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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
QUAKER HIEDITATIONs.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.

From the Pn1laQelpnld fSScOrO-l
An early play bill-Shakespeare.
The men who live longest only live one
day at a time.
Even the chronic borrower can at least
return thanks
1t is better to lose on the election than
to lose your head over it.
The luxuries of life no matter what our
station may be, are the things just be-
yond our reach
The men who become rich are usually
those who began life so poor they couldn't
get any credit.
1t is human nature to delude ourselves
with the idea that no one is old who is as
young as we are
Neli-'sDoes Maude do any work for
charity2" Belief believe she once made
A crazy quilt for insane asylum.
1.-The oId-fashioned tramp seems to have
remarked the jokesmith,
sadly Yes replied the comic artist
che must have gone with the old-fask-
toned wood cut
THAT is a beautiful interview with you
on the higher ideals of the American
drama in this mornings Checkered," re-
marked the Industrious press agent. SIS
that sop yawned the great emotion ac-
tress Suppose you order me a cocktail
and then read it to me. I am curious to
know what my views of the higher ideals
Of tina American drama are"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

And above all these things put on chdr1-
! ty, which is the bond of perfectness.
| Colossians III IA.
! In the ceaseless strife that every
man is waging for his own advance
ment and betterment, it behooves him
1 to remember that there are others in
| the world not so fortunately situated
as he. They need his assistance, little
or large as he is able to give. The
extension of that help, no matter
what form it takes, is charity. And
as the gifted Paul wrote to the Colos-
slams, in the words quoted above,
charity is far and away beyond all the
attributes that it is desirable for hui
mans to have. 1t is the bond of per-
fectness.
Nor does charity mean the mere
giving of aims or their equivalent. 1t
is most comprehensive in its scope.
1t takes in everything, kind and en-
couraging word as well as a kind and
helpful deed. Bad as the good old
world is painted by some of the pes
simists, there is much charity in it.
Considerable is misplaced even
through the best of intentions. But
there is far from being enough of it,
and it is better that some of it be mis-
placed than if it were never rendered.
Charity is the keystone on which is
built the structure of life. Without
it, society-civilizatio crum-
BILE and fall away. 1t is the help that
man gives to his brother that really
makes the world on go; that works
for progress in every direction.
Much of the actual suffering on
earth is actually assuaged by it. And
the Individual who extends as much
charity as he is able and who is as
charitable in all things as it is pos
sible for him to be feels all the better
for it. Nothing of greater happiness
can come to any man than for him to
know and realize that through some
effort of his another has been helped
on the way to better things. Nor are
the opportunities lacking for in
dulging in charity. They abound on
every hand. Some of them may seem
little and inconsequential but they are
not. And it is often the case that the
little acts of kindness which one has a
chance to do for another are of the
highest type of charity.
Nothing is so fine or so good as
charity well directed. and there can
not be too much of it. Lord Bacon in
his essay, on Goodness, pointed this
out in unmistakabIe fashion when he
wrote:
THE desire of power in excess
caused the angels to fall; the desire of
in excess caused man to
fall; but in charity there is no excess,
neither can angel or man come in
danger by it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
THE MOTHER.

She hath such quiet eyes,
That feed. on all eart1s wonders! She
will sit
Here in the orchard and the bewiIdering
beauty
OF blossomins boughs Iulls her as day
grows late
And level sunlight streameth through the
tree-stemS
Lying as pale gold on the green fallows,
and gliding the fleeces
or the slow-feeding sheep in the pastures.
While in her there stirs
A dream, a delight, wonder her being
knew not,
Yet now remembers, wistfully, as a thing
long lost,
Sunken in dim, green. lucid caves;
And her desire goeth out from her, toward
God, through the twilight;
Lost, too, in the waters OF His unfathom-
able silence,
While slow tears fill her eyes.
But the child, gazing upward,
denly scattered,
As a. bird flies through the branches;
And he reaches toward the soft, white
fluttering petals
That light upon his face, and laughs; ana
she
Stops over him quickly with sudden, hot.
passionate kisses,
Smiling for all her tears.
Frederic Manning, in the Spectator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
lighthouse a Monument.

The first memorial lighthouse to be
erected in the United States is In the
course of construction on the shore OF
al-e Champlain, and will common oratc
the deeds of the French explorer after
whom the lake is named. A lighthouse
now stands at Crown Point. New
York, and the determination to make
II a memorial of the discoverer was
reached during the course of the ter
centenary celebration of the discovery
in 1909. There are several memorial
lighthouses in Europe, but none has sc
far been erected in the United States
The old stone lighthouse at Crown
point was made the basis of the plar
which architects were set to work com
nleting. The project provides for thu
reconstruction of the old light tower IN
monumental form.-Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
THE TERROR TO CRIMINALS.

One common argument against capt.
tai punishment was hit hard in the
Richeson case. 1t will be long before
that phase of the solemn object les
son at Boston will cease to have it's
due effect.
The assertion is frequently made
that Imprisonment for life is a more
severe penalty than death and that its
effect in determining those tempted to
murder is as potent as capital punish
ment. Certainly that theory went wide
of the mark in the case of the young
man who has just gone to his death
as a warning to others who may have
the worst of crimes in mind.
Richeson struggled frantically for the
privilege of living in cell. He sought
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

DID you ever happen to notice what diff
ferent things different people will remem-
Der about the same event?
truly 1t is a most interesting study in
the psychology of memory to try this
experiment.
The other night, four of us who had
not met for some years-I refuse to say
just how many-came together. Naturally
we fell to reminiscing. At that last meet
ing we had all gone off on a canoe trip to-
gether, so the conversation ran something
like this:
DO you remember those crackerjack
sandwiches with some kind of fancy fill
ing In them, that Gretchen NADER" ques-
toned one of the men folks of the party.
None of the rest of us did. But 1 re-
member some lemon and lime that we got
at that little corner drug store. And
didn't it taste good after that hot waikiki
reminisced another materialistic male. He
also was alone in his "reminiscences.
My, wasn't it hot unused Gretchen. 81
wore the most shocking rag of a dress be-
cause it was the coolest thing L owned,
and 1 didn't have the decency to be
II remember that Dress" corroborated
another member of the party. 1T was
light blue and it had white around the
neck, and you looked as cool as a GU
cumber and good deal prettier.' Il don't
suppose 1 need state the gender of the
member from which this corroboration
came.)
"Oh, 1 remember it, too I suddenly
recollected. lit had white linen collar
and cuffs buttonholed in blue. You made
them at my house,
"And after lunch we read a story aloud,
and the boys said IL was silly and senti-
mental, but it really was beautiful, this
from Gretchen. None of the rest of us
recalled the story at all.
Then recollected game of cards which
no one would corroborate; and Gretchen
told about a pathetic little woman on
the train who had lost her ticket; one of
the men prated about a wonderful flock
of ducks which kept flying near us all
day. and of which he could undoubtedly
have brought down a dozen at shot if
he had had his gun; the other recalled a
short cut through the heart of the woods
which We took the way home. Not
more than two of us remembered any
of these things; most of them, all but one
of us had entirely forgotten.
But enough. 1 didn't mean to bore you
with full account of our canoe trip.
merely wanted to illustrate how strangely
memory works. Just as two people viii
pass down the same street and see totally
different things, two people Will pass
through life remembering totally different
things.
Try the experiment some time. Recall
some event which happened at least five
Years ago, and in which three or four
people participated, and get them to
reminisce about it. l think you VIII De
interested to find what different things
each one will remember
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
HUMOR OF THE DRY

Beggar-Please. mister, give me a
nickel. er-by-Can't do it, my good
fellow. All my money is in copper.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Gink-He's a very fortunate physician.
isn't he? Dink-Oh, yesi Few of his pa
tients die NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record
Maud Muller refused the Judge. 'I shall
marry an intelligent agrfculturist - she
cried. Thus we surmise IT was during the
campaign.-NeW York Sun.
''will you take a ticket for goat that
I'm rafflin'. sorr?'' But, Michael, have
no use for got" That's SO, sorr; but
yez probably wouldn't win it.-Boston
Transcript
THAT millionaire is very queer chan.
s'As to how2' Never claims he was hap
pier when he was poor. Always saws he
is happier now."-Washington Herald
ct think the doctor is about through
with me. Told me my ailment is prac-
tfcaIIy cured What did you have?''
ssThree hundred dollars, originally -
Louisville Ceurier-Journa1.
F'riend-I suppose IL was hard to lose
your daughter? FatI1er-Well, It did seem
as If 1t would be at time, but she
landed this fellow just we were begin
ming to give up hope.-Christian Intel.
ngencer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

monkey house, we may be able to dats
| Caruso for next season.
Cady Hodge claims the right to knock
all he wants to on the hot weather.
because he never peeped when it was
steen below zero. Cadys position is
harmless, but as a precedent, it is dan
gerous. Some wop might take it that
he has a right to knock on Topeka
just because he has refrained from:
knocking on San Francisco.
When anyone speaks of. the aver
age man. he means, of course, the poor
cook who has to dig like a hound pup
in a gopher hole.
Deacon Walker has returned from a
trip to the coast, and speaks of it as
the Golden West" The Deak is the
first returned pilgrim we know of who
has not admitted that the gold in the
eastern tourists.
But maybe the Deak had friends
who herded him away from the CLEAN
ers.
We don't know much about Califor-
mia, but have an idea it is something
like Florida used to be. In our youtI
we lived in the land Of flowers, and
inquired on trimming "winterers" for
enough TO keep US in bacon and Smok-
ing tobacco for the other nine months
of the year.
When This and That first landed or
our premises. they were bashful and
suspicious; now they are too blamed
friendly. We have to hold the Kan
sascitypest in one hand while reading
1T, reservfng the other hand to brush
the pronouns off our collar.
Teddyfe1t says he just naturally took
Panama, and that was all there was
to it. No one denies his assertion,
or cares much about it. The only
question is, who took the rest of the
several millions of dollars which was
NOT paid to the French syndicate?
Ty Cobb speaks Of Ban Johnson in
metaphors and two-em dashes-just as
the rough-neck spoke of Cobb, but up
to late hour this afternoon, Ban has
not climbed into the bleachers and up
percIlt Tv.
The question before the barber shop
debating club tonight is: RESOLVED:
That the man who wears the shorter
and-uglier kind of Undertaking is not
justified in saving the price of sup
porters be tying his socks to the vege-
tation below his patel1a.
The reading public didn't gain much
when Doc Wiley resigned. His won
derful offspring is now occupying the
headlines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Because Christy Matthewson did not
win all the games he pitched in the
last worlds series. the expert analysts
of baseball and its players profoundly
declared that he had shot his bolt
However, Christy seems to be pitching
as good ball nowadays as he ever did
Only the other day he held the strong
Cincinnati team in the hollow of his
hand. OF course. this IS not very i'm
portant except that it is contributory
evidence that the opinion of experts
on everything should always be taken
with grain of salt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If most folk had their own way
they'd be worse off.
=
AS soon as many jokes are cracked
they're found to be empty.
X X
Another symptom of spring fever is a
desire to go fishing.
n 4
Nor is it safe to judge mans means
by the grammar he uses.
% n
Many a girl with a homely face is
far more attractive than many of her
fairer sisters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrorn the Chicago News.l

IF'rom the Chicago News.1
A long grafton goes lame on the stretch.
There's music in the squaH of a baby
to its mother.
The man who makes light of others sci
dom sets the world on fire.
Marriage is about the only thing that
viii cure some girls of giggling.
A woman is proud of the virtues that
she practices because she has to.
A small boy whose face is always clean
may not realize what he is missing.
The man with an imagination is alway
on the ragged edge of making his mark.
The meanest trick bachelor can play on
a leap year girl is to promises to be a
brother to her.
A woman always credits. another woman
with having good Judgment when they
both happen to dislike the same person.
A man wants wife who can bake
bread like his mother; woman wants a
husband who can make dough Ike her
father.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

It's long time since a farmer in
this neck of the woods has purchased
a gold brick or anything like it. But
a farmer in close proximity to New
York City recently paid $4,000 for a
bag of gold dust that turned out to
be copper and brass filings As a
matter of fact. all of the farmers of
the "rube" type and joke-book fame
are to be found in the east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If the president of the American
League slammed 4 fan on the chin
would the president Ban johnson?
(Sit down in fronttii)
If the Athletics pitchers box was
muddy and they had no sawdust
would they use Plank2
(Here is where friendship ceases.)
If the children of the desert are
dark is the Israelite
CYepl Them was the days when the
pay was good.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

So chesty are the Democrats getting
these days that they are becoming
choice of the company they keep. A
report has it that the Georgia Demo-
Gratis have been politely informed by
the powers that be in the Democratic
party that the presence of Tom Wat
son at the Baltimore convention as a
delegate or in any other capacity is
not desirable. But watch Tom go,
Just the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

CFrom the New York Press.]
The man who thinks he would like to
be farmer never had to be.
The more a girl knows the more man
who doesn't know anything at all thinks
he can teach her.
A woman with handsome furs is ter
ribly afraid of catching cold on a day too
warm to wear them.
When a girl is going to give dance it 5
a sign she will do all the planning and
her mother all the work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

New Jersey is so small. territorially
speaking, that if Colonel Roosevelt
and President Taft campaign there as
actively as they have been doing in
other states, they will be able to cover
all of the mosquito state three or
four times by next Tuesday when the
primary is to be held.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
Nanaras.

Champ CIark's managers insist that
he will be nominated on the first bal
lot. Champ has 39S delegates now
and it is expected that he will get at
least 12O more from the delegates yet
to be chosen. However, it will take
1888 delegates to win the Democratic
nomination on the first ballot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

use your head" is the advice of
William ]. Burns to those who would
be detectives. This is sure to come
as a rude shock to the amateur sleuths
who have long been obsessed with the
idea that a set of false whiskers and
a pair of rubber-soled shoes are all
that is needed to ferret out criminals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Dr. Wiley's baby boy certainly ar
rived as an opportune medium by
which the doctor could keep in the
Iimelight. But he seems to be
stretching things bit in this particu-
lar by announcing the engagement of
his week-old son to two-year-old
6a bxyc irI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

What Wilt be the biggest steamship
in the world, the Imperator, of the
Hamburg-American line, has just
been launched. And it is foregone
conclusion that neither the Imperator
nor any other big steamship afloat
will go tearing through an ice field
at top speed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Baltimore is looming up as a con-
vention city. 1t has just been select
ed as the meeting place for the next
annual convention of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Senator LaFollette declares that the
peoples resentment against unlawful
combinations of capital is growing all
the time. So is their resentment
against unholy political combinations.
But no law can be framed, apparent
ly, by which the latter can be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
DEATH WAS DUE R1cHEsoN.
FROM OTHER PENS

RECEIVER FOR COFFEE TRUST.
The sensational feature in the ac-
ton which the United States district
attorney has taken against the Ameri-
can representative of the coffee val
orlzat1on scheme, is the petition for
the appointment OF a receiver with
the avowed purpose of putting the Sc
questerea stock of berries on the open
market. The direct effect of this ac-
ton, should it BIZ approved by the
courts, might not be very important.
1t is estimated that there are $4,000
bags of trust coffee now in this
country. or about 125, 900, 900 pounds.
The annual consumption of coffee in
the United States is over eight hun
dred million pounds, so that the re-
lease of this reserve would not be a
very large crop in the national coffee
cup. But the possibility of a receiver
ship and the direct control of the of
fending enterprise by the government
through an official of the courts is
far-reaching as a phase of trust-buck-
ing A receiver was suggested in the
Tobacco case, and was threatened in
the case of the Harvester Trust and
also in dealing with the Packers.
Court receiverships in cases of bank
ruptcy or other necessary dissolution
are common and ordinarily are salts
factorily administered, but this is a
receivership of a different sort. II
the government is sustained in it's
program in the coffee market, there
would be esta blishej an effective rem
edy that would make corners" in any
commodity a risky form of specula-
ion.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

If a ski1lful chauffeur is put on the
job, the new automobile dog-wagon
that has been placed in service by
progressive Chicago ought to be able
to kill all the dogs it cannot catch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Now that a jury has cen selected
to try the case against him, the psy-
GEOLOGICAL moment would appear to
have arrived for Clarence Darrow to
plead guilty. That's the procedure he
advised in the case against the Me-
NaTnaraS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

One of the easiest records in the
world to smash is a Kansas weather
record. Thursday was the warmest
May % in twenty-five years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nor is Ty Cobb helping his cause
much with the fans or any one else by
his continued TRADES against Ban
johnson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
KANSAS COMAENT
THE ART OF TRAIN ROBBERY.

THE ART OF TRAIN ROBBERY
Although Uncle Sam resents any
suggestion that this is not a thorough
~ civilized country, yet the profession
vogue. Only few nights ago bandits
got 100000 out of an express car near
Hattiesburg, Mississippi and many
other hauls of recent date will occur to
newspaper readers.
A the habit of 'gun totinl. grows
less common, a train load of travellers
grows more helpless. In The rough
days of the West when the coroner
would call 1t suicide il you didn't get
the drop first, train robbing was not so
gentle an art.
A noted train robber has said that
the worst trouble in his business was
not getting the money, but spending
1t afterwards without being swindled
AS far as the difficulty of robbery
goes, the element of shock and sur
prise when the train is attacked re-
duces the most strapping athlete and
DragSy drummer to a limp rag
Even if officers happen to be on the
train, they will quite likely conceal
their weapons and hand over their con-
tr1butfons. They are consoled by the
prospect of fat deputies fees after the
elaborate machinery of pursuit is set
in motion
The robber has no sickly scruples
of conscience about depriving other
people or their money But even in
the outlaw side code there may be
some rudimentary notions of fair
play that are violated by the dirty
trick of an ambush IN the dark
Looting an express car seems to be
regarded as more professional, as we'll
as more profitable. Many men carry
money in checks and credits not easily
collectible, women have that most Il
pregnable bank of all-the stocking,
and the profits of a personal hold-up
are small compared with the prize in
the express car.
There is one point where the train
robber is sure to be caught if he keeps
on playing the game. He may choose
MS accomplices as a girl would choose
a husband. Sooner or later they 20
back on him. AS there is a heap more
run IN chasing than being chased.
many of them finally turn I'D with
deputies badges on, and some very
lnconVenient recollections.- Winfield
Courier.
DEATH WAS DUE RICHESON.
Governor F'oss, of Massachusetts, ap-
pears to be right level headed sort
OF an executive. In the Richeson case
ne very wisely decided that even
though there might be some reason for
beIleV1ng that the clerical murderer
was insane it was better to give So
c1ety the benefit of the doubt and al
low the sentence of the court to be
carried out. No human being, not even
the condemned man himself could pos
s1bly nave been benefited by Richie
sons continued existence on this earth.
-Salina Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
by THE WY

| The flowers that bloom in the spring
are undoubtedly pond lilies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Now that Topeka is to have real
monkey house, we may be able to date
Caruso for next season.