories which supply material for in
EQUATIONS to practicing physicians.
The number of persons known to have
1900. while in 1911 it was 1925. The
figures for 1911 show that the period
of incubation in nineteen out of sixty
five cases was between twenty-one and
thirty days this being the greatest
numter for any given incubation
period. Three cases occurred over
twelve months after the injury. The
average incubation period of all cases,
excluding those over one year, was
1925 days. The decrease in the num-
Der of deaths in 1911 as compared
with 1908 amounted TO nearly 2 per
cent. Striking facts brought out in
this report are the wider distribution
of the infection. its spread on the Pa
cific coast, which section in 1908 SEEM
ed to be entirely free from the dis
ease, and the decreased death rate
owing to better facilities for treatment |
and better distribution of the antira bic !
virus According to the Journal of /
the American Medical Association, the 1
situation calls for still greater efforts |
toward the complete eradication of !
this preventa BILE disease
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
EVENING CHAT
zone hour alone is in our hands,
By RUTH CAMERON.

"One hour alone is in our hands,
The hour on which the shadow
stands.''-The Sun Diars Motto.
Next winter when L have more
time" l heard young girl say the
other day, Il am going to plan and
follow out regular course of read
ing
why shall you have more time
next winter?'' 1 inquired idly, not in
tending to question her statement but
to find the reason for it.
why, don't know. I don't suppose
there is any special reason" she ans
wered with laugh that ended in
something like sigh. "Only soma
how one always expects that some day
things will be different, and one will
have more time to do the things one
wants to do and ought to do
Was ever a truer word spoken in an
idle moment?
Was there ever a human being who
was not deceived by that sweet, illogI-
cal, perennial hope that some day
things would be different; some d4v
one would have more time; some day
life would smooth out and become less
broken and haphazard; some day one
would begin to be thrifty and system
attic; in short, that some day one
would do all praiseworthy and won
derful things?
Next winter we say, IT shan't
have so many Interruptions. L will
accomplish more" and of course next
Next month" we say, II will begin
to save money; there won't be so
many things coming up that I want
and need" And, of course, next
money are different but just as nu-
merous as they were before.
Il used to think" a woman of SIS
or 10 said to me the other day, half
in fun and half in genuine dismay,
that as I grew older 1 would find it
easier to be good and unselfish and all
that sort of thing. But it isn't the
least bit easier; it's harder If any
thing. I guess shall have to make a
good hard effort right now if I'm ever
going to be good.''
Wise woman to have realized what
so many of US come to the eleventh
hour of life without finding out!
To be sure a miracle may happen
and wonderful change in character
or opportunity may come to you or
me, but it's 1893 chances to one that
the measure of today is the measure
of tomorrow, that each of us has all
ability today, that we will have to-
'Manana" is drug that has ruined
more careers than opium ever has
Our lazy hope in an illogica11y won-
derful some day, is a wil1-o'-the-wisp |
IL leads us into the boys of inertia and
non accomplishment and then van |
ishes entirely and leaves US old and |
IATed ana without satisfaction or hope. |
Do you want more time to do the |
things worth while?
Then take it today. That's the only
way to get it,
Do you want to be systematic and
efficient and make the most of your
opportunities and abilities?
Today is the grandest time that
ever happened for doing just that.
Do you hope some day to be more
unselfish, more clean, more kind-fn
short, nearer to your idea of the
measure of a man or woman?
My friend, you will never be any of
these things if you wait until some
day. Today is the accepted time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
PARK vANDALs.

This vandalism that is being prac-
ticed in the city parks must be discour-
aging, to say the least, to the city au-
thorities and the public spirited citizens
who are striving so hard these days 10
improve these recreation grounds and
make them more attractive in every
possible way. No criticism can be too
severe for those who Rave MANNED or
killed birds and animals that have been
placed in the parks, and who have also
destroyed valuable trees and shrubbery.
Neither should pains nor expense be
spared to run these miscreants down
and punish them as they deserve.
Surely they must be thoughtless
youngsters, who, at the same time, are
old enough to know better. It is in
conceivable that mature persons would
be guilty of any of these acts that have
been perpetrated in the parks, although
there are hints that this is so. 1t is Al
most inconceivable that any grown up,
unless he be mentally deficient and in
excusably outside the confines of an in
sane asylum, would purposely attempt
to destroy, or injure the specimens IF
wild life that have been placed in the
parks at considerable expense.
But whether the vandals are young or
old, they should be hunted as assid-
uoTsly as is the thief who plies his
trade with a Jimmy and a dark lantern.
They are a disgrace to the city, and
every effort should be made to make
proper examples of them.
If this park vandalism keeps up. 1T
wouldn't be at all surprising if the |
many persons in town who are giving |
OF their private means to add to the de-
lights of the parks should tie tight their
purse strings in this particular, and
cease their endeavors along this line
They would be perfectly justified in 20
doing and the people of the whole city
would be the losers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
JAYHAWKER JOTy

And it seems quite appropriate that
Miss Della Lake should live at Luz
cerne, Sheridan county.
Putting on style often means putting
off creditors, explains G. T. A. of the
Minneapolis Better Way.
Even time is no cure for ;nexperi-
euce, observes the Minneapolis MeSSen-
ger, unless it has a noodle to work on.
Anna Carlson of the Lindsbcrg
News thinks that there ara no more
George Washingtons because wives
persist in asking so many foolish ques-
tions-
What has become of the plan or
making denatured alcohol SO cheap
that it would supplant gasoline? in
quireS the Peru Derrick, and it Sug
gests: Let John D. be searched.
One of the most dangerous habits
people can indulge in is that of lying
in bed, advises the jennings Echo.
Nine-tenths of all the deaths occur in
bed. Nearly one-half of all those who
are murdered are murdered in bed. 1t
is while you are in bed that your house
is robbed and your chickens stolen. 1t
bite you and bad dreams haunt you.
Therefore, dear reader, never go to
bed.
He sat in his door at noon-f ay lone
ly and gIum and sad; the flies were
buzzing about him, led by a blue
winged "gad;" not a customer darken-
ed his portal, not a sign of business
was there, but the flies kept OH buzzlng
about the old mans hair. At last. in
misery he shouted, "Great Scott, I'm
covered with f1ies'' and The zephyrs
that toyed with his whiskers, whisper
ed why don't you advertise p
Waterville Telegram.
Let Us Be Brief is the title of the
following prose poem by Arthur Rid
die: 1 claim that when a fellows
mad, as mad as he can be, because of
some hard luck he's had, OF good ac-
counts gone to the bad claiIEl, tween
you and me, he has rtst to tear
and snort and rend his clothes in
twain; to spill jnvectives by the quart,
and act as though the probate court
had labeled him insane. We let an ar
fist wear his hair Arranging to his
knees, and show the manners OF
bear. a crank. spoiled child or million
aire. whichever he may please. There's
no excuse at all for him, except that
he's a freak; but woe that's fat and
luck that's slim will cause L business
man with vim and vitrio1 to speak !
However, I agree with you that even |
business men who have some cuss1ng
thew must do should do it well and get
It through, and then should smile
again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
RAILWAYS AND THE PUBLIC.

THE railways have been LompeIled
to raise the wages of their men during
the last few years and to pay more for
supplies, and they have asked the IN
terstate commerce commission to be
permitted to increase their rates so as
to recoup themselves. This the com
mission has refused, and the conse-
quence is that the railways are in a
serious predicament," writes A. Maur-
ice Low in Harper's Weekly Their
expenses are constantly increasing and
their revenues are not keeping pace
with their expenditures. Operating ex-
penses for the month of May this year
as compared with May last year n
creased $S,506,0O4 or $24.29 per mile
of line, equivalent to "a per cent, and
the net operating revenue was s1723,
or Il per cent. less this year than last
For the month of May this year the
railways paid $9,s97,SO1 in taxes
which is equivalent to $45 for every
mile of line operated, and tr.at was an
increase of 90 per cent. over May of
last year. If a person who owned a
house; whether in city or country, or
a farmer. had mis- taxes increased 10
per cent. in a single year ne would
make tremendous howl about it, and
SAS- 7-eAtS u hiuAi1SAPeA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
responsible for this additional burden
would go down before the Indignation
of the taxpayers; but the railways have
to stand it and be thankful that it
isn't worse. And no doubt it will be
a surprise to those persons who think
that the railways get something for
nothing and oy some hanky-panky
manage to escape paying their taxes,
that in a single month they paid taxes
at the rate of $45 a mile for every mile
they operated.
''In the end, of course, after a good
deal of mischief has been done. the
increases which the railways now ask
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06

frightened somewhere in the DARK
waiting for you!"
Let me up and I'll get out Of
here!'' Max let him rise, and in an
instant he was running, crashing off
through the brush. DruSie found her
voice-the dark was now terror to
her.
Maxi Maxi" Her call was clear
came toward her, and she went
trembling to meet him.
Are you-al right, Drusie?
Suddenly she went to him, put
ting both her hands on his arm.
"Take me home," she said, break
Take me home!" He put a firm
arm about her and led her from the
wood and across the pasture, but he
said nothing about loving her. The
unreal, the dream of the man VINO
had gone, left her mind, and she saw
how close she had been-not to
great danger to herself, but to the
calamity of losing Max-if indeed she
had not already lost him.
Drusie," he said at length, Il
don't want a wife that doesn't want
me. When you have made up your
take your decision. But what 1 do
want to know is whether you have
seen enough tonight to make you
sure you don't want-that fellow.
DO you? :"
She shivered. you know I-hate
him, she breathed. you know
must have been crazyl You know I
have never really wanted anybody hut
you! You know I want you to fer
give mel
AS they came to the barn old Beau
ty put out her head again, and Max
laughed and turning to Drusie took
her close in his arms
Home is best. isn't it? Even if
home folks are common and plain
But they love you, girl" AS they
came toward the house the girls ia
Their put his gray head from the win
dow of his room.
Who's there?" he demanded bel
Max answered:
"Only Max he said quietly. "I
coaxed Drusie out a couple of hours
ago. 1t took us long time to make
up. Sorry I'm bringing her in so late.
She's all right
Drusie knew that her fathers grunt
was grunt of deep joy. She knew
he would sleep that night.-(Copy-
1912. by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
GLOBE SIGHTS
nv THE ATCHIsOE GLOBE.
Men blame too much on force of habit

Men blame too much on force OF naDlt-
BOYS and bankers take all the hohoays-
If YOU lack self-confidence, you might
borrow some from candidate
So many girls want the ring ceremony
with a three ring accompaniment
After all. the best heads of hair were
nrocnred bv taking care of what the Lord
Onlv a few men can dance well enough
to appreciate the hugging that goes with
When a woman starts out to lead man
a dogs life she is apt to overestiiiate tHe
hardships of being dog.
When a mans wife elopes with another
man he might have had worse luck; she
might not have eloped.
We have no great admiration for inc
sort of temperance man who wants the
beer wagon to drive up in the night
Neither can we see that woman's
honor or standing in the community was
ever greatly improved by horsewhipplng
a man.
''I have observed that when a man goes
home to be comforted in his time of trial
and tribulation, it is apt to indicate he
hasn't been married a great while. -
Rnfo HOSkinS,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
SAYS UNCLE CAV

Back in Puckyhuddle 1 knew boy
who afterward came up to the city
with very definite ideas as to how tc
make the world better. First, he mas
tered the business that he had chosen
1t was a business that some of you
would shy at, but my friend didn' t.
At first glance, you wouldn't have
taken him for a budding philanthro-
pist, but of all the philanthrop1Sts in
the world he, in his small way, is
the most effective I know Of And he
won't admit being a philanthropist or
an 'uplifter.' He says that he only
plays the game as it should be played.
When he finally had a business of
his own, he was ready to put his
ideas into execution. He started with
ordinary Inen-jIst the common run OF
employees. fairly dependable, fairly ef-
ficient, fairly well paid.
But they were not the men he was
after One night he found a man
who was down and out; practically
the man was acting as lookout in a
gambling house. He took that man by
the arm and walked him up to his
place of business
You are going to work for me in
the place of that clerk over there,
he said. ct have found a better job
for him. 1 will pay you more than
he is getting. But if you ever touch
another card or go back to your old
place of employment, I'm going to
come after you and give you the
worst licking you ever got"
He found four drunkardS, couple
of tramps and a dozen other men who
had tasted the dregs of life. He made
pretty nearly the same speech to all
of them. He put them to work and
trusted them. He watched them, but
they didn't know they were being
watched. He lost two of the number.
The rest stuck.
Il haven't a great deal of money"
he said to me one night over the
cigars. This is small business. I'd
like to do something for the other poor
devils, but 1 can't. Money won't help
them. And I'm not a charitable in
stitution, anyway. I'm getting 100 per
cent profit on these men and paying
them better than anybody else would.
And 1 have taken them out of the
mud. I have treated them like men
and put them to work. There's a lot
of human energy going to waste, an
it has been my privilege to make. use
of some of it. You've got lot of high
toned sociological IDEAS, but have you
got anything more practical than
that?"
I hadn't The only difficulty in the
way of this mans plan for regenerat-
ing the world is the disposition of the
potential ''uplifters'' to neglect similar
ortunities.-(Copyrig 1912, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06

One of the most wonderful caves In
the world has been found in southern
Arizona. Unnamed. incompletely ex-
pIored, and almost unknown is the vast
cavern. Only a few persons have dared
enter to view its grandeur and to
study the wondrous work of nature.
The cave lies in the foothills of the
Hunchua Mountains, about 40 miles
northwest of Nogales, Santa CrucS
county Exploring parties have en-
tered and spent days inside, but none
port paSsageways, rooms, and cham
bers innumerable, some enormous In
size, of transparent stalactitic columns
One room has a level and smooth moor,
and they have called IL the dance hall.
and others have unfathomed pits ana
chasms.
One party returning here said that
immense stalactite columns extending
from roof to flor may be seen on either
side of the entrance. AS they proceeded
on their downward journey the forma-
lions became more interesting, until
they found themselves in labyrinth OF
passages resembling Railways. windows
or entrances into other rooms or charn-
bers, in which appeared stalactites N
thin sheets, round, square, and, in fact,
il almost all shapes conceivable rom
a few inches to 30 feet in length
In the first chamber a most beautt-
full stalagmite rises from the floor 70
about 20 feet in height, and stands out
and alone in all It's Silent
spIendor. Others can be seen, and have
their individual beauty, but they do not
compare with this monarch.
OF the discovery little is known. Pat
McCarty of Camille, was perhaps the
first local explorer Of the cave On one
of his trips he found the skeleton of a
man lying on a shelf, which readily
crumbled on being handled. Some In
dian pottery and beads have been
found, samples of which are on exni-
bition at the Tucson University.-No
gales CAriz.) Dispatch to Chicago Inter
Ocean
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will be granted. for there il no more
reason why the railways hould be
made to do business at loss than that
shoemakers should be compelled to sell
boots for less than they cost; but in
the meantime the public will suffer
through inferior service and the post
ponement of Improvements that are
urgently demanded, and the public as
usual. will have to pay for the folly
of legislators; for everything that adds
OF the cost of the railways doing bust
ness must ultimately be paid by the
public at large"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
You can save yourself a lot of trouble
by keeping it to yourself.
Some men seem to spend most of their
time turning over new leaves.
Hoax-''Why does a woman carry a
watch?" Joax-"To tell how late she is
Unfortunately, many man who is TOD
proud to beg isn't too honest to steal
In selecting a site for blind asylum
would you consult an architect or al
oculist?
Some peoples only idea of being sincere
is to be privileged to say disagreeable
things.
Some of US are so constituted that we
are never happy unless we are FEELING
sorry for others.
Blobbs-':Why do those two girls botn
hate you SOP" Slobbs-'I once innocentiy
remarked that they looked alike
Wigg-''Bjones says he has put his love
in cold storage" Wagg-''YeS, 1 under
stand he has just become engaged to
Boston girl
She-"The widow, you know, has to look
out for number one" He-"And I SUI
pose she -oes that by looking out for
number two"
Covetousness is the most common far
ing. The poor envy the luxuries of the
rich, in spite of the fact that they don't
seem to make the rich any happier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
A SONG OF TONIC.

A SONG OF TONIC.
Eet was Irish Maggie
Dat catch my hearta first
An max eet jump eensida me
So like eet COMA burst
Dough cen my breast was seengin' birds
My domba tongue was STEEL,
Baycause had not Anglaice words
For tai her how l feel
She's goin', for dat had not words
For tai her how 1 feel.
Now CONS Italian Rosa
For max me love her more
Da leetla birds eensida me
Seeing louder dan bayfore
But, oh. I am so sadda mani.
My domba tongue ees STEEL:
have no words italian
For tai her how I feel
Not even words Italian
For tai her how 1 feel.
IT. A. Daily, in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
HUNOR or THE DAY

DIR. A.-So Higgins died after all. I
thought the operation was going to be a
success? Surgeon Bit was. We collect
ed the bill in advance.-Life.
do you always keep a-smilng about
your daily duties?'' Nav; look grouchy
all the time. Then I amt asked to do no
extra work.'-Louisville Courier-J ournal
Trying to PIease--Wife in railway
train)-It's mortifyirS to have you act
so. Why don't you get up and help that
young lady raise the Window Dutiful
Husband-She's SO pretty I was afraid
you'd be mad.-Foster, In New York
Weekly.
BiIly's Notion.-'Papa, began little
Billy, 'ff they should want to cut out
NV ap-ap-'' '.Cut out your appetite ?''
surprfsed1y calculated his sire. What are
you talking about?" Not my appetite;
my ap-appendix- The doctors would have
an awful time finding it, I guess. don't
know where it is myself!'-Judge.
"Going away this summer?'' mo NY
wife has decided she can get all tired out
more comfortably by STAYING at home.''-
Detroit Free Press.