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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
SATISFY YOURSELF.

In a. little article in the January
American Magazine William Johnston
says:
1T is not what people say about
you-it's what you are that counts
The one person in all this world whom
YOU should aim to satisfy is yourself.
You alone know yourself. Other peo-
pie know your outward appearance,
your actions, your deeds You, and
YOU alone, know your motives, your
ambitions, your thoughts.
Are you satisfied with yourself? 1t
is your own fault if you are not. Are
YOU satisfied that you are doing the
best you can in your work, that you
are making the most of your time
Are you confident that your. conduct
toward your family, your friends, your
neighbors, your employer, cannot be
improved?
aIook yourself straight in the face
this morning, in your minds looking
glass Ask yourself whether 1t is what
people say about you or what you are
that hurts. Analyze your own con-
duct in all matters.
PUT yourself in the other fellow s
place and try to see your actions
through his eyes. Imagine that you
are your employer instead of your
self Answer honestly whether if he
knew as much about you as you know
about yourself he would discharge you
or would raise your wages If you do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
SOME PROGRESS.

Improved child labor laws enacted by
eight states and closely related meas
ures passed in Kentucky, Massachu-
sets, and New Jersey, during the
twelve months ending September 80,
1912. are reviewed in the Annual Report
of owen r. Lovejoy, general secretary
of the National Child Labor committee,
inst published in the third number of
the Child Labor Bulletin
Mr.. Lovejoy reports Investigations
carried on during the year in eight in
dustries in ten states and the District
of Columbia, besides a preliminary
study of the administration of child
labor laws in twelve states. The time
given to investigation, reckoned in units
of one worker for one month, was
eighty-nine months. The National
Child Labor committee has a contrib
uting membership of 6.4S2 persons and
reports expenses for the year of $685.
7S1. 81
During the last year only fourteen
states held legislative sessions, and in
each of these, child labor legislation or
legislation of a similar sort was under
consideration. Thus, Maryland, Ari-
iona, and Minnesota have now mod
eIIe1a their child labor laws on the uni
form child labor law, drafted by the
national child labor committee and
unanimously endorsed and urged for
adoption in all states by the American
Bar Association at its last annual
meeting. Mississippi also adopted the
main provisions of the uniform law,
with the one serious defect that the age
limit for employment of boys is fixed
at - years instead of IA. Mississippi
is the only state having cotton manu-
facture as its chief industry in which
children under 16 years may not be en-
ployed more than eight hours a day.
Rhode Island and South Carolina
have prohibited the employment as
Is, respectively.
The new law in New York requires a
physical examination of all children
seeking employment certificates.
sachusetts and Kentucky have pro-
vided for better enforcement of exist
ing laws. Massachusetts, has also es-
tablished a board to determine the
minimum wage of women and minors in
certain industries, and commission to
investigate and recommend upon the
ACCESSIBILITY of state pension to de-
pendent widowed mothers of young
children.
Progress is noted in all but three of
the fourteen states holding legislative
sessions. Bills were defeated only in
Georgia and New Mexico. Louisiana
stands alone in moving backward.
There the hard fought Clinton bill was
passed, exempting children employed
on the stage from the operation of the
child labor law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News.1
His Satanic majesty invented polite,

His Satanic majesty invented politics.
Flattery is most frequently used OF
women and tombstones.
The average man thinks his brand of
politics is the only real one.
When you get the best of some men
you see them at their worst.
A married man is never at a loss to
know what to do with his money.
Those who are not disappointed in love
are often disappointed the most
The woman who sticks to her husband
like glue may help him to mend his ways.
A married s1ffragette is woman who
carries a night key and her husband
doesn't
Politics makes strange bedfellows and
the "also rams are left to sleep out in the
cold.
Most men have two dispositions-one
they exhibit in public and the other gets
its work in at home.
During the courtship a girl quotes
poetry to a man; after marrying him she
quotes what he used to say to her before
they faced the parson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
WINTER HEALTH HINTS.

Life insurance companies are excel
lent authorities on safeguards against
disease. They are able to employ
physicians of the highest rank and
greatest attachments. 1t is for their
direct interest to keep people well, lest
sickness may result in death and the
payment of claims to policyholders.
One of the eastern life insurance
companies sends out timely hints
about warding off colds and other COM
mon winter ills. 1t suggests the wis
dom of taking extra pains, at this time
of the year, to keep up the tone of the
body and fortify it against enemies
which cannot be avoided but may be
beaten back by the right kind of phys
icaI vigor.
One of the hints given by this in
surance company is Remember that
the place to wear a chest protector Is
on your feet" The common sense or
such advice is apparent to all who I'M
derstand how many ills spring from
wet feet, left without proper attention.
and from cold feet which are a sign
of the lack of good circulation and rea-
sonable vitality.
Another hint from the same source is
equally sound. "At the first signs of
a cold do not rush to patent remedies.
or whisky and quinine. but take
purge, a good hot footbath, and drink
freely of hot flaxseed tea, or of hot
water containing a few drops of tine
ture of camphor. Unless you feel bet
ter quickly do not wait too long be-
fore calling the DOCTOR
This is plain common sense in its es-
sentiaI features, whatever may be
thought of the flaxseed tea or the tine
ture of camphor The main thing is
to give nature a fair chance by keep
ing the body in the best possible con-
dition to fight it's own battles against
winter ills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A merry widow usually has a fat
bank roll.
Nor does the man who refuses to
take a chance often get much worth
while.
X
Any old kind of an inspector gen.
orally has an enlarged idea of his
Importance.
And the air would get along very
nicely without much of the music that
is tossed in it.
Regardless of the achievement of
some ball player it is nevertheless an
historical fact that the first home run
was made by the Prodigal Son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Detectives who found Belle Guinness
in Canadian village, should 1flsk
said village TO a fare-ye-weH Charne
Ross and Kate Bender are undoubted-
ly sequestereo (S3.6S word, that), IN
the same place.
When congress allowed a claim OF
$500 for a horse killed in the Battle OF
the Blue, the committee overlooked
something. No witnesses were produc-
ed to prove that the horse was really
dead.
The death of Will Carleton is sad
blow, not only to his thousands OF
friends. but to young poets Inc
lamented Will is among the last OF
the good old-fashioned poets who wore
long hair.
AS the name of the Council Bluffs
youth who is suing a Topeka business
man for automobile damages is Isaac
Feblowitz, we hold that the Sult
should have been brought for $5,O2S.ss
instead of 5000.
According to charges preferred by
the authorities, a Missouri gink has in
vented a new system of cutting down
the Christmas shopping list. They
claim that he used an ak on Mamma
and Grandma, thus reducing the list
by two.
J, Piefront Morgan, when brought
before the congressional investigating
committee, produced a complete al1bl-
He was charged with cornering all the
money, but proved that he controlled
only 500, 900, 900 of it. Currency records
show that there is at least 1921 more
than that in circulation.
The nice thing about being a mem
Der of an al1-star football team cho-
sen by experts, is that the team is
made up after the season closes, and
doesn't have to go into action to hold
the title.
The sweet potato, first boiled and
then split down the back and fried, is
our favorite fruit. Hence, the report
that oranges are being ripened by ar
tificial means, affects US about as
much as the report that jimpson weeds
were being added to smoking tobacco
would affect a lady school teacher.
The gang of buns who are hanging
around town waiting for a cold spell
so that the soup line will be opened,
should be advised that it is not neces-
sary to secure a dollar hunting license
before hunting a job.
Which reminds us; that an open
winter is the greatest hardship TO some
people. When it is cold, and the snow
is a yard deep, the philanthropists get
busy and feed the never-sweats. When
the weather is semi-tropic, they never
think OF it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
SAYS UNCLE CIV

1t took us a long time to get to it,
but we've finally awakened to the fact
the only Joke in the Chinese plan of
paying physicians to prevent disease
is the joke on those who can't see the
wisdom of the Celestial viewpoint. OF
course we have had our theories about
the wisdom of the prevention of evil
since the world began and there is a
saw concerning an ounce of proven
ton that is nearly as old as disease
itself But we have been content to
talk about preventive measures and
let it go at that. Lately, however,
we've begun to realize our situation
and the more light we get on the SUD-
ject the less we laugh at the CHINA
man.
The skill of the Oriental doctor may
not equal that of our own, but there s
no denying the logic of his situation.
It's a mighty poor mechanic VINO can
mend a machine only after it is brok-
en-, If he can't keep it in order ne
isn't wanted, So nowadays in the Oc-
cident, we are taking advantage of the
age-old Oriental view and developing
a class of doctors of health who are
rapidly taking the burden off the doc
tors of medicine. An ounce of Sani-
tation is worth a ton Of fever remedy
and the sanitary officer is the man of
the hour.
Similarly, the successful lawyer of
yesterday was the one WIN SOI yOo
out of trouble. Today, the big fees
go to the man who earns them-the
one who keeps you away from legal
entanglements. One reason that it is
so difficult to convict many of the So
called trusts is that either actually or
technically, they are innocent of the
specific charges of violating the anti
trust laws. The highest paid lawyers
in the world are those who keep these
great business interests on the safe
side This fact is not only often over
looked by the masses of the people,
but it is occasionally forgotten by the
reformer In many cases, what is
needed, if anything, is new statute,
rather than new prosecutions under
an old one that hasn't been violated
The trusts have caught up with the
Chinese notion of things.
Yesterday, the man who could pro-
duce something new was unrivalled
in his opportunities for wealth and
fame. Today he has an equal in the
man who knows how to stop waste
and conserve what the star perform
er of yesterday produced. Scientific
managemen t'' is the new slogan in
business and nine-tenths of scientific
management is the stoppage of leaks
in labor and material.
There's a big joke concerning the
Chinese physician. But the joke is not
on the Chinaman-it's on the Occiden-
tai world that is just beginning to
realize what it all means.-(Copy-
right, 1912, Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
HUAOR OF THE DRY

Father may have his faults, but Won
won't find wad of gum under the table
at the place where he generally sits.-CIn-
cinnau Enquirer.
Brown-So you spent Sunday with the
Suburbs. Ell? How far is their home from
the station? Towne-About two miles as
the dust flies.-Judge.
Cholly Bullseye-Did you ever dream of
me, Miss Ball? Miss Minnie Ball-Yes;
two nights running; and the third
ChoIly Bullseye-So delighted And the
third? Miss Minnie Ball. took an OPT
atei-Puck.
Really" began the collector, ct cannot
understand why man of your resources
will refuse to pay his honest debts.'
Then I'll tell you said the well-to-do
citizen confidential1y, eff I paid up Td
throw you and several others out of work
and 1 haven't the heart to do it."-Satire.
TWO Spendthrifts-''Ady dear girl, you
spend all your money getting your hand
read" "And you spend all yours, old bow
in getting your nose red."-Tatier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
THE ROAD TO FAIRYLAND.

THE ROAD TO FARMLAND.
Did you know-know even the road you
must go?'-
''oh. a certain way to fairyland no man
alive may knowI
But a dream called in the morning and
led us up and down
Past the market place and gardens, and
the white streets of the town.
All the folks were dancing-all the world
was gay
But darksome was the mountain road and
there we lost our way!'
'An worn you are with fasting and green
with weather stain.
And you'll never go a-seeking for fairy
land again?'
'Oh, yesI for there's a fairy dream
a-lurking IN the wind
And when that dream goes flying forth,
Wen not be left behindi
Observation-Disclosures over mountain,
vale and stream,
Bad luck upon the lazy looms who never
heed a dreamP
Margaret Sackville, in the Pail Mall
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
QUAKER fluctuations.
From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Discretion is the better part of Wallets
An obstinate man IS any man who
doesn't think as we do.
Some people never know right from
wrong till they get found out.
The fall of man dates to the time Adam
took a tumble to himself
You can save yourself a lot of trouble
by saving a little money.
Msny man complains about bad times
who is too lazy to wind his watch.
The pessimist's idea of good time is
to think about the good times he might
have had.
Some men get so used to being looked
up to that they carry their pedestals
around with them
Blobbs-''Don't you think it's a good
thing to marry for lover" Slobbs-''Ye5
but money naturally makes a girl more
lovable."
Wigg-"Oh, he's one of those fellows
who know it ALL" Wagg-"Don't be too
sure. He may know something, after all"
Dead men tell no tales" quoted the
sc Guy. - suppose that's why wi0-
ows often marry again. snickered the
Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

the thousand dollars. He said he
loved you enough to do it. and when a
man loves girl enough for that I'm
willing to lie to the limit to help him.
! promised to keep this to myself, but
he's worth the truth; so you have it."
the lawyer added
Ruth left swiftly. There was some
thing in her heart that brought tears
to her eyes. And a little after her
return to her room in the quaint cot
tage where she made her home a letter
was being written that she knew would
bring to John Russell the greatest joy
In his life.-(Copyright, 1912, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If Russia warred against Japan what
would the Mikado?
CAS- Oat Abar says: A set of false
teeth is an emblem of time)
Speaking about football, does the
fishing tackle well?
6et's shoot him at sunrise He's
the boob that put the hopping in shop
ping9
If water runs will the ink-stand?
CHold! She believes in the cause.
Leave that woman bep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Those government officials. who have
failed to serve a warrant on Eugene
V. Debs, should enlist the services Of
a speedy long-distance runner to help
them out. Mr.. Debs is still running
for the presidency. With the Socialists.
the campaign for political preferment
is continuous. There is never any let
up to it. An election day is merely a
mile-post on their journey they're
just as busy the day after presenting
their propaganda to the people as they
are the week before, or during the usual
campaigning periods when the other
parties are active.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

effectiveness of a pitcher. Games, that
the pitcher gets credit for winning to
the enhancement of his rating, are Of
ten won directly by other players. And
pitchers as frequently get the blame for
losing games that are tossed away by
errors on the part of their teammates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
FROM OTHER PENS
PRICES ON FARM sTITrF.

According to statement issued by
the agricultural department a few
days ago, agricultural products COM
manded prices in November ranging
somewhat lower than they did Octo-
Der Is of this year. Somebody will
say, probably, it was because of the
result of the election. For instance,
beef cattle sold at an average of $5.22
per hundred in the United States No
Vember Is, whereas it had been $3.50
on the 18th of the previous month.
But the prices of the previous month
were at top notch comparatively, be-
ing 81 higher than for November Is,
1911, and S8 cents higher than No
vember 15, 1910. In the same way
veal calves averaged S6.77 on Novem-
Der Is, as against $500 October is,
but still 67 cents higher than in No
vember of 1911 and 3S cents higher
than in November, 1910. Hogs fell
off 65 cents from October Is to No
Vember 10, but were 19 cents higher
than in November, 1911. However,
they were 5 cents lower than in No
Vember, 1910. In spite of the threat
of tariff reform in the result of the
election, unwashed wool advanced, be-
ing held at an average of s1.S6 in No
vember, which was a cent higher than
in October, 80 cents higher than in
November of 1911 and n cents high
er than in 1910. Fruits, with the ex-
ception of apples, ran a little lower in
November than in October, but con-
Siderably lower than in 1911 and 1912
apples were cents buShel higher
IT. November than in October, but 10
cents lower than in 1911 and 26 cents
lower than in 1910. Eggs were dearer
than either in October or the same
period of either of the two previous
years. Generally, however, there was
slight falling off in prices on farm
stuff between October Is and Novem-
Der Is, but prices ranged higher than
they did one and two years ago. From
which 1T is evident that the result of
the election made no appreciabIe Diff
ference in prices in that direction
Lincoln Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Some one among the faithful" in
Chicago has evidently not been provided
with a good soft public berth. The
aldermen there are planning to create
an official whose duty it shall be to
catch the stray cats in town. And
wouldn't a sincere man on such job
have a lively time of it!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

TFrom the New York Press.]
A girl may begin to flirt, but size never
ends.
F'rankness is about attractive as
stepping on folks toes.
A womans idea of senseless talk is
about sensible clothes
A man would use his great-grand-
mothers wedding lace to clean an old
pipe
A great trial to a woman about going
to a warm climate for the winter is il
she has handsome furs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

this conscientiously there are many
things you will do differently.
"Remernber this, too. Other peo-
pies opinion of you is based on your
own opinion of yourself. Are you self
respecting? Other people will re-
spect you. Are you truthful? The
world will believe you. Are you hon
est? Everyone will trust you.
But weigh yourself frequently
Weigh yourself carefully. Be certain
that your own opinion of yourself is
justified. Be satisfied with yourself"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Ban Johnson's plan to rearrange the
ratings of pitchers in accordance with
the earned runs made off them instead
OF on the basis of the games won while
they're in the box, seems to be a base
ball reform of merit. Such a rating
would establish Enthusiastically the real
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Sufficient have been the revelations
before the congressional committee,
investigating the alleged money COM
bine. to demonstrate the necessity of
legislation that will replace the I'm God
We Trust on Uncle Sans coins with
-. Pierpont Morgan & Co."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
TEACH VOTING

Minneapolis has up a plan of loan
ing lts voting machines to the public
schools between elections. So as TO
teach young men approaching the
voting age how to exercise the price
less privilege soon to come to them.
Ihats a splendid idea. Rather, it is
the germ of a splendid idea. 1t ought
to be carried much further. Young
men nearing the voting age and still
in school are rarities. Two-thirds of
the pupils are compelled by necessity
to drop out of school long before the
voting age is near. The schools ought
to begin as early as it is sensible to
begin, to teach their pupils civic con-
sciousness; to teach them about their
government, which they do now after
tashion but don't start soon enough;
and above all to teach them that when
they get to be 21 years old they will
be the vernment.-Duluth Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Just how Mr.. Wilson proposes to
hang on the Sibbet of public disgrace.
the individual who may produce = fl
nalcial panic, if the spirit should so
move him, is not quite clear. Any man,
who has money or power enough to
wreck temporarily the financial ma
chinery of the nation, wouldn't care a
rap for all the contumely that might
be heaped upon his head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

You can't get into our college. You aren't
qualified in the entrance requirements in
Sanskrit, Greek or Calculus. Prospective
Student-No, but 1 am very well grounded
in reading writing and arithmetic Col
Iese President-Great Scott, man. you
don't need college education! Why don't
you go into busin ess!-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Nor should somrambulism be the
popular sport that it is. An Illinois
man is its latest victim. While walk
ing in his sleep. he fell out of a five
story window to his death. Why not
pass some legislation prohibiting in
diligence in somnambulism Surely if
would be as sensible as some of the
prohibitory legislation now on the
statute books
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Senator Bristow's bill providing for
the election of postmasters to all offices
that pay more than $500 a year will
scarcely receive warm support from
any number of gentlemen who have
political pulls, or think they have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Although Mr.. Foraker was in the
United States senate at the time, he
furnishes the inside story of how the
now famous Archbold letters were
stolen from the offices of the Standard
Oil company, and sold to representa-
tives of w. r. Hearst, who has been
making them public from time to time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

Another vexed question to tax
the minds of some of the bright men in
the government service is as to what
is buffalo meat. The controversy is as
to whether it is beef or game. or
neither? But those who have tried to
eat IT would probably give an unani-
nous verdict that it is inclined to be
fnuph
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

That report from Belvidere, Kan, of
cattle rustlers working in that vicinity
is decidedly reminiscent OF days that
are long gone by.