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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
KANSAS COMAENT

ONE MORE TRIBUTE TO KANSAS.
Inc Wanderer is back from a two
months tour of the Pacific" states
oack from the land of sage brush and
cactus, back from the vine clad hills
and sun-kissed valleys, back from the
land OF orange groves and geranium
FENCES, back from the country where
they sell climate at fabulous prices
ana throw in lot of soil for good
measure, back from the land where
the rose bushes and real estate agents
bloom perennially, back from the
land of glowing IMAGINATION
MueIe everybody is rich in anticipa-
tlon, back from the land whore the
tenderfoot can have his wealth am
putated with greater skill and less pain
lnan anywhere else on earth, the land
Where the winds are tempered to the
shorn lamb back from xvhera thev
harvest fat tourists and garner GREEN
horns by the carload at all seasons Of
the year, back from towns every one
or which is the center of all creation
ana all the rest of the world tributary
territory, back from where sucker
anglers do a big business during the
open season, which is twelve months
IN the year, back from where the
mountains alone are higher than the
price OF lands, back from the land of
fascinating fiction, back from the land
OF perpetual summer with variations.
never mentioned, back from booster
land, back from boomland, back from
fa1ryland, back from dreamland, back
from the bustling, boosting, booming.
blooming, beautiful, bully west, back
TO something substantial. back to real
realities, back to the land of corn and
wheat and alfalfa and hogs and cat
tie, back to big bins and bank accounts.
back to fine farm houses. back where
farmers deliver eggs and rich yellow
butter in automobiles. back where
prices are not highwaynan, back to
an all-around country, back to the
worlds granary, back to the center Of
things, back to terra firma, which be-
ing interpreted means back to earth,
back to the most progressive. most
virile, most independent, most fearless
state in the galaxy, back to the state
where they do things politically and
morally, back to sane. sunny sunf1ower,
saloonless Kansas. back homei-E. w.
Hoch in his Wanderers Notes in
the Marion Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
EVENING CHAT
By RUT5z CAMERON.

"It is only now and then that a man
learns something, but he forgets the
whole day long. Our memory is like a
sieve that with time and use holds less
and less."-Schopenhau
How long is it since you have visit
ed school?'
have always believed that it is
every mothers bounden duty to visit,
at least once a term. the school where
her children are spending almost half
their waking hours. Lately I have
been convinced that it would be
mighty good thing If other mothers
visited school, once in while.
For what purpose, you ask! wen,
partly for the pleasure of the memories
and association which such an expert
interesting and instructive purpose OF
discovering, how little we really know
after all, how much more than we,
even the little pig-tailed and freckled-
faced boys and girls know.
Perhaps you think I am overstating
that. If you do, it is all the more rea-
son you should accept my invitation
some day. Believe me, no group of
college professors will make you more
aware of your colossal ignorance than
a class of grammar. school youngsters
reciting their freshly learned lessons.
Say the class is IN geography and
they are going over. the capitols and
principal cities of the various countries.
How often do you know the answer be-
fore it is given? Unless you are over
fifty, and thus of the old school which
really learned things like geography.
you will probably be amazed to find
how little you know.
Not long ago I went to an evening
party where the hostess surprised us by
substituting a geographical game for
the conventional entertainment. There
were half a dozen questions to answer,
such as the capitals Of all the coun-
try, questions which should have been
comparatively simple to all of us, but
I assure you that there was no trouble
in selecting the prfZ9 winner. He was
a man considerably over sixty who had
learned those things in the good old
fashioned way. The only difficult was
to decide among the candidates for the
consolation prize.
Suppose the lesson is in history, and
the dates of some of the big events IN
our history are called for, will you be
any better off than you We're in the
geography class?
Or suppose the class in spelling holds
the floor, do you think you would stand
at the head Of the class If you entered
into competition with the youngsters?
1T is only now and then that man
learns something, but he forgets the
whole day long How much we have
forgotten, and how very little we really
know, after all. Truly it is a most
humbling lesson which the little schol-
ars will turn teacher to teach us!
Don't think this is all Just talk. but
some day when you have a chance, try
visiting school," am sure you'll learn
quite as much as the scholars, and
your lesson will be about that most i'm
portant of all subjects-yourself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
AYHAWKER JOT.S

J. w. Hammer is one of the boost
| ers at Osborne.
The biggest fish gets away. there
fore he never gets a weigh, explains
the Potter Kansan.
Such sharp ears has the Waldo Ad-
vocate that it heard some wedding
bells ringing" not so long ago.
1t occurs to the Potter Kansan that
Mr.. Riley, Kansas City liquor deal
er, ought to spell his name Ryeley.
One of Mack Cretcher's observa-
tions: The cream is usually on the top
but so is the foam. Don't get chesty
You may be the foam.
AS long as she carries her age well,
woman isn't much of a burden to her
self, thinks the Associate Editor of the
Englewood Leader-Tribune.
Alb Adkins is quoted by the Atchison
Globe as saying that if he ever joins
the Socialist party, seeing a woman
carry white poodle around in an au-
tomobile probably will be the cause.
AS A. T. Random of the Harrington
Sun expresses it: The man whose
tungsten light sensitiveness causes
him to break at the slightest jar is
not going to set the world afire with
the radiance of his success.
Lese majestic on the part of the
Belleville Telescope: There are a
good many Republicans who take ex-
ceptions to the governor of this state
SOIIIS Oul ONSI hdI1SdS HldhIHS CS4nl-
paign speeches for a fractional candi-
date for the presidency. The conten-
ton is made that a governor is en-
ployed to look after the business and
affairs of state.
Talking about newspapers getting
rich from country printing, says the
Alma Signal, the Eskridge Tribune
and the two Alma papers will pull
down a pot of thirty cents-count 'em
thirty cents-for the publication of
the final tax notice now running in the
three papers. And that thirty cents
is to be divided among the three.
Rickel will install a linotype; Little
has his eye on a high power buzz
wagon; while real estate is always our
choice as an investment. We some
times think the common people do not
realize the cares entailed by the pos
session of great riches.
In a clever travesty on the reports
appearing in outside papers about the
dire straits that the people of CHM
arron We're placed in when the recent
heavy SHOWS cut that town off for a
while from communication with its
Elmer Peterson of the
Cimarron Jacksonian had this to say,
among other things: I'VE cannot con-
ceal the fact any longer. The town
ran out of it's customary supply of
bananas on Tuesday. Not a one could
be bought for love or money from
Tuesday night until Thursday. Fa-
theirs wept copiously into their shirt
sleeves as they heard the pitiful
meanings of their little children who
had to go to bananaless beds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
says UNCLE CAV

You'll never amount to anything un
til you pry yourself loose from yes
terday. The good old way was a fine
thing when it was new; it would be a
fine thing today if the opposition hadn't
found way to beat it. Yesterday
successes would be all that could be
desired, no doubt. if somebody hadn'
won bigger success today. And yes
terday's woes might have been heart
breaking if today,st light hadn't shown
them to be small compared to the i'm
minent trouble of the hour. Yester-
day, after all, was a little day-if you're
growing-and if you're not growing
this is not for you.
Yesterdays achievements. yesterdays
problems, and yesterdays hodgepodgc
of grief and joy have gone the way o.
all the earth and you are no longer
seriously interested in them. They were
little things-littIe, whether they were
good or bad. This day is a big day
events grow like weeds, overnight,
and those men who succeed in the big
sense grow with them. There is no
nourishment in the empty cupboard OF
a day that is gone. Only the idle
sentimentalist has time to give 1t
thought. 1t is today that feeds you
and makes you strong for the still
bigger tasks of tomorrow. The wise
man throws the closed day away like
appetite to the day that is just at
hand.
Keep clear Of the clutter of the past.
Today is your meat-and it is mos
strong enough for the most exactine
taste, needing neither the spice of for
mer success nor the piquant sauce Of
old regrets. And if you would win, to
your mutton, John Henry, to your
acknowledgement, 1912, by E. Will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

ssPLAY OFF A LITTLE BIT FUR
THEIR.
A Son of Swat. of great renown, sat in a
parlor dim;
And near him sat a young fannette in
person 1.-THE and trim;
"Old Girl, you've made hit with me-" he
opened for lead
You've got the form, you've got the eye,
you've got the curves and speed"
And then he started warming up, the love
stuff in his eye;
He curved a fast one round her neck, the
other was waist high;
Whereat the lady tagged his jaw. and,
as she quickly SHE'D,
She looked like Hughey Jennings on the
line as she replied:
CHORUS.
'PIay off a little bit further, old boy;
Don't hug the base too tight;
What you need is a bit of a lead.
Just little bit more to the right
Don't get to crowding the sack, old top;
Beat it a few feet away
And nix on the squeeze, you collection of
cheese,
For that amt the game 1 play"
The sun-kissed hero of the stands edged
off a bit, and, then
He tried to cut the corner as he skidded
back again;
Once more he started crowding in, I'M
mindful of her loss
Once more he boldly tried to put the
grand old Squeeze across.
Just then the Old Man butted in and
slammed him on the bun
A very fine example of the well-known
'hit and rum
For as the battered player hit the dirt
upon the skid ,
He wept to think he'd overlooked the
coaching she had did:
"P1ay off a little bit further, old boy" etc.
Rice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
QUAKER NfEDrTATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

IFrOIn tfbe PhlIddeIphla FecOTu-I
Some fellows can't make love success
fully because they have never developed
the gentle art of lying.
Mrs. Bluffem-''How did she look in her
emotional portrayals?" Mrs. Neurich-
Not very we'll The left sleeve seemed
to be cut on the bias
Mother-''Did you have a good time at
the party?'' Willie-''Naw. said no
when they asked me to have some ice
cream and the stingy things never asked
me again.
Doctor-"Did you sell your vote in the
primaries? "Rastus-"No. sab; Use an
honest Niger. Doan 70 know dis here
strike dun prevent de ward healers from
gittin' any coal?''
I squirm and twist and wiggIe now and
scratch my leg or back; Il pine and fret
with frowning brow and try another tack
am coward mi I guess, for though
my cup is full I'd rather bear this itchl
ness than too quickly shake ali wool.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nobody ever kicks on a deal If he
holds winning cards.
X X 4
A woman without a looking glass
would be like ship without a rudder.
y X
People who are always telling what
they are going to do seldom do much.
x X y
The chances are that much more
time is wasted than is used profitably.
X *
No matter how smart a man is
there are plenty others who can give
him valuable pointers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IF'rom the New York PressJ
A woman's pretenses can be more gen.
uine to her than a mans realities to him
An optimist is one who can fool himself
about a thousand times easier than ne
can anybody else.
a woman with a new gown will take
the same chances rain that man
with some money will on investment
When girl gets a proposal, it is so
sudden she has the whole family in the
next room Sc as to let them know it right
away.
A man is very cheerful about relations
coming to fill the house when he is going
to be away on a business trip at that
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

And some people might be mean
enough to construe this as meaning
that the colonel was hardly satisfied
with the way Mr.. Stubs has been
conducting the Roosevelt campaign
here. It's a fact that the governors
activities in this direction have not
BEEN entirely successful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
SHE RULES OVER CANN1BALs

Princess Sieta, ruler of the Ensize
Indians, tribe of warriors making
their homes in the remote Businesses
of the Peruvian Andes, is a guest in
Philadelphia. With her is the prince
consort, formerly Texas cowp51ncher-
whom she rescued from her man eat
ing tribe when he was a prisoner, mar
RED him and made him a sharer of
her rule. The tribe has LOO mem
bers, 800 of whom are warriors
The prince and princess are on their
last lap OF a two years tour of the
world. They will go to washington.
thence to San Francisco, where thew
VIII take ship for South America.
reaching home after a two hundred
mile horseback ride.
The princess is 80 years old. She
mas an olive complexion, dark hair,
and dark eyes. She was educated in
England and speaks English fluently.
She is writing a history of her people
While intensely interested in Ameri-
cans, she is anxious to get back home
to see her year old son, who is be-
ing held hostage by the tribe to in
sure the return of the prince and prin-
cess.
over which she rules dwells 200 miles
from civilization in a country of can
nibals and head hunters. The tribe
still is in a sem:savage condition but
owing to the teachings of the prince
and princess there is much less can
nibalism. The princess hopes it will
entirely disappear with the coming
generation.
The princess told how she met her
American husband. Jack Chism, the
prince, is the son OF the late Hiram
Chism, formerly a ranch owner in the
Texas Panhandle. Jack" sought his
fortune in Peru and was captured bv
the tribe now ruled by him. He was
captured while the princess was being
educated in England and was a pris-
oner upon her return. One day she
noticed him and spoke to him in Eng
lish. He responded and the romance
stated. She demanded that his life
be spared and she married him.
To account for her English education
the princess says:
my fathers name was Prince Mer-
hyr. When I was years old an
Englishman, an attache of the British
legation at Lima. Peru, wandered into
our tribe wounded and nearly dying
from starvation. He had penetrated
into the interior in search of orchids
He took a liking to me and persuad-
ed my father to send me to England to
be educated. My mother and mem
bers Of the tribe objected. but I was
finally permitted to go.''-Philadelphia
dispatch to the New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
HUMOR or THE DIP

she-And would you really put yourself
out for my sake? He-Indeed, I would.
She-Then do It, please. I'm awfully
sleepy.-Williams Purple cow.
whatever IS the matter with F'ido -
'sOh, isn't It horrid? gave hdm to the
Iaundress to wash and she starched him.
-Tit-Bits.
Sillicus-I can truthfully say I never for
get a favor. Cynicus-Nothing remarkable
about that. The fellow we accept favor
from seldom lets US forget it.-Philadal-
phia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
DAFFYDHS
BY o. NOALL-

If a German could be your nephew
could you also have a Japanese?
(Wasn't she the foolish girl to leave
a good home for the likes of him?)
If the Sphynx is in Egypt is the
pyramid the deserts2
(The Jig is up We have been be-
trayed.1
When visiting player makes a home
run does the baseball?
(Take him out, Cap. and put in u
real pitcher)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

A report comes from Washington
that President Taft has decided to
make pointed replies to much of the
unfair criticism that Colonel Roosevelt
has leveled at him. President Taft
should have done this long ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Great joy in the Roosevelt camp.
The Oregon delegation to the Chicago
convention has been annexed. Oregon
has eight votes in the convention. This
great victory in Oregon was more
than offset a day or SO ago by the vic
tory of President Taft in obtaining the
delegation from Connecticut, which is
fourteen strong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

This is a curious old world, indeed
Not so many months ago Colonel Aston
was being criticised and ridiculed by
the big metropolitan newspapers for
marrying a young girl so soon after
being divorced from his first wife. Now
these same papers are singing his
praises as being one of the heroes of
all tina
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Experts in the premises assert that
when the Panama canal gets into OPP
Grafton, 1t viii stimulate materially
the traffic on the rivers of this country.
What the many people along these big
rivers need more is some system that
viii protect them from floods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Clarence s. Darrow's trial on charges
that he attempted to tamper with the
Mcnamara Jury is soon to be started.
There is no indication, though, that
Mr.. Darrow will follow his advice tc
the McNamaras and plead guilty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

After the generally fine performance
of the men on the Titanic, the women
surely won't have any cause for alarm
that they will not always be protected
properly even If woman's suffrage is
denied them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

In NEUROLOGICAL lore a hero is an
illustrious man supposed to be ex-
allied, after death, to a place among
the gods. And surely there is no
place too high in the hereafter for
the heroes on the Titanic who stood
aside. that the women might be
saved, and went down with the ship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Peter d. DAILY of New York, one of
the surviving passengers on the Titan
&c, must surely be entitled to all the
championship medals for swimming.
He swan around in the icy waters for
six long hours before he was rescued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Mans creations are marvellous, but
the loss of the Titanic again shows
that nothing which man can build is
able to combat the destructive forces
OF nature. The iceberg is to the deep
what the tornado is to the plains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Strange things happen occasionally.
For instance, a Kansas Anti-Horse
Thief association, located at Arkansas
City, actually brought about the cap
ture of a horse thief recently, and
within a few hours from the time of
the theft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Violations of the Kansas game laws
are rather expensive luxuries, that are
scarcely worth while. Many Kansans
have found this out to their sorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

That part Of Kansas through which
Colonel Roosevelt passed gave him an
enthusiastic welcome. But did any
part of Kansas ever deny the same
kind of welcome to any prominent
visitor? Less than a year ago Kansas
gave as large and as hearty a-welcome
to President Taft as it ever gave to
auV man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

AS far as the recalling of decisions is
concerned. Colonel Roosevelt certainly
practices what he breaches. He re-
calls his own decisions on all important
matters whenever it suits his own
convenience
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

tions. This is the very intent and
purpose of the constitution of the
United States, and of the judges that
we elect and appoint to uphold it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

According to Harper's Weekly Presi-
dent Taft already has 337 delegates to
the Republican national convention
and is sure of 232 more at least, max
ing a clear majority for him on the
first ballot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Colonel Roosevelt has been vigorous
in times past with excavations on the
iynching of negroes in the south. Yet
.hat is nothing but a phase of the mob
rule that he is now so urgently sup
porffnQ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Battling Nelson is a most UNUSUAL
prize fighter. He admits that Il is out
of the question for him to come back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

'fWhat beautiful picture of an angelP'
said the lady who was visiting the art
gallery. Yes replied the aviation en-
thusiast; but between you and me those
wings aren't practical Washington
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

by George. old chap when I look at
one of your paintings stand and won
der How do it?'' 'No-why you do
it''-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22

Colonel Roosevelt says his visit to
Kansas was due to Governor Stubs.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-18
This HonzesMade Cough
Syrup Uilt Surprise You
Stops Even WhoopinG Cough
Quickly. 4 Family supply
Mt Small Cost.

Here is a homemade remedy that
takes hold OF a cough instantly, and will
usually cure the most stubborn case in
"a hours. This recipe makes a pint
enough Tor n whole family. You couldn't
buy as much or as good ready~made
cough syrup for $3.50.
Mix one pint OF granulated sugar with
II pint OF warm water, and stir 2
minutes. Put 2la ounces OF Pinex (iifty
cents WORTH in Il pint bottle, and add
the Sugar Syrup. This keeps perfectly
aud has pleasant taste-children like
II, Braces w. the appetite and j. slightly
laxative, which helps end a cough.
You probably know the medical valuc
Of pine in treating asthma, bronchitis
and other throat troubles, sore lungs,
etc. There IS nothing better, Pinex is
the most valuable concentrated compound
of Norway white pine extract. rich in
Gualacol and all the natural healing pine
elements. Other preparations will not
work IN this formula.
Tho prompt results from This inexpen.
slve remedy bave made friends for IL in
thousands OF homes in the United States
and Canada. which explains why the
plan has been initiated often, but never
successfully.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction. or
money promptly refunded. goes with this
recipc. Your druggist has Pincx, or Will
Eet-it sor .vou.- III not send 10 The
Pine1 Co, IT. Wayne, Ind.