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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
VERMONT.


If the Bull Moosers are getting any
thing real in the way of satisfaction
out of the showing they made in the
Vermont state election, it is proper to
set them down as optimists of an I'M
adulterated type.
When party that makes professions
of being able to sweep the county can
not make a better showing in Vermont
than do the Democrats in that state. It
is a weak sister, indeed. And this la
mentally poor showing was made in
the Green Mountain state after Colonel
Roosevelt had put in three days there
OF his most vigorous campaigning for
his cause.
Vermont is one of the few states
where it takes a straight majority vote
of the people to elect a governor. And
the Progressives did poll sufficient
number of votes to deny the Republican
candidate, who received a 5000 plural
ity over the Democratic candidate, a
majority. This throws the formal cleo
ton of the governor into the legislature
But in the matter of legislative candi-
dates, the Republicans had everything
practically, their own way. And the
Bull Moosers did even worse in this
particular than they did with their can
dfdate for governor. For instance, take
the candidates for the lower branch of
the legislature as an example. The Re
publicans elected ITO, the Democrats IS,
and the much-frazzled Bull Moosers
trailed along with no more than IA.
Some of the more enthusiastic of the
new party's adherents unblushingly de-
tn, ont
They did, for fact. But the score was
OF minimum variety.
If the Bull Moose demonstration in
Vermont can be taken as d criterion of
What it wiz be in other parts of the
country the dreams of Mr.. Roosevelt
for third term are among those that
went come true. However, nobody but
he and a few of his more ardent ad-
mirers have ever had any idea that
they would. But if the Bull Moose
vote in other states is proportionately
as large as it was in Vermont, small as
it was there, it is going to make some
hard shedding for the Republicans in
some of the states where there is not
such wide a divergence between the Re
publican and the Democratic vote as
there is in Vermont. 1t will throw
those states into the Democratic col
umn Of course, this would be entirely
So tisfactory to the dog-in-the-manger
motive of the Bull Moose movement. Tt
is as much concerned with personally
spitefuI desires to defeat President Taft
as it is with a possible success of its
own. And SO the Vermont election
shows that the only sure way of defeat
ing Woodrow Wilson is for the Republi-
cans the country over to vote for Taft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
Rees make Fake Honey.

In war times down South it was the
habit of the women to say that coffee
made from okra, wheat, rye, or sweet
potatoes was really better and more
like coffee than the real thing. That
was wholly patriotic thing for them
to say in the circumstances, and help
ed to relieve the situation, but there
was no reason. after the event, to keep
up the agreeable and wholly honest de-
ception. For the time, and as long as
it lasted, the Confederate coffee of the
South was as good coffee as the real
bean; certainly it was as good as the
things which have since been invented
to take its place. There is much ado
made about the things that we eat.
A case was recently decided by one OF
the French courts which shows how
nature may be employed in aid of an
imitation that can, nevertheless, be de-
tected. A grocer arrested for selling
honey without the distinguishing label
required by the statute was tried and
convicted and fined 25 francs. The hon
ey he sold was made by the bees not
from the natural nectar gathered from
the flowers, but from sugar upon which
they had been fed by the keeper.
It was contended that this honey, al
though made by the bees, working a s
hard as they could all day long. was ar
tificial, or, as identified by the court,
was ''Iniel de fantastic" or, as the
Westminster Gazette translates it,
synthetic honey" or, as the Ameri-
cans would say, near honey" Chem
ically, it was not the levulose of flow
ers that bloom in the spring, but just
Gene sugar beeswaxed New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Kid Mccoy says the Belgian cops
are boneheads. Perhaps the d1scoN-
cry is what prevented him from risk
ing his knuckles by taking a few
pokes at them.
The Colonel carries tank OF
oxygen with him, and is thus prepared
to manufacture hot air while you
the Colonel doesn't need any compIl-
Gated machinery.
In a wild effort to give the BULL
moosers the best of it, Kansas Il. M.
organ states, headlinefully, that Pro
gressives score in Vermont" Reminds
one of the wild efforts of the loyal
sport writer who headed it: topeka
scores in the NINTH" neglectlng' until
the tail end of the item to observe,
casually, that it was Topeka's only
score in a 121 game.
Crooks are threatening to plant
dynamite on the Rockefeller estate:
Plot, probab bly,, to raise the price OF
oil.
Our idea of getting in with the best
people would be a paid-up member
ship in T RS Ananias club. A roster
of the bunch who doesn't oeions
would be the greatest inducement to
membership.
Inc Fort Riley SOlQl6TS SOb tACAA
June, July and August pay in lump,
but a soldiers pay is such that the
lump was not as big as they Will nave
in their Threats if they ever get into
a case of actual warfare.
The strong minded woman may
want all of the other privileges &C
corded man, but she will balk at tip
ping a restaurant waiter.
'"Thuh cheap sport is usually expen-
sive tub his friends and family. -
Deacon Squash.
Every baby seems to take a lot Of
stock in the motto: "a place for every
thing and everything in its place.
The place being its mouth.
When a man starts to go to the
dogs he usually meets the whole
DANCED pack half way.
Maud Muller, on a Summers day
Raked the meadow sweet with hay,
Whereupon the Judge passed that
way; he PASSED that way, merely
hitting his horse a wallop and OBJ
serving: "Giddab-dabyuh- CFIOWF!'
The Judge, as we understand it, did
MT even stop for a drink of water, as
reported; he had hay fever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
SAYS UNCLE CIV

If you happen to be a waiter or II
bellboy or a messenger, it's your bust
ness to jump when you're called
That's what you're paid for and what
is expected. But the best equipped
man in his line that ever knew lost
the best executive position he ever
had because he jumped at the beck o.
his employers.
from top to bottom, but he has no
self-reliance," was the Judgment or
the chairman of the executive board.
mo man with Self-reliance will come
running like 5eil-hop every time his
employer appears" So they discharg-
ed him and gave his $4,000 year
position to a man who knew less, but
acted as if he knew more.
We have no confidence in him who
wears constantly an air of subser-
vience. Level-headed men who have
won wealth and built up great indus
tries know that the mental attitude
doesn't go with executive ability. 1t is
incompatible with courage. It is no
running mate for initiative. 1t is the
fruit of repression and the earmar9xs
of the human machine.
The man who comes on the jump is
likely to have most of his brains il
pendence of thought or action. He
who puts in all his time obeying or
ders and listening for others has more
left in which to direct the labors OF
others.
The employee who is constantly run
ming after his employer betrays the
fact that he has no confidence in his
own way of doing things. The spirit
of his directions means nothing to him
he is so small that he can only CARR
out the letter of his orders. This is
the peculiar province of mon who are
hands and feet for bigger men. When
we hire men to think for us we do no-
look for those who are quick to jump
and rum copyright, 1912, by the
Mcclure NeWspaDer SYndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
HUMoR or THE DAY

Gentleman (engaging groom)-Are you
married? Groom-No, sir. I was thrown
agin a barbed-wire fence and got my face
scratched!-The Taller.
Desk Sergeant-What did you put that
fortune teller out of business for? Police
1nspector-She's humhug. [ tried "a
fino out from her what had become OF
the diamond pin I lost the other day and
she gave me the wrong steer.-Chicagd
Tribune
The Higher Observation-Disclosures (aftes
village choir has massacred sublime
passage at oratorio rehearsal)-Ye'n haa
to dae better than that. 1 can a. maist see
Handel himself loolkin' doom frae heaven
an sayin' Man Jamie, but you're maxim
an awful bungle o't."-Punch.
But this is not Old Roaring Rye" saie
the customer, as he set the empty glass
on the bar. This Is an Imitation and /
can tell the difference" That's al
right" said the barkeep. as he rang ur
the IS cents This kind gives you Just az
classy a jag as the original Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many of the young ideas are
not taught to shoot straight.
X
Sweet sixteen usually applies to a
girls looks, not her disposition.
y
Some of the faults you see in 9TH
ers you consider virtues in yourself.
=
The man who puts implicit trust in
his memory is in for a lot of en-
barraSsment.
Nor is there much competition these
days to be the best dressed man in any
locality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Be sood-and your wife may be happy.
street car conductors are not necessarily
fond of jam
Perhaps girls kiss each other merely to
keep in practice
man disIikes faint praise almost as
much as he hates abuse
An ounce of intuition may be worth
more than a pound of tuition.
There's a good deal of human nature IN
woman's fnhumanity to woman.
roman's idea of a model husband is
one who lets his wife do as she pieases.
The reason some women know so much
about raising children is because they
haven't any.
1t takes genuine diplomat to get into
trouble and back out again without get
ting single spot on his reputation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
HOPELESS LOVE.

HOPELESS LOVE.
Since know.
Hopeless of thy love go;
Since from me each dear delight
takes flight;
Ere we end
Ways we might together wend.
Ere thy light from out mine eyes
dies;
Give some sign,
One regretful thought was thine,
Lest count my story told
OVERLOAD.
For hold
Time may yet some joy unfold,
Joy such as the lifelong blind
If entwined
In the fabric of the mind
Dwells the memory of thy tear,
dear.
Eleanor Hull, in The Nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Eubsc1 Ifers of tho state Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents q week or thirty cents q
month Cby nail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State journal will be
tn You like a 1nily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to SAv0
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
DAFFYDHS
BY U. ToALL.

If you call father Pop would
you call mother '.Mop?"
(Our agents will now pass among
the audience selling gold dollars for 80
cents.)
When your aunt is out is your
cousin?
(Ain't this the cruel worldly
If an oak tree is old is the box
elder?
(Let him commit suicide. if he
wants to.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

ties" said Mr.. Roosevelt at st. Louis
the other day. I'VE ought to run a
straight Progressive ticket" Incl
dentally. is there any state where the
prospects are at all good that the Bull
Moosers can take over bodily any wing
of the Democratic party? If so, Mr..
Roosevelt is apparently the only one
who has any information on this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press.l

lHTO1 the new AOAk I1SoS-l
heap of patriotism is just noise
The more excuses, the more suspicion
they arouse.
It's the son who has to be supported
by his father that gives the old man the
most advice.
When a woman has green eyes it's a
sign you can become her mortal enemy b.
not calling them blue
When a man is a success he wouIdn't
have been If he had followed all the adj
vice he got when he started out in life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

An opinion prevails in France that
the United States is about to take pos
session of Nicaragua and establish a
protectorate over it. No, thanks!
Uncle Sam has all the outside troubles
he cares to worry about. In fact
there are enough at home to demand
his undivided attention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Blaming the Standard Oil company
for every untoward happening on the
face of the earth appears to be as
popular a pursuit as it ever was. SEN
ator Fall of New Mexico intimates
that the Standard Oil company pro-
vided the funds to finance the Ma
dero revolution against the Diaz gov
eminent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

According to the car data of the
railroads, the car shortage is getting
nearer and nearer and approaching
quickly. OF course. a car shortage
will cause a lot of annoyance to the
railroads and the shippers. but it is the
real advance agent of old General
Prosperity. So what's the odds?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Justice seems to be moving swiftly
in New York. Lieutenant Becker is to
be placed on trial on September IL
for being an accessory to the murder
Of Gambler Rosenthal It is to be
hoped that justice will move as surely
in this case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

several points at the news from Con-
necticut which told about an elephant
whipping a lion to a fare-you-well.
And if an elephant can lick a lion
that handily, or trunkily, what
couldn't it do to a Bull Moose?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Colonel Roosevelt will please take
notice. King George is reputed to be
the best shot in all England. And it
is reported that he has had as many
as four grouse falling in the air at
the same time, killed by two double
barreled guns. That, it is submitted,
is some shooting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Another indication that business is
on the boom is to be found in the fact
that in all the big money centers in
terest rates are advancing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news or
gantzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news is received in The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole puT-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Why don't the anti-footballists cry,
Down with baseball?" The great ma
tionaI game claimed two victims in
Philadelphia recently. Both were
young boys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
KANSAS COAMENT
WHERE MISSOURI ExCELs


Missouri is not up with Kansas in
education, morals and laws. At least
that is the general impression. But hold
on Missouri has a few good laws.
They may be even better than Kansas
laws on the same subject. For IN
stance in Kansas widow has several
children. She has a hard time to feed
an6 clothe them, to say nothing of be-
ing able to devote a little of the time to
their entertainment and instruction
that is necessary to their welfare. Kan
sas laws will take these children from
the mother, if it appears that she can
not support them, and place them in
state institutions, unless charitable
neighbors step in and render assistance,
and the poor heart broken mother IS
turned loose on the world, to grow bit
ter or perhaps criminal, because she
thinks all mankind is against her.
What does Missouri do? Missouri law
gives the mother ten dollars a month
for each child, let's the mother keep the
children at home, and the state institu-
tic MS are not over crowded, the children
have the benefit of mothers love and
care, which no institution has ever yet
duplicated. Which is the best the
Kansas or Missouri way?-Peabody
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Orozco must have an aeroplane
of an invisible type among his equip
ment. He has just been located at a
point several hundred miles from
where he was thought to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

No danger that Colonel Roosevelt
will run out of gas on his big swing
around the western circle. He is car
rying a tank of oxygen along with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Missouri has a citizen who hasn't
shaved for fifty-one years. But that
isn't anything much to brag about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
eminent

More evidence of the rule or ruin
intentions of the Bull Moosers. Elk
cept in those states in which we can
take over bodily either of the old par
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Japan also appears to be abreast
of modern civilization in the matter
of expensive funerals. The funeral of
the late mikado cost 100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

In voting down woman's suffrage,
Ohio has put a big crimp in its claim
that it is a most progressive state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

If the weather men want to regain
the popularity in which they were
held by Topekans before the late hot
spell, they must do their prettiest for
fair week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Thus is Kansas eternally disgraced
again. One of her farmers was an
easy victim of the lost pocketbook"
game on a Minnesota railroad re-
Gently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Every man who runs for office is a
great friend of the laboring classes
while he is running for office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
THE TOWN CRoAKER.


In every town you find some men
who always croak and growl; their.
chief amusement seems to be to snarl
and whine and howl. OF course they
do not prosper well-such people sell
dom do-and so they strive to make
themselves and all their neighbors blue.
If strangers come these men endeavor
to get them off alone, and while they
speak in doleful tones, tell them how
the town is dead and passed away,
and hasn't any enterprise that half be-
gins to pay; how real estate is very
low and taxes very high, and every
Improvement scheme is sure to wane
and die. The good book says day VIII
come when all must pass away and
swop for wings and golden harps this
tenement of clay, the earth will burn
with fervent heat, the sun go out In
gloom. and every living, breathing thing
shall find a real tomb. When that time
comes the croaker who drives against
his town-and tries to drive good men
away and breaks their efforts down
will be declared a victim for special
dose of flame. Meantime the energetic
man who labors for his town, always
works to build 1t up instead Of tea
ing down, will ride from earth tc
heaven in a Pullman palace car. and
will dwell in peace forever where the
frst-class angels are -Grainheld Cap
Sheaf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
FROM OTHER PENS

INCREASING YOUTH OF WOMEN.
The recent discussion, in the Young
Womens Christian Association, as to
at what age a woman ceases to DC
young, reminds US, in somewhat dr.
ferent connection, of Balzac's story a
Woman of Thirty" He points out
the charm and compelling interest such
a woman possesses as compared with
the young girl" Her experience and
understanding, her wise and tolerant
knowledge of the human heart. her ac-
uuired feeling of poetry in the back
ground of sex-expression-all this the
wise and experienced novelist saw in
the woman of 30 as opposed to the
merely lyrical, naif, and crude crea-
ture of 20. Balzac, of course, lived
some time ago, before the present era
CT women's inc reasing social expert
ences; before, on account of the way
they are emerging from the small home
to the larger society of human 1eingsi
the Renaissance anne to them, ii
Renaissance in which they are ex-
hilarated by the vision Of a larger
life. This vision of a larger life with
it's partial present realization, is keep
ing our women young. The age or
youth is older than in Balzac's time.
There are today many women 10 OF 10
years beyond the age of 80 who are
young; who are full of life and tenn
peramentaI curiosity, who are exciting
companions and objects of civilized
romance. If Balzac lived today he
would write story called "A Wom-
an of Forty" If he lived in the next
generation he might write a story called
"A Woman of Fifty."-New York
Globe.
TROUBLES OF GREAT MEN.
College heads, more than other less
exalted folk ought to be careful in
their manner of expressing themselves.
If an ordinary public speaker, IN a
burst of elOquence, likes to ring the
CHANCES on a famous remark of the
Duke of Wellington's about the play
ing fields of Elton and Harrow, we
readily overlook any little historic
lapse But when the president of
that 1.-The diamond and the gridiron
are moulders of the great men of our
country" we begin to rub our eyes
and wonder whether the learned pro-
lessor is perpetrating a subtle Joke or
speaking with fine-fiavored irony. For
the diamond" was never heard of
till after the Civil War, and our ma
tional game itself was evolved from
q sort of FOUNDERS" played by the
the soldiers. AS for the "gridiron"
that is of still later origin. Were there,
tn an, no giants in the land in those
dim and dark ages which were until
lumined by the enthusiasm of baseball
or football fans? It is a startling re-
Election that the men who fought the
battles in the war of independence
and the Civil War were ignorant alike
of the diamond and of the gridiron
It is even more startling to realize that
the trainers of the constitution itself
early training in the baseball field
NO wonder the colonel is dissatisfied
with such document=New Yorh
Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
RY TIE WY

Kid Mccoy says the Belgian cops
are boneheads. Perhaps the discoN-
cry is what prevented him from risk
ing his knuckles by taking a Few
pokes at them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

The Colonel carries a tank oil
oxygen with him, and is thus prepared
to manufacture hot air while you
wait. But it is a popular belief that
the Colonel doesn't need any compll-
Gated machinery.