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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
HUNOR ar THE DIP


rs the boss accessible?" asked the
stranger. IL don't know what that
means" answered the boy. Go on in
and ask him MISUNDERSTANDING Express.
II hear you have left Stingo & Co.'S"
Yes, I'm in business for myself now"
What are you doing?" Looking for
another job."-Pathfinder.
Thanlxfulness.-Therea are times when W..
should be thankful for what we fail 10
get.-St. Louis Times.
Shell just love a good skate He-I
would, too. If 1t wasn't for the mornine
after.-Oriole.
Does he know his own failinKs?v .stTs
ought to. His wife keeps the list"-Bir
mingham Age-Herald.
Waiter. this fowl is like rubber" yes.
sir. That's why we call It spring chick.
en."-Harvard Lampoon.
us he a man of pronounced views7.s
Yes; but they are pronounced by his
wife. Age-Herald.
IT understand your son is studying -
Yale 'Aheml My son is at YaIe. -
Birmingham Age-Herald.
York; YES TT was sung in E En- ns%
wasn't it?" IT was told so.''-CIeveiand
Plain Dealer.
How dreadfully stout the general g.
gettingH, Yes isn't it fortunate? Other.
wise he wouldn't be able to wear ali III.
medals!"-Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
AYHAWKER JOTS

If you dislike a fellow, says the Lo-
gan County News, why, maybe, it's be-
cause you don't know him.
An announcement is made by the
Parsons Sun that it has. adopted the
European plan" in political adVertis-
ing The candidates can order wha t
they want and pay for what they get
Here's an unpalatable morsel for the
-crop-kiIlerS. from the Ellsworth Mes
senger: If weather conditions con-
tinue favorable many fields of wheat
in this county will go as h1gh as forty
bushels to the acre this year.
By cutting out the word 'ain't" oc-
casionalIy and steering clear OF words
they don't know how to pronounce,
MANY a man, says Bert w aikef IN ms
Osborne Farmer, passes Tor college
graduate who reVcr got OUT "a |AAo
grammar room.
Whenever an old bachelor falls IN
love, muses. the Village Deacon in the
Osborne Farmer, and Deglns TO NJ
about like a lark with a joyous song
on his tongue, it causes all the other
lovers in town to buy dimes worth
of perfumery and Hope Again.
If there is a man in the state OF
Kansas with a full grown conscience,
says thu Norton Courier, 1t IS that
farmer over in the edge of OSBORNE
county WEo sold several stacks or nay
to his neighbors at $12 per ton, saying
that wa all the hay was worth ana
ought to bring, NOTWITHSTANDING lIlo
market price was $40.
The house that s f1lledewit music
is bound to be a house of cheerfulness
argues the Norton County News
Pianos and other instruments may
cost morey but it IS money we'll spent
when it leads to joy, happiness and
love of home. With more good music
in the rome there would be fewer
young people roaming around the
streets.
A newly married man at Concordia,
tells the Concordia Blade, is given to
being a tease, and one day this week,
he arrived home al noon and not find
ing his wife in the front of the house,
he started for the kitchen, when he
heard some one coming up on the
kitchen porch. Mr. Newlywed think
ing to play a little joke on WHEY,
grabs the door. and refuses to open
it. until she tells him what she will
give him in exchange. He holds the
door for a second, then throwing it
wide shouts, "Boo!' in loud voice,
and then wishes the floor would swal-
low him, as the lerson trying to get
in is no1 his wife, but a neighber who
is bringing some pie for their dinner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
IMPATTENcE

''Wait!,' do you say? But my arms fairly
ache for you
Och, but the waiting is dreary and long!
Sweet, the old heart OF mes ready to
break for you;
Sure, and the wish for you's growing
more strongI
Faith, 1 get mad for the sound and the
sight of you,
Ay, and the touch OF your head on my
breast,
And the feel of your hand and the kisses
SO light of you
''Wait?' do you say?-and It's all for
the best"
Waltz do you say? But I'm burning
with fire for you,
Crying aloud for you nighttime and day;
And my body and soul are athrill with
desire for you,
Wasting me swiftly and surely away.
watt" do you say? Is the heart of you
numb to me?
Where is your pity, love,-vanished and
flown?
Och, but I love you; oh, come to me, come
to mel
''wait?'' do you say? But I'm wanting
My Own!
Braley in Woman's World for
June.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
says UNCLE CAV

Happy is he who finds naught COM
mon in the EARTH" He who gets no
pleasure out of common things nor joy
in the society of common folk is mis-
cradle here and whatever may be your
idea of hereafter, of it he has little
hope. Disgust is his portion and dis
may his end -
A lively interest in the things about
us is the safest insurance against en-
nui, stagnation and spiritually dry rot
There is medicine in the passing show
and every aspect of nature The soul
that has bruised itself against the I'M
attaina BILE finds healing in a sense of
the external.
The most comfortable thing in the
world is a feeling ssf1fellowship for all
that exists, animated and inanimate.
He who diSdainS that which is common
cuts communication with his neighbors
and his surroundings. is lonely in the
midst of crowds and knows not the
soothing Influence of hat universal
sympathy which pulses throughS and
binds together all creation.
Better be brother to the stars call
the moon sister. acknowledge kinship
to the grass, and feel all humanity
flesh of my flesh than sit in disdainful
sovereignty over the wide world. None
so solitary as him that conceiVes him.
self to be of finer clay and spurns as
common" that which fails to reveal to
his unseeing eyes the hall mark Of his
caste. But he who sees in multitude
nous creation the evidences of kinship
is never alone, though he be in the
desert and is never lonely though he
dwell in a hermit's cave. Nature speaks
with soothing tongue of a mother
and humanity is a kindly elder brother
whose woe is his woe, whose joy is his
joy and whose ultimate hope is the
nope OF him who seizes upon this fra
ternal bond.-(Copyright, 1912, by w. e.
Williams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The individual who tries to be pop
ular seldom succeeds.
n n
Few surgeons are at all anxious to
make a cut in their bills.
r. X X
Nor does a man usually take off
his hat when he is forced to bow to
the inevitable.
Any number of people are honest
because of a lack of opportunity to
be otherwise.
n
You can get a reputation for having
excellent judgment by accepting the
suggestions made by your friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31


He was entitled to fall of ten
thousand feet before an audience of
$4,000 spectators
Wuxtry! wuxtryl Shock to Bokl
The Poifect Lady of the Ladies' Home
Choinal caught a bunch of girls dane
ing the turkey in his sacred shop.
The shock was so great that it took
him nearly Is hours to can the turkey.
type-for contributions to his cam
paign fund, that highly advertised
POPULAR
SUBSCRIPTION FUND!
one might gather that George Per.
kins and the other trust magnates had
quit Roosevelt, but such is not the
case. Any dollar contributed to that
popular subscription fund will be
placed where it will do the most
good. George and his gang put up
the original investment, but they fig
ured on getting it back with interest.
The boobs and simps of the country
will contribute to the popular sub
scription fund" and the trust gang
will be fully reimbursed.
OF course it is possible that George
and his gang are tired of keeping up
the buffet of the Roosevelt special
train. 1t is said that T, r. drinks only
the best, which COMES high as cats
back.
GA prophet may be without honor
save in his own country" says Hondo
Murphy, 'tbut the Old Soldier is hon
ored no matter where he stops. Steen
years ago, I came into New Orleans.
The town was full of smallpox and the
outside was Guaranteed against it.
Inside the town, conditions were so
bad that quarantine was useless. Dec
Grafton day came around, and over
thousand Union veterans of the Civil
war marched through the streets OF
the city. On the curb stood hundreds
of Confederate veterans, and major
ity of them wore small American
flags. Shouts of Bravo! Viva la
soldats!' were mixed with rebel yells
and the yells were not the poisonous
yells of warfare, but yells of friendly
badinage. Exchanges like: Remem-
Der Bull RUM and 'Yeh-but how
about what Sherman done to Georgy 2
were heard all along the line. A
prophet may get the worst of it when
he leaves home, but hero is recog-
nized even in the lad of the enemy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If a cyclone hit It would Pawnee
Rock?
(Can off your dog. lady! I'm an
honest tramp
If Flynn ticks Johnson can the
French Lick Springs?
(Tom Taggart, you're IT'D
When a man has to dig 100 feet fol
water can you say he is getting along
we'll?
Qadies and Gertsi The professor
will now sing that pathetic little ball
lad, entitled: she sleeps on the banks
of the Kaw."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
KANSAS COAMENT

STILL SOAKING THE CONSUMER
Once more the poor old patient con-
sumner must dig down into his pockets
and pay tribute to a grasping trust.
This time it is the coal trust. for the
announcement has been made. that tho
usual spring and summer discounts o.
30 cents per ton will not be allowed
this year. The excuse given for this
latest raid on the publfc's purse is that
there is shortage. and that it costs
more TO mine COAL on account of the
increased pay granted the miners 1t
is known that there is no coal short
age. The coal trust expected, long be-
fore the expiration of the miners con-
tracts in April, that there would be A
shutdown, and in anticipation Of that
shutdown they stored up vast quanti-
ties of coal. Instead of a shortage
there is an actual oversupply. The in
creased pay to the miners amounts TO
31s cents per ton, which is considera bly,
less than the 30 cents per ton the trust
will save by refusing the usual dis
counts. It is the same old routine of
exacting a large tribute from the pub
lie on the strength of a small advance
to the workers. Thus the public pays
not only for the strike" which was
not, strictly speaking, strike, blu
rather a temporary shutdown pending
miners, but for the increased pay TO
the miners as well.-Salina Union.
WHERE ROOSEVELT IS SILENT.
Senator LaFollette charges directly,
specifically and .emphatieally that
Judge Gary, of the Steel Trust, Geo.
w. Perkins of the Harvester Trust.
Dan r. Hanna, son of Mark Hanna,
and other big trust magnates have
made up purse of a million dollars
and are using it to make Roosevelt
president again. LaPollette usually
knows what he is talking about, and
he has challenged Roosevelt to mako
public a sworn statement of the list
or his campaign contributors. to
which as yet the colonel has made no
reply. Also the colonel has made no
reply to the presidents challenge 70
say whether or not, in case of his cleo
ton, he would dismiss the suits which
Taft has begun against the Steel Trust
and the Harvester Trust. Also no re-
ply has been made to the charge that
the colonePs. campaign in Ohio alone
cost upwards of $500, OOO The national
convention is not going to be Controlled
by force or fraud, as the colonel very
justly remarks. But is it not about
time to inquire whether it is going to
be controlled by money-trust moneys
lola Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

at one side is an old street car, gayly
painted, and bearing the words Hap
Ply thoughts" Around the door are
not two but four children.
l am frequently an invited guest of
the children at their merrymakings,
and ind that the little car is as dear
to Jimmy and his wife as it is to the
little ones. who call it their cubby
mouse and share it with a stubby
tailed yellow dog.-(Copyrieht 1912. by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press.1
man can be a fairly good citizen as
long as he's sick abed.
The enthusiastic voter wouldn't be If he
knew what 1t was about.
The best thing about an artistic temper
ment is not to have it in the family.
A girl hates a sore throat because of
the way people may suspect how she
got 1t.
"A fool always has the advantage of
having nothing expected of him that he
can't make good on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Nor have the fathers shown much
enthusiasm over the proposal that a
special day be set apart for their hon
or and entertainment. This may be
explained by the fact that every Sun
day when the ball team is at home is
a fathers day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

It's a good thing for the peace of
mind of the suffragists that the slo-
gan, which seems to be so popular
these days, that 'the bosses must CO."
relates wholly to political bosses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Colonel Roosevelt has actually over
looked at least one chance to file a
protest against boss rule. Harry New,
chairman OF the Republican national
committee, selected the chaplains 20
open the several sessions of the Chica-
60 convention without consulting him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Indications are coming to the front
that the Cuban revolution is to develop
into a war of words. The leader of the
rebels has just issued a lengthy state
ment. This will necessitate a reply
from the Cuban government. Then the
rebels will reply to the reply, and so
On ad infinitum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

air machine that would really fly. He
made innumerable flights for height,
distance and speed, each of which
was fraught with grave danger. And
his untimely end came through an at
tack of typhoid fever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

This has been a rather peculiar
spring season in Kansas and surround
ing territory. But it is difficult to i'm
agine just what it has been in tho
eastern section of the country. A Bos-
ton newspaper describes it as "slopsy-
eooIev0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
FROM OTHER PENS
GRAMMAR BY ABSORPTION

GRAMMAR BY ABSORPTION
Inere are some persons who never
Sluoled grammar and who hardly
know noun from an adVerb but who
nevertheless habitually employ good
English. There are many others who
IN their school days succeeded in
passing their examinations in gram
mar, but to whom good English seems
70 pc an entirely unknown language.
Real1z1ng that the old methods az
teaching grammar in the schools ac-
compl1SheS so little of the Intended
result, educators have been seeking
new ways. The latest development
along this line is to be found i'm n
recommendation that will be made. it
is understood, to the New York board
of Education. The fecomme end fjor,
comes from a commission appointed
by the board to investigate and re-,
port upon the present educational
system 1t is, in effect that in all the
Slem entary schools grammar shall
nerearter be taught solely by absorp-
ton If this suggestion is carried into
erect there will be no more parsing:
no more analyses: no more parrot
like repeating of declensions and con-
1ugations. On the contrary, the pupils
VIII be taught good English by read
ing good English. More attention
viii be given to correct speaking than
IN the past, and it is hoped that In this
way majority of the children before
they reach the secondary schools will
be able to speak English at least as
lnteII1gently as does the newly arrived
foreigner. Undoubtedly there is much
need of improvement. The English
language is today more often abused
than used by school children who are
presumably learning grammar. If the
absorption method of teaching proves
to be all that its advocates claim for
it, its general adoption should speedily
follow.-Cincinnati Tirnes-Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

notwithstanding the fact that this is
Leap Year, the prospective crop of
June brides does not appear to be any
larger than usual. In fact, it seems
smaller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Another instance crops up where for
eign missionary work is engaged in
when there is plenty of opportunity
for the same kind of efforts at home.
Uncle Sam is to see to it that there is
an honest election in Panama.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Inasmuch as there was no other
candidate in the field against
him, Woodrow Wilson's great vic
tory in the New Jersey primaries is
really not exceedingly significant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Does the strike of the walters in the
New York hotels for more pay indicate
that the anti-tipping movement is
making material Roadway?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Captain Rostron, of the Carpathia,
is an unusual hero for these days, but
none the less the real thing in that
line. He is a modest man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

With good baseball pitchers selling
az all the way from $1,000 up, the
chances of the Kaws annexing a couple
do no: seem to be bright
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

In this neck of the woods, at least
there has been no riotous response to
the suggestion of the federal depart
ment of agriculture that the surest
way to get rid of the sparrows is to
eat them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Neither does it take much of a pro-
phet to foretell that each of the many
bands in attendance at the Baltimore
convention will have the houn' dawg
tune in its repertoire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

From the cheap retorts of the Brit
ISL newspapers, it is evident that Sen
ator Smiths report fixing the blame
for the Titanic disaster was a blow
Of the solar plexus variety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Only one more day and the time VIII
be ripe for the use of the stock para
graph concerning what is so rare as
a day in June?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Here's another boost for the OAR
wInian theory. A Cincinnati zoo keep
er has discovered that monkeys like
foddv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Interest in major league baseball
now centers on the loss of a game by
the New York Giants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

Fate plays peculiar pranks. Wilbur
Wright survived all the perils incident
to the development of a heavier-than-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
STUDY MUSIC AT HOME.

Stories continue to come from Ber-
lin which should serve as warnings
to American girls who contemplate
going to Germany to study music. Two
girls from New York who took a room
in boarding house recommended by
teacher in the conservatory where
they were studying singing lad reason
for trying to leave the place at night.
but found themselves locked in. After
passing the night in great anxiety,
they escaped at daybreak, leaving
their belongings, which, after some
difficulty, were recovered for them by
the United States CONSUL Two other
American students of singing, who en-
gagged rooms for only one month.
were compelled to pay three months
rent. the landlady getting a servant
maid to swear against them when they
disputed her unfounded claim. There
is no necessity for American girls to
go to Berlin to study music.-Milwau-
kee Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
by THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARsoNa

1t is not right that Wilbur Wright.
inventor of the aeroplane, should be
the first aviator to die in. bed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

He was entitled to fall of ten
thousand feet before an audience of
$4,000 spectators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

The Poifect Lady of the Ladies' Home
Choinal caught a bunch of girls dane
ing the turkey in his sacred shop.
The shock was so great that it took
him nearly 48 hours to can the turkey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

ibid you hear the new opera in NJ,
York;" Yes" 1T was sung in Fneiisb
wasn't it?" Il was told so.''-CIeveIan =,
Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31

IT understand your son is studying AZ
Yale" ''Aheml My son is at YaIe ~
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-21
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS
CHRISTMAS PROGRAMMES

Christmas vesper service will be held
at the Young Womens Christian Asso-
citation, 936 F Street Northwest, Sunday
afternoon at 4:3O o'clock at the hour
regularly set aside for the Sunday after
noon vespers. Mrs Fred Bell will be the
leader and principal speaker, and Miss
Esther Linkins, soloist. The music and
tn" addresses will be appropriate to the
holiday season
Miss Florence NJ. Brown, secretary of
the association, yesterday announced that
a feature of the Sunday work of the
Y. w. c. A. hereafter will comprise the
opening of the new F Street quarters
every Sunday from 3 o'clock until s, and
that all members and their friends who
may be downtown between those hours
may feel at liberty TO use the house.
The Secret Of Failure and Success in
the Christian Life" is the subject of an
address TO be delivered tomorrow at the
Sunday afternoon assembly of the Y. NJ.
{. A. by Rev. Samuel w. Graffiin, pastor
of the Anacostia NJ. E. Church. The
meeting takes place at T.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-21
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

New York. Dec. 9-MILLFEED-FIrm: demand
fairly active. Spring bran. BIS; standard mid
diings 3.75; Western red-dog $50; winter wheat
bran in loOlb sacks TO arrive, 4.5O; city bran. in
bulk. go
RYE STEADY; trade Is dull. Western to arrive
Is valued at about 90 l. f. track and state at a.
RYE ELOUR-LifelesS; prices steady; gOod
to choicn quoted at 36Oa4O5 IN barrels.
BUCKWHEAT F1OUR-Fim: supply is meager
Choice nominal at 235a2-O for 100 lbs.
GORNMEAL-Steady; business Is moderate. Kiln
dried. new. for export, S.25a5.5O; coarse meal, in
bags, L5al-3O for old.
HAY-Recslpts l.lO5 tons; easy. Business is life
less. Quotations No. l timothy LILO; stand
ard IO5 No. >. Local .O2ls No. B. gOaS5.
STRAW-Receipts, 10 tons; easy; dealings are
hight Long ne quoted at 10 Oats straw is scarce
and values unsettled. possibly 20
PORK Steady: business is dull Mess. 70 oOal9. >
family. q OOaS3 50
BEEF Steady; offerings light ard trade slow.
PsCkot. 2Ooa23O0; family 3 OOa9a 90.
LARD-SteSdy limited dealings. Prime West
Crn. 1880 refined Continent, TO- 80; South Amer
can, lilo; refined Brazilian. in kegs. l270: beef
stcarine, 81; lard tearine dull: New York. ia.
COFFEE-The coffee markets Of the world seem
TO be settling down the usual pre-holiday uness
The volume Of business in the foreign markets
moderate for the day. but the sdViccs from Euro
Iean oenters rather favorable
The days prices were as follows: