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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
SAYS UNCLE CIV

If riches be your goal, have a care
that you do not fall heir to the curse
OF Midas and wear ASS ears. There
is that which is splendid in the win
ming of wealth through a good uphill
fight against conditions other men find
1nsuperable. And since civilized society
has existed wealth has brought power
Hate has also been its companion, and
this principally because of the ass S
ears. $50
1t becomes genius to bear itself mod
estly-no less does it become wealth.
That which is constantly exposed to the
shafts of envyashould have wisdom
enough to turn those shafts with tenn
perance, forbearance, kind words and
wide sympathy. There is no conceit
so utterly objectionable as that of gem
ius. 1t should be known that he that
exalteth himself might as well ring
up the costumer and order the badge
of folly. Next to swell-headed genius
the most despicable thing on earth is
swell-headed wealth, strutting in pur-
chased plumes-and ass's ears.
The obligation of wealth is the uni
versal obligation of talent to be of
use in the world. In that it is put
to human service it is worthy of COM
mendation; in that it ministers solely
to the luxury of the possessor it merits
only such consideration as shall be nee
essary to get it out of undeserving
hands into hands that know it's true
purposes. OF all privileges it is the
least able to afford misuse. Malicious
envy makes its slumbers nightmares,
and while genius, loudly Wanting it.
self, wears the cap and bells invisible
to its own eyes, but visible to it's neigh
boris, so wealth, jingling its dollars in
public places, dons unconsciously the
ass's ears that all the world derides.-
Copyright. 1912, by the Mcclure News
raDer SyQdicate,l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
DAYBREAK.

The blushing dawn the east iIIumes,
The birds their merry mathis sing,
The buds breathe out their sweet per-
fumes,
And butterflies are on the wing.
1 pause beneath a window high,
The door is locked the house is quiet;
Tis there, abed, she sure must lie
To wake her-ah! I'll try it.
And pebbles hurting through the air,
Strike full upon the window pane,
Awakening her who slumberS there
With their insistent hurricane.
Ye godSi in my Imagination,
The wondrouS scene do behold
A nymph's bewildered CONSERVATION
At summons thus so fierce and bold.
A moment passes, then I see
The gauzy curtains drawn aside,
And sweet eyes beaming down on me,
And then a window upward glide.
Fair as morn, with rosy light,
She bushes with a faint surprise,
Then, thinking of the previous night,
In duIcet tones she softly cries:
But I'll be down within a minute
No, never mind, leave your own can,
And put two quarts, please, in it.
Jack London, in Joe Chapple's News
Letter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.I
Money that works beats money that
talks.
One touch of fashion makes a lot OF
women kin.
A man seldom keeps the promises he
makes to himself.
A man may have a swelled head with
out having a broad mind.
When a woman is singing she isn't talk
ing about her neighbors.
Some people are satisfied with the gilt
ter even it is isn't gold.
The angel a man marries is apt to shed
her wings a few days later.
After a man has reformed it keeps him
busy trying to live down his past.
Patronizing doctors and lawyers comes
under the head of buying experience.
Why is it that baby is good natured IN
the morning when grown people are
grouchy?
1t is a great deal easier for the average
man to build a castle in the air than it is
for him to nail a board on his fence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
FROM OTHER PENS
NEW YoRK's SCANDAL.

NEW York. SCANDAL.
New Yorl's police scandal is the story
of no ordinary crime. 1t is a case in
which it devolves upon the press to
print the full essential facts as a So
cial duty, for the light they will throw
on the need of ceaseIess vigilance to
defeat the natural alliance between
crooked business and crooked politics.
There is in it also a lesson to the in
dividual on the swift corruption that
comes to the soul that becomes infected
with the passion for easy money"
Sifted to its last elements, that is all
there is in the horrible revelations OF
d rampant gambling traffic in New
York; of the partnership for graft and
murder of high officials with thugs and
gamblers; of a police department so
honeycombed with vice connivance that
it's natural functions are perverted into
a protection Of criminals-the grasping
effort of thousands for easy money.
Startling as is the arrest of Police Lieu
tenant Becker and what IT signifies, IL
probably touches only the fringe of the
situation. The suspicion is warranted
that the qualifications of the ilIegfti-
mate business go far, even to the
financing in large part by the same
means of Tammany Hall and the en-
richment of men high in it's authority.
The most amazing feature Of the whole
business is the apathy of Mayor Gay
nor and Police Commissioner Waldo
and their almost tender consideration
for Becker. The scandal must make
every large city wonder what an in
vestigation of it's police would show.
1t should at least make municipal
consider seriously the adop-
ton of the European practice of fire.
quent rotation in duties OF police Of
ficers, SO that the danger of alliances
with illegitimate traffic in the under
world will be reduced in a minimum
Los Angeles Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
KANSAS COMMENT
VIGILANCE Committee.

Law and order cries down vigilance
committees and the taking of law into
the hands of even responsible citi-
zens. But there have been times, on
the frontier, when the country was new
and before the law, as laid down in the
statute books, had had time to catch
Up, when it has seemed necessary. Just
now New York City has all the ear
frontier. Stories that come from the
metropolis are to the effect that the
established law is no protection to the
man who would attend to business of
his own. New York is in the hands ri
gun men like the gun men of the early
frontier day. Once there was talk Of
Abilene, Newton and Dodge City being
on the border line of outlawry, but civ
illzed New York far surpasses anything
they ever tried to do. In that city
gangs, in open streets and in sight and
maybe in conjunction with the police,
commit crime and get away, much
more openly than when the wilderness
was being slowly pushed back and adj
venturers were counted as part of the
population. Maybe New York needs a
vigilance committee.-Parsons Sun.
AND THEN THE RAIN COMES.
To talk of the weather is a gesture
OF primeval worship. Yet, when the
mercury crowds the top, the air
shrivels like a blast from Erebus.
the crinkling corn leaves curl. the
blood of the turnIp reeks and the
painting hound is filled with a climb
ing sorrOw-talk is the only welcome
| exercise But there is an element
of worship in thankfulness, for when
the crop prospects fade like "a with
cred moon smote by the fresh beam
of the springing day. aud nature
stands on the verge of her confine-
the poplar leaves show white. pigs
romp and squeal, little cyclones play
III the road, flies clinch on the cows.
the rains come. Then Kansas fields
conjure into crops that burst the bins.
| tax the trains and make or mar the
| markets. In the accounting of tall
| ents Kansas has doubled her share
and each year adds another.-L d. q.
in the Kansas Farmer.
REAL HERO AND HEROINE.
Want to hear about real hero and
| heroine? Well. let's get close to home.
| How about Dad and Mother? What
| George Washington and Abraham Lin
| coin did for their country they have
done for you and more too. Mother
has reared you from the time you first
squawked. She perhaps wore thin
clothes and did without pleasures in
| order that you might grow u a strong,
| healthy child. Father labored many a
| long hot day in order that you might go
to school and better your chances. Dad,
| as you call him, shut out pleasures and
| good times that his child might be bet
| te7 fitted to fight the fight of life. Dad
| and Mother may speak quality of En-
| glish that makes you blush, but if you
| do as much to better humanity as they
| have done you will have a right to critf-
| else them. However, in the meantime
| remember Father and Mother as your
| hero and Observation-Disclosures News
| Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

All records for fast travelling are
held by the lie.
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Neither are some people nearly SO
innocent as they look.
T. y y
Each mans vices are pretty gener-
ally known; not so with his virtues.
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Strangers have the great advantage
of not being bothered with each 9TH
er's troubles.
%
Every baby has the distinction of
being the most marvellous one in the
world in the minds of few people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

gubsca 5bers 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
ter cents a week or thirty cents
month Cby r-ail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the state Journal VIII be
to you like a daily letter rom nome.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

received by Governor Stubbs. as show
ing that the Republicans CT Kansas
want a third party, and had not as
much use for a man who was attempt
ing to maintain his Republican regu-
larity. Maybe 80. But IL a consider
able portion of the Republicans in the
state want a new party, why don't
they come outf1at-footed and organize
one? That's their privilege.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

With the aid of the Republican in
surgents, the Democratic majority in
the house of representatives succeeded
In passing the wool tariff bill over the
presidents veto. under a procedure
that is contrary to all the rules and
parliamentary presidents that prevail
in that body. The Democrats in the
house are working overtime in their
efforts to make political capital but
the people generally are too wise now
aday to be fooled by any such political
trick as was pulled off in this instance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

Prompt should be the response of
the people over all the land to the ap-
peal for aid that has been made In be-
half of the victims of the Mississippi
flood. If these flood-sufferers had
been located in some distant and for
eign country, their wants would have
been supplied long ago by the gener-
Gus people of this nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If a carving knife can cut ham what
can a haircut?
(LittIe Lulu will sing that famous
lullaby: 'She saw a carpet in the
yard and SO she beat IT'D
the door was a-jar?
(If you can't sing this, whistle IT'D
If couple of letters got into an ar
gument would the mail-box?
Otis the heat, (hic) my dear.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

[From the New York Press.1
What makes a hero is women to be-
1ieve it.
Principles are like soup-always filling
but never satisfying.
A man has a hobby so as to feel con-
tempt for everybody else's.
When a girl has pretty ankles it's a.
sign she thinks that isn't all.
Fathers grow more and more useful to
the family by getting more and more
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

As was to have been expected. Jack
johnson reconsidered his determine
ton to retire from the fighting game
as soon as some sufficiently easy marks
showed disposition to guarantee him
a large enough purse to attract his or
any other mans attention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

A Denver minister says it is a sin
to break an egg. And such an opin-
ion from a clergyman is quite normal.
Every egg that is broken means one
less chicken in the world. If there is
anything gentleman of the cloth rel
ishes more than chicken it is more
chicken and an extra helping of yell
low gravy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
run away

1t is now claimed that automobiles and
easy living are causing American wom-
en- TO lose their slenderness and grace
of figure. This probably comes from
some dyspeptic who hasn't laughed
since the last time he saw a fat woman
riding a bicycle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

DR. Biddle, superintendent of the
state hospital for the insane near this
city, lends his powerful voice to the
chorus that is demanding more strin-
gent marriage laws for Kansas. Such
laws, and their complement, a more
stringent divorce law, would be in the
nature of a reform worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

That Governor Wilson is trifie new
to. the major political game is made
apparent again by his expressing vexa-
ton at the reports that an enormous
campaign fund is to re raised for the
prom otion of his campaign. Such an
experienced politician and reformer as
Colonel Roosevelt never worries over
trif1e like that. The bigger the cam
paign fund he has the better it suits
hi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

If the men higher up in the New
York police scandal are known, it is
the first time in the history of the
country that any of such gentry have
been discovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

At any rate, and because of their
protracted session, the congressman
are making something of a noise like
they were earning their stipends for
this wear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

Inasmuch as almost everybody is
wearing 'em now. the silk-stocking
vote may decide the presidential cen
test in November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

Nor do the Japanese seem to be at
all superstitious over the number 10.
They propose to bury their late en-
peror on that day of September.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
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
gAnixation for the exclusive afternoon
notification IN Topeka
The news Is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

Orozco's mother who would prefer
20 see her son dead than have him sur
render to Madero will probably have
her wish gratif1ed. unless the notorious
Mexican rebel chief soon decides to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

Isn't this a cruel world? Many of the
hefeated candidates at the recent pri-
Snaries will have to keep right on work
ing for a living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

Old General Prosperity is certainly
on a return march. Railroad officials
are predicting a big car shortage be-
fore long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

A Washington newspaper has ana
lyzed the discrepancy between the
votes given for the Roosevelt cleo
rors'' in this state and those that were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

But there is really no chance that
Orozco will get what is really coming
to him. If he remained in Mexico after
the blowoff, he might be injured, but by
crossing the line he can get a Chau-
taUQua contract
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

post commissary.
It. seems that we were wrong about
the Mikado's funeral, and that the
other month.
The strange thing about the New
York murder case is that a majority of
the thugs implicated are of Jewish
birth. The Children of Israel, as race,
are a remarkably peaceable people, and
this is the first case, since a gang of
them lynched a Carpenter in Palestine,
wherein Jews have attracted any atten-
ton on the defendants side of muir
der.
Il has been discovered that the base
ment Of an Erie. kan, church has been
used as a poker club for several
months. Dodd Gaston's alibi is perfect;
he hasn't been in Erie since that sum-
mer when he saw it sold openly" etc.
From the advance advertisements of
fall lan-zhe-ray, we might gather that
the white goods dealers were banking
heavily upon mild fall weather.
Hondo Murphy says he is going to
take his vacation just as soon as the
friend from whom he has been borrow
ing a suit case for the past ten years,
buys new one. THAT old seven-Quart
turkey OF his has never been fit to
carry since I dropped it into an Okla
hcma river several years ago." says
Hondo, and I wouldn't be seen in East
Atchison with it."
, An optimist might get a crun1b of
comfort from this crust: None of Tip
O'NeiPs porch climbers will have an OPP
pcrtunfty to steal one from the Kaws
on the home lot until next Tuesday.
There is vast difference between the
Populist and the Third Term party
platforms. The Populist platform con-
tains the word we"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15
RYTHE WAY
sx HARVEY PARsoNA

That shrill sound from the southwest
is Orozco whistling for the station
where he gets off at"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

The soldiers haven't received any
wages since June, but a soldiers wages
are so small that it isn't any serious
loss to the soldiers, providing theil
cigarette makin's are furnished by the
post commissary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-15

It. seems that we were wrong about
the Mikado's funeral, and that the
sexton will think it over for still an
other month.
Evening star., 1912-07-15

Athletics. Jack Copmbs made a miser-
able showing against the Red Sox and
was finally taken out after he had tried
in vain to find the plate. But instead of
custom he was given big cheer. The
fans evidently remembered that Jack had
pitched many q good game and that he
had assisted in. bringing success to the
club
Evening star., 1912-07-15
HOPE TO DEFEAT AMERICANS.
English Lawn Tennis Team Plan.
ming to Call Again.

NEW YORK, July 15 = Negotiations
which it is expected will again lead to the
deciding of the international matches be-
tween the British Isles team and the
Americans being played in this country
are now under way. The English Lawn
Tennis Association has already decided to
send team to Australia, whether or not
1t is to stand as the challenging nation
for the Davis cup. Gordon Inglis, who
has officially represented the Australasian
association in London, was successful in
having this action taken the latter part
of last month. The success of the British
Isles against the Frenchmen has sealed
the matter.
There is no secret as to the fact that
Charles p. Dixon, who so ably led the
British Isles team in the recent interna-
tional ties at Folkestone, was bitterly dis
appointed over the outcome of the matches
against the Americans on the courts of
the West Side Tennis Club of this city last
September More than once in London
Dixon has expressed himself as certain
that with another opportunity he could
win against William A. Larned and the
the Britons believe that the time is ripe
for another conquest of the American
courts possibly the winning of the Ameri-
can championship at Newport. similar to
the clean sweep which the Doherty broth
ers made in 1903. AS the matter stands,
ii seems only necessary for the diplomatic
part Of the program to be fulfilled to as
sure the appearance Of the Britons here
for the final ties for the Davis cup.
Evening star., 1912-07-15

while his seasons average is only .225
Yet. in spite of this, he is one of the
leading run-getters and base-stealers OF
the league. In the twenty games with
Portsmouth he has gotten eighteen hits
and scored nineteen runs. There is little
doubt this Philadelphia product will be
we'll to the front this year in the Vir-
of the circuit
When Lynchburg let John o'Brien. the
Baltimore pitcher, get away this spring,
although it was generally thought here
the boy. had little future, a star seems
to have slipped from the Virginia
League, for with a. second division team
has managed to get through sixteen
games with only three defeats. He has
been called on several times to keep
games saved and is credited with eight
victories. In addition to this, O'Brien has
fielded perfectly his twenty mine chances.
O'Brien has yielded an average of five
hits a game. That he does not attempt
the fact that his strike-outs average only
81 to the game. His control has been
good, for he has. walked an average of
IT men a game, while he has only hit
one batter and has not turned loose a
wild pitch in his sixteen games. Fred
Bruck, who went from Lynchburg to
Columbus in the American Association,
touted O'Brien as youngster with more
than he had here in 1911, when he was
regarded as one of the best pitchers in
the Virginia League, but this touting did
not induce the local team to hold on to
O'Brien despite the fact that he was the
only pitcher on the Lynchburg staff this
spring who won. more than one game
for the Shoemakers.
Evening star., 1912-07-15

Pitcher Adams OF the Pirates had. his
sore arm treated by Bonesetter Reese At
Youngstown, Ohio, last week.
Evening star., 1912-07-15
TAKE NINE MATCHES.
Norfolk Tennis Players Win That
Many From Washington Men.

NORFOLK, Va.,-July 15.-The absence
Of Connie Doyle was in the main respon-
sible for the defeat suffered by Washing
ton tennis players here yesterday The
local players took total of nine matches
out of the twelve played from the men
from the Capital.
The general play Of the men was ex-
cellent and one or two of the matches
decided partook of real championship
class.
In brilliancy Of play and closeness. the
match between H G. Whitehead and j.
Saunders Taylor of Norfolk and Harold
E. Doyle and Lee McClung, treasurer Of
the United States. the Washington pair.
tied with the match between Nat {.
Bundy and c. F. Mcintosh Of Norfolk
against L. /. Doyle and Al G. Howard
of Washington. Ii both contests two out
of three sets were required.
The summaries are as follows:
Singles Oncompleted matches Of Saturday)-J
Saunders Taylor, Norfolk. defeated AL Howard
Washington. $40. go. 81. Walter H. Taylor,
jr, Norfolk defeated L. l. Doyle, Washington,
90. $40. TO. Walter Dunlop. Washington
defeated Charles Tunstall. Norfolk, 6-1, +6
6-.
Doubles-H G. Whitehead and j. Saunders Tay.
lor. Norfolk. defeated Harold E. Doyle and Lee
McCung, Washington, ST, S-6. So. Nat C.
Bundy and G. F. Mcintosh, Norfolk. defeated
L. l. Doyle and AL Howard. Washington, ga,
ST. 8-3. Walter H. Taylor, jr. and Richard
Tunstall Norfolk, defeated John Graves and Wal
ter Dunlop, Washington, So. 80. Washington
Rec and NJ. A. Agelasto. Norfolk. defeated Arthur
HELEN and l.. A. Fisher. Washington, 60, 81.