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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CA16ERoN.

There was once young man who
had a habit of making wild and exag-
gerated statements about many things.
People who knew this man took stock
of this habit of his and were accustom-
ed to allow for it in listening to him.
Now one day, this young man made
an exact and true statement about a
certain matter in which he was deeply
interested. "Oh, yes" said his friends
in answer, that sounds well, but you
know you are inclined to exaggerate
and I'm afraid you are making those
figures too big
But I'm not protested the young
man Indignantly. It know what I'm
talking about, and you'd better be-
lieve me-"
His friends smiled indulgently and
went their way, still thinking they had
been listening to one of his usual wild
and exaggerated statements. Now
later developments proved that the
young man was quite right and abso-
lutely accurate, and he went around
and pointed this out to flis friends.
Yes they admitted, you were right
allowing for your exaggerations that
you must not blame us for doing IL
this time
In which they We're quite right
Now the moral of this little play is
not-don't exaggerate. It's just this
IL yO0 nave Taught YOUR Ir1enQS to
pect certain quality in you, don't
complain when they judge all your acts
in the light of that quality. They are
simply doing the logical thing.
The man who is abnormally cautious.
is indignant when some act of his.
which really has nothing to do with his
sense of caution, is attributed to that.
He has no right to be indignant His
friends were simply applying the rule
which he himself taught them.
The woman who is hyper-critfcaI feels
aggrieved because some speech of hers.
which she intended as kindly, is re-
ceived as If it were critically meant.
She has no right to be aggrieved. Her
friends are only seeing in her what she
has taught them to look for.
When the boy of Aesop fame called
for help at the approach of real danger.
no one would believe him in earnest,
because he had cried wolf, wolf" in
fun SO many times that they thought
ne must be always hooking them
In the same way, our daily habits
teach people to expect certain things
from us, and we have no right to corn
plain when they judge some speech or
act of ours in the light of this expecta-
ton, even if the Judgment does hap
pen to be incorrect.
They are acting in a perfectly logical
way, and We have only ourselves to
blame If we do not like the interpreta-
ton we have taught them to put llpon
US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
RAILRoAD HEALTH OFFICERS.

The house fly is now generally recog-
nized as the most dangerous carrier OF
disease. But what about the average
railroad passenger train and station!
Practically every railroad company
makes a more or less earnest effort to
keep its coaches and stations clean But
it must be apparent that few, if any,
of them are maintained in a strictly
sanitary. condition. A weary man. on
a Journey, his powers of resistance to
disease germs weakened by too much
work, may occupy a seat upon which
had reclined, short time before, a VIC
tim of consumption seeking a cure in
mild climate. A delicate woman may
sleep in birth in which tossed, the
night before, somebody in the first
stages of typhoid fever And the COM
mon waiting rooms in some of the pas
senger stations are often SO foul as to
be offensive to the flostrils.
1t is to the credit of the railroads
that some of them have recognized this
danger and without suggestion or COM
pulsion from the OUTSIDE hav, taken a
very practical way at least to lessen 1t.
The Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mis-
sissippi Valley companies have each
added a health officer to their official
organizations. 1t will be the duty of
these new officials to devise means of
safeguarding the health not only of
passengers, but of the railroad en-
ployees as well. Probably the first
move they will make will be to insist
that every passenger coach and waiting
room shall be kept thoroughly clean
and scientifically sterilized.
Undoubtedly other companies will
follow the example of these two. And
it seems inevitable that before very
long sanitary rules for passenger
coaches and stations will be included IN
the interstate railroad regulations of
the federal government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

The price OF peace comes in many
forms, including alimony.
An Atchison man is drawing a big
amount of interest on his promises.
An sAtchison man spends entirely too
much time just meaning we'll -
Ham is pretty good, but not good enough
to disguise storage eggs So
It must disappoint the undertaken when
man backs up from Deaths Door
Milkmen see so many slouchy women
it is a wonder they ever marry
Members of the Efandholders union sell
dom strike, but they may be locked out
occasionally.
You often hear it said of man that
he is his own worst enemy. POSSIBLY that
is true in case of a suicide.
You may not help much, but probably
more than the. election contest, which is
becoming popular form of amusement.
Except when they are running for office,
men generally like to create the impress
sion that they are somewhat aristocratic-
although tea is mollycoddle's bever-
age, it seems to me, have to admit that
the Japanese, who are raised on II, fight
pretty well''-Rufe Hoskins.
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ond term: in that event the nation
would in the future be spared the hui
initiation of a president and an ex-
president stumping tho country as can
didates and, as a natural sequence,
abusing each other. Four years is adj
verse to efficiency, because large por-
ton of the term is occupied in salts
flying the opportunities of off1ceseek-
ers, who always follow with a rush on
the beginning of new administration.
By giving the president a longer term
we should enable him to carry our
policies with steadier continuity, we
should diminish political turmoil, and
public opinion could enforce its will
quite as promptly as ever through con-
gress itself. We should lose nothing
politically by a six-year term, and
would gain great deal commercial
ly by such a change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
says UNCLE CAV

He who wins fame or riches or
place at the expense of character pays
too much for his baubles. It is no
mere sickly sentiment that in time he
will come to realize that they are
baubles and that the price was ex-
orbitant. Moral laws are no accidents,
neither is their enforcement a matter
of within, and he who commits moral
self destruction inflicts upon himself
an awful calamity.
Deep as mother blood in each of us
is the yearning for self approval and
the approval of our neighbors With
out the one, existence is barren;
without the other, intolerable. Next
to food and air, the ability to Justify
our own acts and to claim the ap-
prevail of others are the two most
necessary things in life. We could
better live without light than these.
Upon this point there is no argument.
Ostracism is the most hideous punish
ment ever xnetedJ out by society.
The term "conseienceless' is a mis-
homer. No man is without conscience
of some kind, although what we usu-
ally term conscience is perhaps quite
another thing. TheYdesire to approve
aD-
prevail of others is, at the end of a
searching and somewhat intricate
analysis, found to be the mother rock
of conscience. One does, not exist
without the other
In the heydays of youth, in the
flush of manhood, with the excite
ment of the struggle upon us, we
forget that deeper than the desire of
fame or riches or place lies the de-
sire to be worthy-worthy that we
may approve of ourselves and COM
mand the approval of others. But
misfortune strips from us the false
work of worldly distinctions; old age
topples our crazy superstructure of
ambition, and either the one or the
other, in the course of a long life,
brings US back from the realm of
manhood's logical sophistres to the
domain of instinct and emotion. And
in such an hour who is it that does
not yield to the cry of his heart, glad
in the consciousness of friendship
and work well done, or agonized that
in outstripping the others he has for
feited claim to self respect and put
himself beyond the pale of public ap-
provaI?
Caesar knew these pangs at the
foot of the statue of Pompeyi Ma
poleon wrestled with them at St
Helena, and that old cardinal who
cried out that if he had served his
God as he had his king, he would
not have died forlorn, drank this gall
and vinegar to the dregs. Better Cali
leo stoned and Savonarola on the
pyre, conscious of their deserts and
strengthened by the knowledge that
humanity would yet approve.
If one could brave the punishments
of society, one might defy moral law,
were it not for that instinct which
makes life intolerab1e without the ap-
prevail of self and society. And this
l,-fo ic TI7A fl1~> 49,
sword which is set against the face of
the weary pilgrim seeking the gar
den of Copyright, 1912, by
W. e. Williams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
TFrom the chicago News.I

lETOn1 TIC O1lCdSO NGWS.l
But an actor who cuts no ice is apt to
be a frost.
Too many people mistake wish for an
ambition.
A man may be on the level and still
climb upward.
The incest thing about a few people is
their. obituary.
A man of principle doesn't always draw
the most interest.
Anyway, wrinkles that are the result of
smiles do not count.
Most men are like rainbows-they fol-
low their natural bent.
Some men don't seem to want a reputa :
ton for paying their debts
The fellow who is cornered doesn't
think he getting a square deal.
Try loving yourself as you do your
neighborS and see how you like it.
When the question is popped it is usual
ly followed by a noise like kiss.
The man who lives only for himself
never heads very long funeral process
sion.
We get more fun out of things we spend
money on than things we make money
out of.
A street fight is apt to remind some
married men that there are other places
like home.
When pretty young widow camps on a
bachelors trail. he's as good as egaged or
as bad as married.
You are fully qualified to run an infor-
nation bureau if you can answer half
the questions a small boy can ask.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
AYHAWKER JOTy

As the Canton Pilot tersely puts it:
Every town is just what its citizens
make it.
1t occurs to the Holton Signal that
try if about three-fourths of it's poll
ticians were equipped with Maxim
siIencers.
Some people are so ALFRED i'm
portant, muses. the Village Deacon in
the Osborne Farmer, that when they
pray they order the Lord around just
as they do the hired man.
1t has been discovered, says the
Cimarron Jacksonian,- that the an
cestors of George Washington, away
back in the year 500 were Swedes.
Lindsborg will now have two good
reasons for celebrating Washington's
birthday
When all signs fail and other
crops are short or come up missing.
remarks Sinful Peck in the Hiawatha
News,Democrat, your cheerful old
golden head in the sunshine more
prolific than ever.
An afterthought on the part of the
Erie Record concerning the recent
Neosho Republican county conven-
county boosters should get all they
are expecting, there wouldn't be any
spoils to divide with the rest of the
counties in Kansas
There seems to be good and suffi-
cient reasons for the agitation that
has been started to change the names
of the streets in Montezuma, Gray
county. Among the names that the
street of that town are burdened with
are, Escalante, Mexxiti, Texcoco,
Conquistador, Guatamozin, Cfbola and
lAlarcom.
A prose poem on Being Hero
by Arthur Riddle in his Minneapolis
Messenger: I want to be hero and
with the heroes stand, a laurel wreath
upon my brow, a palm leaf in my
hand. When the rockets are a-shoot-
ing and the band begins to blare;
when the multitudes are tossing all
their bonnets in the air; when the
orators are spouting all their glowing
words of praise and the bards are
reading extracts from their eulogistic
lays; when they're holding celebra-
tions and distributing the pies, want
to be a hero and be Landed to the
skies. But when the crowd is miss
ing and there is no band to play;
when a night of strife descends upon
a hard and sorry day; when only
duty beckons, and have to go alone;
when 1.-The tumult and the shouting
dies and all the guests have flown;
when no parades are marching and
there are no flags to wave-believe
me, Jimmy boy, it's not easy to be
brave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
FOR A SIX YEAR TERM.

From the standpoint of the business
men Of the country, there would seem
to be a no more desirable political re-
form than the election of a president
for term of six years, and denying
to him reelection. Or, at least, that
expert on matters of finance and busi-
ness, Henry Clews, the New York
banker, so writes in his current weekly
financial review. On this point he
says:
The disturbance to business arising
from the presidential election once more
emphasizes the desirability of making
the term of Office six years instead of
four. The present campaign began a
year ago and has been unusually bit
ter and full of personal recrimination.
1t promises to be even more exciting
before the end is known. why should
the legitimate activities of 81, 600, 900 of
people be arrested oftener than neces-
sary? Tt is quite true that the country
will consume as much food, and wear
as many clothes, and require as much
shelter as at any other time. Never
theless, the material prosperity of the
nation is inevitably checked, simply
because enterprise is deadened by fear
New projects are deferred, risks are
avoided and the total business conse-
quently diminished. Labor, quite as
much as capital, is injured by this
harmful excitement. for the main
springs of industry cannot be impaired
without affecting the whole social
fabric. In Great Britain national cleo
tons are only held when required by
political exigencies. No regular time
is appointed. A general election quick
ly follows dissolution of parliament;
so that while the crisis may be SHARP
it is always short and not dragged
along for weary months as in the Uni
ted States. Moreover, the long period
of apprehensive anticipation which is
usually worse than the actual crisis il
averted. The British system is really
more sensitive to public opinion thar
our own, the very promptness with
which it responds tending to moderate
political excitement. When the election
is over a period of several years usual
ly elapses before another change in
government intervenes. With US the
certainty that new election will take
place at a given time encourages too
early a start and unnecessarily pro-
longs the period of harmful suspense
and apprehension. The president of
the United States should have a term
of not less than six years, and no Sec
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.1
1t is also never too late to unlearn.
He who minds his own business is kept
too busy to do much else.
No man is so lowly that there isn't
somebody he can look down upon.
A man seldom realizes how fast he can
go till he gets on the down grade.
The poorer a man is, the more he talks
about what he would do If he were rich.
The man who thinks only of his stom-
ach does most of his thinking after it is
too late.
The pen may be mightfer than the
sword, but both are dangerous in ine1-
perienced hands,
If we could all know exactly what peo-
pie think of US, what an unhappy woI Id
this would be.
A woman's logic is about on a par with
her efforts to sharpen a pencil with a
pair of scissors.
The truth will stand forever" quoted
Simple Mug. but a lie generally gets a
seat"
NelI-.aThey say pie without cheese is
like kiss without a squeeze. Do you
believe it?'' Belle-ssWhy. really I
ATE pie without cheese
Many a mans fortune, in round num-
bers. IS 100000. 900. etc.
Mrs. Muggins-"Your little boy seems
rather small for his age Mrs. Bug
gins-"Yes, we have always, lived in
a West Philadelphia fiat"
A man never realizes how much fur
niture he owns till he comes home late
at night and tries to get to bed with.
out turning on the light.
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THE VANISHING rRooPs.-

Reveillei
From out the deep. gray nnists Of other
You come again-your tattered flags up
raise;
No roll of drums no scream of martial
No CLINT of arms. no hint of hate or
No kissing shell. no boom of hostile
But only peace. the peace your victory
won.
Form slowly now. and not as once you
When wars alarms beset you and for
The lagging stepi But let the drum
With less of vim than in the Long Ago;
For sturdy limbs that bore you through
Are tremuious with weight of years to-
day.
Eyes 'front.'
Those dimming- eyes that saw the bat
tie smokes
OF countless fieIds-that roved from red
Fair Oaks
To wars grim end, and saw the woe
The sacrifice of suffering and slain
In Freedoms cause! Nor .chide the
AS ali comes back through mem'ry's
magic spell.
Most sad of all that cen the brave must
diei
So many called and yet so few reply!
So many lost from noble ranks that
fought,
So many names of comrades long for
got!
And yet-who knows?-perhaps they
hover near
In spirit form and softly answer
"Herer'
Break ranksi
You go from US and vanish one by one.
Your faith kept true and all your serv-
ice donei
with comrades there of gray and blue
clad hosts,
You take our love and trust that ever
will
Gods blessing rest upon you'll Soldiers.
still
John D. Wells, in the Buffalo News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most folks troubles are purely
imaginary.
Any number of people have more
friends than they deserve.
x % %
One drawback to self-made men is
that they brag too much about it.
e
If it were not for the good influ-
ence of their wives more men would
be utter failures.
Most men know what is best for
them, but they fail too often to act
on their knowledge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
FROM OTHER PENS
THE POOR MANS -ccI1rcn

THE POOR MANS COLLEGE,
Some of the large Universities of
the East are showing decided rivalry
to be known as the Poor mans col
lege," and all are careful to quote ex-
act figures ON the number of r1en
VINO earn part or the whole of their
expenses while attending the Univer-
s1ty. Perhaps Kansas with eighty per
cent of the men students earning a
part or the whole of their TJniver-
city expenses according to statistics
gathered last year, might enter this
rivalry for the reputation of being
the poor mans college, 1t is a pleas
ant and significant fact that there is
now a decided rivalry among even the
biggest universities to be known al
THE poor mans college" And there
are plenty of facts and figures to sus--
tain such claims in regard to most OF
them. Harvard leads off with the stffs.zs
ment by the Harvard Bulletin that
from one-third to one-half of its I'M
oergraduates earn money either during
term time or in vacation, and thereby
pay wholly or in part fir their IIniver-
sity course. A recent statement as To
student employment in Harvard shows
that in round figures between $50 and
1IOO men are working their way
through college, and that instead of be-
ing caste by themselves on this ac-
count they are honored according to
their respective merits. Yale has more
tnan oUV students who are helping
themselves through it's courses. and
from princeton comes word that ten
acres or land have been made into
truck gardens where undergraduates
are earning money for themselves ana
also helping to reduce the cost of Uv-
ing of other students by raising vege-
TABLES for the college eating and
college commons. On the whole This
is the most satisfactory piece of in
formation that has recently come from,
our leading universities. 1t shows that
the democratic spirit is not dead but
is hourishing vigorously The fact that
hundreds of students of Columbia and
New York Universities and the other
colleges of New York annuaIIv nv T.,
whole or in part the expenses of their
coilege course is well known.-New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15
HVNOR or THE D<Y

Our Variety Theaters.-Musical Ind,-
SSi .u1ai- you seen HanseI and Cretsi7
Sportlng 1ndiv1dual-Yes; c1everest pair ~
monkeys I've ever seeni-London Opinion
Forestalled.-Mr. Knutt-Mv dear IT,,
9runk. It's pity you ever married me
m sorry for the poor. ciiidren-his. Nov;
TOE the lords sake let me come to bed
qutetly.-Tatlor. -
The Wretch.-"Pve spent all my money
my race horse is lame, my wife has eloped
wonder?" Your wife can come h maIp en-
Filegende Batter.
The plumber had married tbe bsrbar,.
daughter. mo tips when you shave me
hereafter, remember" he said. All right
quoth the barber, land no Charging IL in
the Dill when you walk between my house
and the shop any more" On this basis
they all lived happily ever after.-Chicago
Tribune.
shemI married you because pitied you.
He[Well, everybody else does now.-The
Club-Fellow.
Ex-Servant Ito former mistress)-so Won
won't give me character. with deep
scorn)' you-you ladyI Little Monty
You're not, are you, mother?-Puneh.
Tommy-what does the paper mean bv
calling Mr.: Sharp an by 10 business man?
Tommys Father-I presume It means he
is not exactly square.-Home Herald.
Let the Worst Come.-Hub CARRYING
HONEYWELL, I've had my life insured for
$4,000 Wife-Thank goodnessi Now !
shan't have to keep. cautioning you to be
careful whenever you go any pIace."-Ex.
Transient-Was the show last night the
real thing, as they advertised7 Uncle
Eben-Real thing nothing 1t was a fake
The boys exposed it, We got hold OF the
fellow who played the villain and after
riding him around town he finally con-
fessed that he wasn't no real villain after
all; just ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mag
azine.
''Old Skads lost every cent he had in the
world yesterday s'CSeef His heirs will
be furious" "Oh, I don't thsak So"
How'd he lose it?'' He died."-Hoaston
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15

J. viii Kelley, secretary of the COM
mercial club, hits an important nail
on the head when he insists that To-
peka cannot hope to develop into much
of a manufacturing center unless
there is a disposition to help the in
dustries already located here. The de-
velcpment of some Of them undoubt-
edly need direct financial assistance
but all of them can be assisted mater
tally If Topekans will generally take
the trouble to buy homemade goods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15

One Of the unusual features of the
Roosevelt campaign is that so many
of its leaders apparently have more
political prestige and strength with the
people in states other than their own.
Even Senator Dixon. the big chief of
the Colonef's campaign. is to be denied
the privilege Of going as a delegate
from his state to the Chicago conven-
ton. The Taft men are overwhelm7
ingly in control in Montana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15

Although a resolution paving the
way to amend the federal constitution
so. as to provide for the election of
United States senators by a direct vote
of the people has finally passed both
branches of congress and viii be
signed forthwith by the president, this
procedure will not be brought about
for a few years. 1t will take that long
for two-thirds of the legislatures to
ratify the proposal, even If that many
should be favorable to it, as they pro-
baby will be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-15

There seems to be general agree
ment nowadays among the public men
in shawnee county that all of the
county offices should be placed on a
ealaried basis And when Legislative
action finally brings this about, there
should be coincident legislation which
Will reduce many of the fees now de-
manded of the people for the trans
action of their business with the coun-
ty officers. This is particularly true of
the scale of fees in the probate court