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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27
SAYS UNCLE CAV

It takes two things to make a
chance-you and the circumstances
round about you. And it doesn't
make any difference about the circum-
stances if you're all right. If you
can't see a chance, look again. For
the world is full of chances for you
to make good, but if you don't see
them they don't exist for you. There
is no light on earth for a blind man.
You see the opportunities are just
like light. just as plentiful. Light
never comes into being until the rays
of the sun strike the retina of the
eye and the retina responds. If the
retina makes no response, the eye
doesn't see and there is no light.
The earth and the waters under the
earth are full of opportunity rays.
less the opportunity ray arOuSes a
response in that mental eye of yours
that was meant to perceive the main
chance.
The world is imperfect and, while
it is. there is opportunity holding up
pleading hands for recognition. and
holding them up to all men who can
see and understand. Until
The earth's last picture is painted
until we "lie down for an aeon or
two" to rest in the contemplation of
imperfectiOn made perfect. there is
a chance for you if you can but see it.
While there is a desert that does
not blossom as the rose, while there
is a field that holds possibilities of a
larger harvest while there is a mine
dump that holds still a little treas
ure too fine for our clumsy smelling
processes, while there is a road I'M
paved, while there are time and
space to be eliminated for the en-
hancement of human communication,
while there is one hungry or sick or I'M
happy in all the world, your opportun-
ity awaits the vision that shall bring
it into being.
You viii find it in slight things.
perhaps. Newton found his in the fall
of an apple, as sayeth the old third
reader, and Watts, by the same au
thority, found his chance in the labor
of steam in the tea kettle. More like
~ you will find yours as did he who
laid the first block of paving and
made a dry street of an elongated
sewer, or made the first labor saving
tool for the ease of tired hands. If
you be a drainman, be it known that
we have yet to perfect the art of dig
ging bitches; if you heave coal, there
is a better way; if you are a book
keeper, your employer and thousands
of other employers are waiting for
some one to come along who can sim
pity their office systems; if you be
master of men, the man has yet to
live who was master of such task.
The best picture has not yet been
painted, the best wall has not been
builded, the best pin has not been
made, the best government has not
been devised, the best lead pencil has
not been fashioned. Your daily task
holds a thousand opportunities if you
but have eyes. Oh We of little faith
Copyright, 1912, by W. E. Williams.)
Mr.. Cleverton-You saw some old ruins
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27
TRAIN KILLS KANSAN
Joseph Fyla Found Dead on Railroad
Crossing.

manager of the Caney Mill and Elevator
company was killed here by Santa
F'e passenger train. The body was found
on the track an hour after the train had
passed. It is believed Mr.. Fyla attempt
ed to board the train at the Missouri Pa
ciffc crossing, but slipped on the icy steps
and fell beneath the train
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

BY Topeka made goods. is war
CRY Of the members of the Commercial
club which should he needed by every
person in the city. Almost everything
desired or needed by any one is made
right here in Topeka II the OUTPUT
OF Topeka's industries can be enlarged
by that much will the city be made
To prnV-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Those Texas insurgents" who have
turned to Mr.. Taft as their presidential
candidate will probably be read out of
that wing of the Republican party
forthwith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Enthusiasm win run high with the
Democrats over the announced presi-
dental aspirations of colonel Roose-
welt II the event OF his getting the
Republican nomination. the Demo-
Gratis feel that he would be the easiest
Republican candidate to defeat. They
rightly believe that the American peo-
PIE are opposed to a third presiden-
tial term for any man. regardless of
its substance or its form.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Mr.. Bryan has seen the light all
right. He believes that when a party
has only one man in 1t fit to be presi-
dent II would be better to bury the
party and start all over again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

No one on this side of the Atlantic
would be interested in any way at the
exorbitant price that Mr. J. Pierpont
Morgan has paid for some Coptic man
uscripts of little Intrinsic value we're
il not for the fact that the $4,000 he
SO paid was good American money
which viii now circulate around Eu-
rope
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Colonel Roosevelt's Willingness to
accept the Republican presidential
nomination places the onus of deliv-
ering the goods on the seven Republi-
can governors who appear to be re-
sponsible for the decision he has
reached in the premises. VIII they
be able to do 50? Kansas once voted
Tor Bryan but that did not make him
president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Between now and the Republican
national convention at Chicago. there
viii he plenty of time to expose the
motives of those who have forced
Colonel Roosevelt into the race. And
when he learns them. perhaps, he viii
not be so enthusiastic over the pro
1estations Of his ..friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Bditor Allen of the Wichita Beacon
IS quite right in insisting that men
should play their part in the support
and development Of the church That
they have left this work to women in
times past is not to their credit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Don't let this snow discourage You.
Most of baseball teams have begun
the. spring practice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

All being fair in war. it is probably
pardonable for Italy to have her war
ships lombard the defense1ess seaport
towns OF Turkey. But the rest of the
world IS not appIauding such acts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Presumably Illinois has a law pro-
viding proper punishment for habitual
criminals Pat Grove. who has been
locked up again in Chicago. ought to
make a fine subject for its application.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Cement golf balls are asking for
recognition. But won't their effect be
even more deadly than is those of the
prevailing gutta percha variety when
one OF them happens to land on the
Uranium Of the innocent nasserh1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Mayor Billiard thinks that one of
ToDeka's crying needs is a banquet
han that will comfortably seat at least
two thousand people. Does Mayor Bill
lard know of any city in the whole
country that has such a bannuet hau2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Washington, Feb. 27.-By "a to 80
the senate voted down today a motion
to table the Poindexter resolution for
investigation of the Lawrence strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

Mr.. Cleverton-You saw some old ruins
in England this summer, I suppose2 Miss
StruckeJt Rich-Yes. and one of them
wanted to marry Tne@Princeton Tiger
rs your chauffeur expert2 Yes.
indeed" replied Mr.. sChuggins. He can
explain in most interesting way exactly
why the isn't running most of the
time. w ashington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

velt's latest picture printed in the
State Journal last evening and mails
it to this office with two new captions:
"God Save the King, Shall We Do
IT,"
LChapter XCV Tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

to break the third term precedent by
nominating him: thus he was defeat
ed, and Garfield named and later
elected. just as Roosevelt is pretty
sure to be defeated in June next, and
for the same reason, and Taft named
and later elected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

A woman will take long chance to
get in front of gang of men who are
fighting, upon the chance that the
newspapers will refer to her as a
modern Joan of Arc" But if all the
Joan of Arcs have to emulate the origi-
nal by wearing boiler-plate trousers
there would be fewer of the modern
kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

We hereby propose three cheers and
q near-silver loving cup for the Han
over Kan groom who resented a
charivari with his six-shooter. The
charivari is almost as silly as the way
it is spelled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

In other words, popular clamor''
is something like the noise made by
the indignant rabble" behind the
scenery in a theatrical mob scene. 1t
is composed of a few leather-lunged
su pernumeraries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27

An epidemic of dueling is reported
n Paris, but no international alarm
should be entertained: an epidemic of
lueling in Paris is about as depopulat-
ng as an epidemic of dog fleas in
Mud Town.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17
Pensacola Should Begin Work Now
For Mardi Gras Celebration.

Here it is past the middle of July and thing has
been done make ready for the 1913 Mard Gas ceebra
ton.
For the first time since Pensacola began to celebrate
Mardi Gras the Carnival Association has cash balance
in the treasury and all of its debts paid.
The situation in that respect therefore is not only bet
ter than has been the past but it, on the other
hand there has been good for holding the Mard
ras celebration that obtains in greater force today
than it ever has before.
In The Journals Judgment, the Mardi Gras celebra-
tons of the past have only advertised Pensacola
tensve but they have brought great deal of money into
the city otherwise have come here and they
have kept great deal of money at home that
would without the celebration inevitably have gone
where else.
Pensaco1as annual Mard Gras celebration has served
fu purpose in the future 1t ought therefore be made
gin immediately
It has been months since we had one of
those public feeds at which much energy and enthu
siasm usually generated, and believe the time is ripe
for
The Journal suggests therefore that the easiest and
cheapest way of reaching all of the old Carnival Assoca
ton supporters free luncheon be arranged for II 80
day week the plates be paid for of the
money hand and the last Carnival contributors be
invited and exchange ideas about the desraby
Iof the celebration next year.
If have celebration year, this will be
la good way get the subscribers together. If
going to have one might we'll spend the money for
1.-The necessities of life What say you enerprising Pen
sacolan?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17
SCHOOLS AND EGGS.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY

Gainesville. Florida.
Next Session Opens September 18th, 1912
The University of Florida offers excel
lent opportunity for the liberal and pro
fessional education of Florida young men
at the actual cost Of living. High moral
tone. Scholarly faculty Beautiful build
tngs. Attractive Campus. Nearly 300
per cent increase in attendance during
the past three years. Leader in Ath-
letics and other forms Of student acti@i-
ties. Send for Catalogue
A. A. MURPHREE, Pres.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17
SAYS WILSON
VERY Strong
ROSS ROGERS OF PENSACOLA
FINDS CONDITIONS IN PENN
SYLVANIA VERY ENCOURAGING
THOUSANDS OF REPUBLIC
ANS WILL SUPPORT DEMO-
CRATIC NOMINEE.

Mr.. Ross Rogers. of the Pensacola
Classical School, whose home is in
uarrisburgh. Pa. attended the con
ve.ntion in Baltimore and writes inter
esttngly of the impressions he re
ccived there.
He says the thing that impressed
him most was the total absence of the
pteam roller" and the absolute free
dom of speech which prevailed through
out the convention. He thinks thai
the presence Of public opinion gave
Wilson his steady increase in dele
gates.
OF Mr. Bryan's part he says: Mr.
Bryan was the dominant factor. How
anyone can hold anything against him
as far as his conduct this year is con
cerned is 4 mystery to me-"
Mr.. Rogers also remarks that Cone
johnson of Texas, was very much in
evidence and that Texas and Penn
sylvania both did noble work for VIII
son.
Mr.. Rogers has been at his homo
since the convention. There and every
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17

one needs to be not only a millionaire,
but a multimillionaire. And there are
lots of such houses in American cities
and many even finer.
A generation ago there was probably
not a dwelling house in all the United
States, with the possible exception OF
that of A. T. Stewart, which cost halt
a million or anything like 1t.
So common have great fortunes be
come and so inconspicuous are million
aires today that the names of the pur-
chasers of these two great mansions
were not even heard of by the genera
public before they appeared in this
connection.
In spite of the proverb which as
sures us that fools build houses and
wise men live in them" 1t seems that
a man who is able to pay half mil
lion for a house would prefer to builc
to. his own taste rather than buy E
ready made edifice.
But taste does not necessarily &C
company money.
If it did. there would be far fewer
extravagantly fine houses and many
more tasteful. comfortable homes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17


According to the speakers, who's the
greatest man on earth?
The candidate.
Who is our foremost citizen, man of
sterling worth?
The candidate.
Who fought and bled to save our land
with old George Washington?
Who tried to save the country's cause
that day down at Bull Run?
EFht. licked the Spaniards handily and
called It only fun?
The candidate.
Who freed US from the tyrant yoke
and sent the British back?
The candidate.
Who started this great nation on the
free and easy track?
The candidate.
VINO fought the poor mans battles and
has succored the oppressed?
Who with his mighty brain has brought
relief to the distressed?
Who's done lot more for US than he
has eer confessed?
The candidate.
Who grappled with the mighty trusts
and put them all to rout?
The candidate.
Who pounded graft upon the head
when it has been about?
The candidate.
When all his speakers have got through
and said all that they could,
He may not be elected to the job, but
if he should
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17
VOX POPULI.
MR.. THORNTON DEFENDS
FLETCHER AND LOR4MER

Editor Pensacola Journal.
Referring to an editorial in your
paper of Saturday last, condemning
Senator Fletcher for his stand in the
Lorimer case, I think you are wrong
and believe you will see it If you will
look into the facts for yourself. 1 feel
that instead of criticising him, We
should be proud of the fact that he
has the faith that right is might, and
in that faith has dared to do his duty
as he understood it," We should be
proud of him because he was big
enough to get up in the senate, with
the full knowledge that his attitude
was "a glazing exception among his
party comrades" and possibly. a dis
tinct disappointment to (probably
majority of the people he represents"
and not only vote in accordance with
the evidence as he found it, but say a
word~4n behalf of the man whom lie
thought was being wronged.
You saw: We hang people in
Florida on circumstantial evidence
and innocent though Mr.. Lorimer may
be. Senator Fletcher and his associates
will never convince the average voter
that any set of men were fools enough
to spend thousands of dollars to secure
Lorimers election without his knowl
edge and consent.
It can be said with equal justice
that with the hordes of detectives and
many thousands of dollars used in the
prosecuting of Lorimer by the Harves-
ter-Tribune crowd (Which stands in
the West like Standard Oil in the East
it would have been impossible not to
have developed this fact if 1t had been
a fact. | don't think the first scin-
tilIa of evidence was ever produced
connecting Lorimer personally with
any bribery or any other dirty work III
the procurement Of his election. My
knowledge Of the situation comes from
nv having been in Chicago for several
months last winter, during which time
the Lorimer trial was on. When / went
there my opinion of the case, gained
from reading our Southern papers. was
that Lorimer was a low, common po-
litiCal trickster. who had bought his
seat and should be fred out of the
senate. but after being in Chicago a
few weeks I changed my opinion, find
ing from conversation with men high
in business and social circles, that he
came much nearer being a paragon IF
reCtitude than a horned devil. And
didn't have the pleasure of meeting
him, or as far as l know any of his
PERSONAL friends Even his enemies
CT 1cede that his dime site life IS pure.
that in business ne is as straight as "A
string. and in politics fair and square.
But he had incurred the enmity of the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17
Half Million
Dollar Houses.

A distinguished English visitor has
been saying that IF you are going to
live in an American city it is we'll to
take the precautlon to be a million
aire."
It Is not a bad idea.
Everybody who can put it into effect
would be wise to do so.
The cost of living has gone up So
per cent in 10 years.
OF course. no sane being could spend
a million dollars on bare living, even
at the increased prices. but the mere
living is only the beginning of up-to-
date expenses.
Two adjoining residences in New
York have just been sold for more
than a million.
To occupy a half million dollar house
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17

Harvester Tribune crowd, as l under
stand it, in his successful fight in the
Illinois legislature to prevent the pass
age of bill permitting them to close
up a branch of the river in Chicago
for their personal gain, and they were
willing to spend any amount of money
to break his back.
While we are having so much to say
of late of Predatory Wealth." and
its control Of legislation and the jul
dietary, don't let us lose sight of what
to my mind is possibly a greater men
ace to our safety, and that is It's ability
through the press to mould public
opinion TO suit it's ends, as l think It
is done in the Lorimer case.
I remember once in particular read =
ing an account in your paper of the
proceedings of a certain days investi-
cation. to which l had listened a few
days previously and laughing at the
biased, garbled manner in which the
story had been sent to you, and re-
marking to a friend to whom / was
talking that just such reports was the
reason for my thinking that Lorimer
was so black.
The people did not get the facts
Senator Fletcher did He was one OF
the jury charged with Wading through
in accordance WithS the facts as he
found them.
He did It, and I raise my humble
voice in praise of the man that is big
enough to do right for rights sake
knowing full we'll the stand he took
was unpopular, would be a "disap-
pointment to the people he represents
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17

That all political parties have their
troubles is shown by the experience
OF the Socialist administration in
Lorain. o. Lorain began the year
1912 with the first Socialist admins
tration in the city's history; today. by
reason Of troubles within the party.
there is not Socialist in the Lorain
city hall. Mayor Pape started the
trouble by dismissing a Socialist di-
rector of public service, George A.
Storey, and appointing a Republican
in his place without consulting the
party's advisory board. The mayor
was then expelled by the party The
other Socialist city officials thereup
on either resigned from office or left
the party.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17

About primary times the slot ma
chimes were called in for some reason
which seems to no longer exist a they
are coming back into operation. but of
course the officers haven't seen them
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17
WEDNESDAY, JULY II, 1912.
Create Interest in
Water Sports.

Contests at Bayview Park on July
Fourth were enough to convince the
spectators that swimming and diving
contests in this section of the South
should be encouraged. The regatta
held two d'ys later created enough
interest to convince everyone that Wa
ter sports meet with the approval of
the public
West Florida with her rivers, lakes.
creeks, bays. hayous and sounds has
Teen neCiecting FOR years something
which would not only make our people
healthier and happier. but would at
tract the attention of America to this
section.
We refer to semi professional swim
InIng contests.
Even in the winter months swim
ming races in West Florida could be
conducted without the contestants
feeling any i'll effects from the water,
and were the different towns and com
munities to organize swimming clubs
and enter their best teams in a West
Florida contest it would promote an
era Of good fellowship among the en-
tire people such as could be done in no
other way
Places which have undesirable wa
tiers compared with those of West
Florida have these swimming contests,
but there is so much here that we fail
to appreciate it as We should.
/ Every town in West Florida cannot
have frst-class baseball like larger
cities have, nor can the inland cities
. have motor boat races, but the swim
( ming clubs could be organized in every
community in West Florida for within
a few miles Of every town there is a
river, lake, bay or some body Of water
in which the swimmers could train fol
the contests.
the Journal would like to have com.
qetitive swimming races between the
West Florida towns. When one tries
t. excel its neighboring town in g
swimming contest it will have the
same desire to excel in other things
all Of which is good for the whole
people. The Journal has no plan tc
offer as a means for creating Interest
in water sports, but there are probably
those who are willing to take the
initiative in the matter.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17

From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.
Hi Johnson went trout fishing the
other day and came home with the
champion story Of the season. He
caught a nice rainbow trout that
weighed 8 pound and a half just as
it came from the water. When he
cleaned the fish he found one inside
that weighed three pounds
Ed Jones has hired out to F. Gustin
to pull stumps on the latter's west
eighty. Ed is quite expert at this
business, as he used to be a dentist
before he took up the science of agri-
culture.
Plans and specifications for nifty
summer hat come from Hoppertown
Il is claimed that Mrs. Bowser APP
peared at church last Sunday in a hat
which she had manufactured from the
following ingredients: Two handles
out of n bushel basket, some wire from
a broom handle. part of an old bird
| cage and five yards Of mosquito net
| ting for trimming. The hat created
| quite a sensation and looked as though
| ii might have cost 1885.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17

Getting collect" telegram congratu-
lating you upon your birthday ami
Versary.
Going down the back street with a
ffshpoIe on a Sunday morning and
meeting the minister on his way to
church.
Buying a nifty hand-me- down spring
suit and finding that your hired man
has got one just like it.
Getting a very fiattering letter from
& publisher with a postscript to the
effect that he cannot use your story.
Moving to get away from a neigh
bCr's pnOnograph and landing next
door to man who practices on a slide
trombone.
Planting what you suppose are
radish seeds zSA ESiSjRS 6RA crop Of
9OnfiOR ers.