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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD.

Another mesalliance, as the snOb-
bish society papers called it and as all
the snobs and snobbesses of the Four
Hundred were acid in saying, has
come to the usual ending. And that
climax is happy and inspiriting.
one of the best families in New
port is that headed by Mrs. Amos
Tuck French. 1t may be that she and
the deceased French, himself, came of
good old blood 1t is quite as prob
able, seeing the genesis of many of
these Newport families, that they were
only a generation or so from the COM
mon herd. That doesn't matter. The
Trenches arrived sometime or
somehow.
Naturally, they felt themselves a cut
above the rest of the world and, so
when their daughter, Julia Estelle
French, ran away and married Happy
jack Geraghty, who had been the
Trenches chauffeur, the old tactics
of the cheap melodrama were used.
The daughter was solemnly disinher-
tied. the doors of "our best society"
were barred against her, and even
those whom she had thought genuine
friends proved false.
All she had, then, was her husband
and his love. This and her own brave
heart They prove enough. Geraghty,
against whom nothing was said except
that his position in life was humble,
went into business with his father, e
Newport liveryman. He was sober,
industrious, popular. He earned a fair
amount of money and saved a good
share of it, thanks to his wife, the for
mer society girl, who was a capital
little housekeeper and sang like a lark
in her happiness.
The world, which always loves a
lover, applauded this fond pair, but
the heart of the mother was still hard.
1t softened the other day, however,
when Mrs. Geraghty went to the hos
pital. and now that the baby has come
and is fine, bouncing boy. there has
been a family reconciliation. Little
fingers took grandma's hand and put
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
JAYHAWKER JOTS

AS the Herington sun says: Almost
every man is ashamed of his full
name.
A delicate hint to delinquent sub
scribers from the Harrington Times: Ii
the Times feels damp to you maybe
there's some dew" on it.
Half a ,af may be better than no
bread, says the Marysville Advocate
Democrat, but a full days loaf Is re-
sponsible for many man going
hungry.
This is the season, points out the
Sabetha Herald, when army officers
unhappily discover that daily gallops
in mahogany chair unfit one Tor ~
mile hikes in a pigskin saddle.
Hints "for the men," from the Flor
ence Bulletin: 1t has come time to
take off the screens. Also, it is con-
sidered proper to display your key
ring minus the cork-puller now.
Bert walker of the Osborne Farmer
young girl who marries an old man
for his money is after all not a much
bigger fool than the girl who marries
young reprobate to reform him.
Related by the Soldier Clipper: A
certain citizen remarked that he hated
to see the day train taken off. A by
stander asked if he used it much, and
he replied: mo, but when you are
working in the field it is a good thing
to quit by"
is high is because we do not make any
effort to cheaper it, says the South
Kansas Tribune. There are mighty
few farm families in Kansas that
could not do their own butchering and
have an abundance of meat at farm
cost. If family cannot do this, then
two or more can do so. A beef club
can be organized to run the year
round, and pork curing does not need
any clubs.
My friend, in this world it's the
smile that scores oftenest and not the
scowl, muses. the Village Deacon in the
Osborne Farmer. The person whose
face is never lighted by a smile and
whose voice is never heard in laughter
is a pretty good man to pass up. The
man who smiles on cloudy days as well
as bright ones is the man who gets
the most out of life. There is an old
saying that the mill will never grind
with the water that is past, and what
can't be cured must be endured. Mis-
business, or a trusted friend turned
traitor-but smile and put away your
frOwns and lamentations and go to bat
again. Your turn is bound to come.
Smile, and your friends will join you.
Scowl and they will leave you alone.
smile at all things. I wouldn't advise
you to do it at a funeral, nor do I
think it the proper thing to do when
some fellow has hauled off and slug
ged you in the eye. On such occa-
Sions you must use your own Judg-
ment What mean is that you should
try to smile at the proper time and
er words, don't be a crouch. The
smiler, you will find, is the fellow who
generally holds the winning hand in
the game of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Bless those that envy you-they of
all men most thoroughly acknowledge
your superiority. Envy is the shadow
of superiority and the brighter fame
shines upon merit the more in evil
dence is this jealous counterfeit of ex-
cellence.
This side of millennium there is
no escape from envy. Moreover, it
is not without it's service to the OBJ
ject of its displeasure. Most of us
do better for an occasional prick from
the spur of spite. He that hates us
for jealousy of our merits only drives
us on to greater achievements. They
who have in them the sturdy elements
of success are not discouraged, but
rather cheered and inspired by en-
vious testimonials to their worth.
In these days, when every success
full man is. more or less of an indus
trial and social tactician, envy can be
coined into power and even into dol
lars. He that denounces you from the
street corner bears public witness to
your strength. A hundred friends
may shout your praises, only to find
themselves discredited for an interest
ed claque. But let one enemy pro-
claim YOUR strength, and bitterly as
sail you for an OppreSsor, and pres
emily the world and his wife are cred
iting you with power beyond your
dreams. 1t is a very stupid man who
cannot at once assume that power
and presently turn it into money, or
whatsoever he desires.
1t is an excellent rule to speak i'll
of them that envy you only to provoke
them to renewed attacks.-(Copy-
right, 1912, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

| selves left. He could feel her breath on
his face, her heart throbbing heavily
against him. All the little shams and
suoterfuges and evasions of convention
anty slipped from them. He held the
girl he loved in his arms, and death was
a trlne, a passing incident of fate that
| had served to bring them together.
JACK, sweetheart he whispered.
| Are you afraid?''
One arm found its way around his
neck and frightened. She did not an
swer. And without warning the lights
flashed up.
"Nobdy noticed Rand said, COM
1ortaoIy, as the train gradually gath
cred up speed. He still held one hand
crushed in his, and Jacqueline did not
meet his eyes. Even the landscape
down in the subway may hold features
OF interest at times. Jack, you're
mine-know it?"
You might ask me first
Don't you know you are?' He
leaned forward and compelled her to
LOOK at him. Don't II. Wen go to see
ray and Dick tonight, and ask them
the pest way to elope."
Rand! Not that way
And oddly enough, Rand used Fay's
own argument.
Why not? Haven't I waited over a
Year Llre's too short. Can you re-
MEMBER that minute back there in the
dark, and say have no right? IF YOU
care to, I'll kiss you again now with
the lights up"
Jecqueline laughed under her breath,
eyes. AIS
Wait until We get to Fay's. Rand"
sne sald--(CCpyright 1912, by McClure's
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
Mark Twain and Queen Victoria

1t was one day in 1887 that elem
ems received evidence that his reputa-
| tion as a successful author and pub-
| l1sher-a man of wealth and revenues
had peQetrated even the dimness nj
the British tax office. A fornida bIe
envelope came, inclosing a letter from,
his London publishers and a very large
printed document, all about the in
come tax which the queens officers
mad levied upon his English ROYALTIES
as the result of a report that he had
taken Buckenham Hall Norwich for
a year, and was to become an English
terested him. To Chatto & Windus
his English publishers, he wrote:
VIII explain that all that about
Buckenham Hall was an English
newspapers mistake. I was not in
England, and If had been I Wouldn't
have been at Buckenham Hall any
way, but Buckingham Palace, or I
would nave endeavored to have found
out the reason why.
But We won't resist. Well pay as
II L were really a resident. The coun-
try that allows me copyright has a
right to tax me-"
Reflecting on the matter, Clemens
decided to make literature of It. He
conceived the notion of writing an
open letter to the queen in the char
acter of a rambling, garruIous. bnt
wen disposed countryman, whose idea
was that her majesty conducted ali
the business of the empire herself He
began:
"Madam-You will remember that
last May Mr.. Edward Bright, the clerk
of the inland revenue office, wrote
me about tax which he said
was due from me to the gov
eminent on books of mine pub
lished in London-tl1at is to say, an
income tax on the royalties. do not
know Mr.. Bright, and 1t is embarrass-
ing to me to correspond with strang-
ers. for I was raised in the country
and have always lived there, the early
part in Marion county, Missouri. be-
fore the war; and this part in Hart
ford county, Connecticut, near Bloom
field and about eight miles this side
of Pennington, though some call it
nine, which 1t is impossible to be. for
I have walked IT many and many a
time in cOnsid erably under three
hours, and General Hawley says he
which is not likely; so it has seemed
best that l write your majesty"
The letter proceeded to explain that
he has never met her majesty person
ally, but that he once met her son,
the Prince OF Wales, in Oxford street
himself was on the top of an omnibus
He thought the prince would probably
remember him on account of a gray
coat with flap pockets which he wore,
he being the only person on the ON
nibus who had on that kind of a coat
at remember him." he said, ''as
easily as would a comet"
The letter, or petition" as # was
called, was published in Harper's
Magazine and widely copied. It
reached the queen herself in due time.
and the Prince of Wales, who never
forgot it's humor.-Albert Bigelow
Paine. in Harper's Magazine for Oc-
tober.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

Does a woman enjoy kin visiting,
or is it economy?
Our trouble with scenery is that 1t
doesn't amount to much for agrtcul-
tural purposes.
Aside from carrying around room
size muff, Daughter is apt to object to
heavy work.
Generally speaking, you are more to
blame for your troubles than the adj
ministration is.
Running is a less effective means
of escape than is afforded by the tire
less technicality.
There usually are two sides to a di-
vorce case, although only one Of them
may be aired in court.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned baby which could have a tea
cup put over its head?
A refrigerator is a great institution
for cold storage purposes, but it is a
poor source of inspiration.
Imagination is what enables a girl
to read the best sellers and believe
she has a Literary Temperament
Approached also the season when
a poor man tries to convince himself
that he likes chicken as well as tur-
key.
Foreign nobility. one grabs from
the gossip of divorce courts, is often
as unsatisfactory as our own noble
red man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
from OTHER PENS
SHORTEN THE CAMPAIGNS.

SHORTEN THE CAMPAIGNS.
One effect of the general adoption of
the spring primary in this presidential
year has become manifest in the te-
diousness, not to say listIessness, Of
the electoral campaign. The observa-
ton, of course, does not apply to the
main actors, though even the ener-
getic Roosevelt did not exhibit quite
as much strenuousness after the NOM
mating convention as before. But ii
has been remarked that audiences
were not carried away with anything
like the same enthusiasm during the
late summer and early fall as they had
been in the three or four months pre-
ceding the nomination. The explana-
ton is easy. 1t is impossible to keep
a mass of 9O.0OO,OO0 people keyed up
TO the last notch for an entire year.
The inevitable reaction" must set in
sooner or later, and it will set In the
sooner when the people realize that
the four months between the nominal
lions and the election constitute a
rather long time to be spent in a po-
litical frenzy to the neglect of their
private business. Probably it will be-
come necessary to make our political
campaigning-even our presidential
cam aigns-shorter. Why not? The
people would be as well prepared to
vote six weeks as six months after the
primaries Philadelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago N

tFrom the Chicago News.1
Once a fisherman, not always liar.
The oldest colleges still retain their
faculties.
Lots of poor men are the architects of
other mems riches.
The summer girl has resigned in favor
of the cuddlesome girl.
Query: Is a bride self-possessed after
her father gives her away.
Nothing worries a nagging wife so much
as a husband who won't get mad.
You can always get a lot for your
money if you patronize a real estate
dealer.
People will encourage your fads as long
as you are willing to Squander your
money on them.
Many a boy has acquired some very
good habits by not following in the foot
steps Of his father.
AS a girl grows older she becomes wiser
and quits wearing so many pins in the
vicinity of her waist line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

When some people do their best
they don't do much.
n 4
There is no help for the man who
fails to get wiser as he grows older
And the smile with which man
greets adversely is of the sickly va
riety.
Patting man on the back too
much is a good way to give him an
enlarged head.
What's become of the old-faSh-
toned party who used to pour coffee
and tea from his cup to the saucer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
BY THE WY
By HARVEY PARsONA

Sons of Rest, in regular session.
passed the following resolution: RE-
SOLVED: that this club heartily en-
| dorses the words of the visiting teacher
who advocated teaching the woman of
the house to tend the furnace.
The styles for next years women s
garments will include a vest with each
suit. As the ''mannish'' fad started with
mann1sh' hats, and seems to be pro-
crossing downward, it behooves mere
man to hide his pants.
There are no sore spots on Hutchin-
son. Both the winning and defeated
Candidates Joined in celebrating the
fact that the election was over. 1t APP
pears that Hutchinson agrees with this
department in our contention that cleo
lions should be held just before Thanks
giving, so that everyone could get to-
gether on the celebration.
Famous ante-mortem statements:
we will slug 'em through the ropes"
IT. r. of yesterday.
If the Colonel is defeated, we will do
Bldg.'' B. l. T.. Chi. Trib.
At late hour this afternoon, no bull
moose opponent had been observed out
side the ropes, and Bert Taylor's justly
celebrated colyum appeared as usual
Moral: The post mortem beats the ante
mortem as reliable news source.
We had labored under the belief that
the really busy person was the one who,
each night at 10 or Whereabouts, carried
the "coal-dust twins out to the barn
and threw them in. But we have seen
woman with yearling twins and full
outfit of hand baggage, running to
catch street car.
According to fashion magazines,
skirts will be fuller next season. The
present skirts are full enough. What
they need is emptier skirts, if they
want to jump mud puddles or hop street
cars.
An "uxorcide" is really nothing but a
wife-killer, but it gives him in air of
distinction when put in print, and it is
almost an inducement to kill perfectly
good wife to gain such a high-sound-
ing title.
A woman who left her kids at the
local provident association, specified
that they should not be beat or wash
ed" OF two evils she chose neither.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
KANSAS COMMEKT
THE LURE OF THE NOVEL.

The LURE OF THE NOVEL.
Long and laboriously have the
moral influences of this country
wrestled with the boys who, with
minds fired by ''yellow-back'' litera-
ture, have run away from happy but
commonplace existence to fight In
dams or encounter other heart-thrill-
ing adventures. Such boys have been
for generations a fruitful source of
anxiety and romance. They have
given distinctive tone to American
civilization. They have contributed
bravery and Drawn to the mighty
termination to dare and to do could
enable any race to conquer a CONT
nent in century The pioneer, who
took his family and his all far be-
yond the pale of peaceful civilization,
and with his rifle ever in his hand
threaded trails where resounded the
war whoop of the savage, and turned
the bowling wilderness into garden
plots, may never have read yellow
backs, but he nevertheless had with
in the same spirit of adventure that
they inculcate. BY just such spirit as
this the damp swamp and the dark
forest have been turned into fields of
grain and the tepees of the Indians
have given place to the towering
buildings of mighty cities. And now,
at this late date, the Indians have
turned the tables upon us. Two In
dian boys at the Carlisle school, their
minds fired by society novels, have
run away to New York to seek adven-
lures in drawing rooms. Unfortun-
ately they have been apprehended
and sent back to school. This is all
the more pity because New York
drawing room manners and morals
If reports be true, might have been
greatly improved by the young In
dams. The whites have taken from
the Indians the woods and prairies,
the plains and the hills. Surely in
the wise plan of nature there is some
place left into which Poor Lo might
fit. And anyone who carefully can
vases the whole situation is apt to
conclude, as did the two Indian boys,
that the place to which the Indian is
best fitted today is in the New York
drawing room.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
DAFFYDuS
By U. NoALL-

If Lincoln freed the slaves what
did General Grant?
(Yo no, he no, and a bottle of pop.)
If the fastest motor boat runs
about sixty miles an hour, what does
an automobile runabout?
professor, a little shivery music,
please The heroine is soon to die.)
What part of the political game
does the platform?
(And as Dat Abar says: You can
never judge mans brain by the
length of his beard-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
HuMoR or THE DHY

Daughter-Mother, why do people think
business will be better after the election !?
Mother-Because then men will have
more time to give to it--Judge.
you don't know what a biped IL. WHY
your fathers one. Pupil-No, he amt
neither. He's a Bull Mooser.-Baltimore
American.
Mrs. Flynn-They do be after sayin' thot
old man Kelly has got locomothor ataxy.
Mr.. F1ynn-Well, he's got the money to
run wan av thin If he wants ter. but fer
my par-rt I'd rayther have a good horse
amy day.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

Halleck. of Kentucky, that the time
is coming in this country when no one
will have to work more than six hours
a day. But there is likely to be just
as much perplexity among the plain
people as to how they shall put into
effect his further suggestion that an
other six hours a day be devoted to
soul growth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
THE HERITAGE.

nave had dream in my darkness, a
vision OF want and sin;
Inc morning could not dispeI tit waited
the light within
But when through my soul that splendor,
Weued up to show the way,
Inc m1sts of error vanished, the night
was as TIE day.
L knew mine ancient lordship of air and
sea and land
AND remember when earth was builded,
how l stood at Gods right hand.
Grace MacGowan Cooke in November
Nautilus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

TFrom the New York Press.1
Writing a love letter is the hardest
strain on ones sanity.
The way a woman starts an argu-
ment with her husband is he does it.
1t doesn't take a girl very long after
she marries a man to appreciate how
lucky he was.
There's nothing can discourage
woman more than how slim her ankles
stay without appearing to do so.
Dropping his shoes on the stairs
doesn't help a man to remember in the
morning what time he said last nignI
he got home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

John Jacob Astor, the infant son of
Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, has a hard
row to hoe. The courts have allowed
only 1888 for his support each year
for the next three years. Aren't the
courts unreasonable at times? No
wonder some people agitate the recall
of Judges and judicial decisions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

Governor Wilson is undoubtedly
most remarkable man. He proposes
to follow Listening policy for sew
eraI weeks before making any an
nouncements concerning important
matters of state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

Vic Murdoch certainly must have
read the Kansas election returns with
magnifying glasses of tremendous
power. He insists that Kansas is a
Progressive state. If he had spelled
the word Progressive" with a small
''p'' there would have been no good
grounds to take exception to his other
wise fnexcusable optimism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

Surely the enthusiasts in the local
anvil chorus will take a few days off
this week while the annual convention
of the Blacksmiths Horseshoers' and
Wagonmakers' association of Kansas
is being held here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

There seems to be plenty of natural
gas in the Oklahoma fields. But the
big thorn with this rose is that there
are not sufficient pipe lines to fur
nish the consumers with an adequate
supply in cold weather. And capital
lists can see no prospects of reasonab BILE
profits in going to the large expense
of providing additional pipe lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

Political parties, like individuals,
are never satisfied with the portion
awarded them. Reports from New
York are to the effect that the Demo-
cratic national leaders have already
begun to make further plans to
boost their party. As a matter of
fact, it now appears to be right at the
ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

Kansans seem to be unusually clev-
er at everything except in counting
quickly and correctly the ballots cast
on election day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

At any rate the old-fashioned Re
pubIicans can point with pride to the
fact that the biggest corn crop in the
history of the nation was grown under
Republican rule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

It is only some of the defeated can
didates who are of the opinion that
the nation and it's government will go
to the dogs now that they have been
denied the advantage of their distin-
guiShed services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

A Pittsburg pastor announces that
another prophet is about due. There's
room for him; most of the prophets
that worked during the recent political
campaign have resigned from the job.