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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
.AYHAWKER JOT.S

Pardon the confusion, dearie, writes
the editor of the Bucklin Banner, but,
Whenever L hear of Nat Goodwin,
don't know whether he. is admired
because he has been many times
married, or so many times divorced.
Speaking of educated animals, says
the Elk City Sun, John Slocum has a
big house cat that persists in washing
the face of a white Spitz dog. John
says that about every day the cat will
get the dog up in a corner where it
can't get away and proceeds to wash
its face in approved cat style. The
dog occasionally tries to break away
but a scratch on the nose or a cuff
on the ear serves to keep it quiet un-
til the bath is over.
This story is told on Fort Scott
street car conductor He received
three or four IS bills and his supply
of change was growing low. n woman
approached the car with a small baby
the woman on the car and placed the
gO-cart on the rear platform. The
lady handed him a SO bill. The con-
ductOr, looking at the carriage, said:
rs that the smallest you have p
why, yes" the young mother replied
emphatically, i've only been married
IL months"
Recently Charles Sessions, secretary
of state and Prof. Henderson, of the
state superintendent office, were in
clay center on ScnOOl 1ldlleTS- w ME
here, Henderson, who owns a lot of
land way out in Rawlins county, said
that he got the first crop off his land
this winter that he had secured for
four years, a crop of ice. And it was
a record breaker. He has q big pond
on his land and farmers from miles
around came there to haul away a
part of the first crop the place had
produced in all that time. He was re-
joicing over this first crop until Ses-
sions asked what they would do next
summer for water having carted it
all away this winter. That was anOth-
er story, which Henderson is prob
ably still figuring out.-Clay Center
Times.
Told by the HoIton Signal: A Hol-
ton man whose name we dassent tell,
without a doubt holds the record in
Holton as an early riser. The other
morning one of the mem bers of the
family wanted to take the morning
the night before to be up with the
lark, that breakfast would be ready
before train time. There was some
thing the matter with the clocks about
the house as there usually is on such
occasions and the alarm did not go
off, but bright and early he was up
and had things doing" After break
fast it was noticed that daylight was
a little slow in coming and a distress
what time it was. While the deceitful
alarm clock loudly licked off the Sec
onds in the stiffness of the morning
the sleepy voice of the night central
came like a shock to the listener at
the other end. Fifteen minutes past
two" The party made the seven
thirty train with very little difficulty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21

in and say hello. I'm going away now.
where's the baby?"
boy"
And named Jim," she said carelessly.
There's some money in his room there
IN little buckskin sack under the pill
low. It's his, so you can use it. Good
Dy- L wouldn't tell him I sent after
YOU Men don't have to know every
| thing, YOU know
Il won't tell him anything said the
Gomez"
"Glad?" Jet laughed mirthlessly.
Just watch his eyes when he sees you.
listen, you are the mother of Jim's
baby! 1 meant to jump your claim
And L couldn't. 1t was all nicely staked
out, and guarded. He even told me YOU
made better pies than mine. Yours
pictures in the inside pocket of that
coat, and long curl of hair around it.
Don't you worry. You send for the
baoy quick and call this home. So
long"
She stopped at a sound from the
other room, the sound of some one
waking. stretching tiredly on a creaky
bed. signing, and cursing softly 10
himself at pain. Then they heard him
call peevishly longingly:
Anybody there?"
Jet shrugged. her shoulders and
smiled. and walked out of the shack.
shutting the door after her softly She
could hear Jim's laugh as she went
doWn after her pony. The staked
claim was proved up now.-(Copyright
1917 oy Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21

because any other kind of a primary
would not be safe-guarded against the
participation of those other than Re
publicans, the Roosevelt managers
have characterized such contentious as
specious. They have held them up as UNI
worthy excuses for depriving the Repub-
Hcan voters of their right to express their
choice in the matter of presidential
candidates. They pooh poohed the
idea that Democrats would want tc
take part in such Republican primar-
les; that there was no danger on this
score at all. And yet, at the first state
presidential primary to be held; ON the
first occasion when the Republican
voters were given a chance to express
their presidential preferences, and they
expressed them against Colonel Roose-
Welt, his managers blame the result In
a. measure on Democratic participation
in that primary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

a baby is too anxious to share its in
Somnia.
Generally speaking, the game bag is
large enough
Sometimes a Firm Person is too anxious
to prove it by fighting
Time flies so fast it seems some one is
always urging us to register
If you have to be rescued too often,
people will get tired and let you sink.
A mans political opinions are less i'm
portant than the way he does his work
One shouldn't get his proud ancestral
name into trouble in order to defend it
An average employer can exert political
influence among his men if he doesn' {
try.
There are so many pessimists optim-
list has a hard time attracting attention
as prophet.
Boys can go barefooted half the time
and still wear out more shoes than any
other class of people.
1t must be a great strain to an officer
of the militia to have to work for a liv-
ing when he isn't on duty.
What you did on your last job amounts
TO a good deal less than how you handle
the one you are on now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Ism 1t queer quirk in us that while
we women complain because there is a
double standard of morality for men and
women, 1T is we ourselves who have done
the most to raise and sustain it?
It Is we who shut our eyes with noble
1orbearance upon any unfortunate little
Peccadlllos' on the part of the other sex,
II the sinner be sufficiently fnterestiner
! and well off. 1t is we who are willing
nay, sometimes eager-to have the man
win past for husband for our in
nocent young daughter-we who are glad
TO get that fascinating man with the most
our functions
And, on the other hand, it is we who
willingly believe every cruel bit of gossip
against the members or our own sex
we VINO are ever ready to deny our sis
IerS the Denef1t of the doubt, and to con-
denim them utterly for one sim no matter
now great the temptation to which thew
yleIoed- 1t is we who have made the old
law that woman who mas once fallen
may never come back" Praises be to
this age Of forbearance that this law is
no longer SO binding as it once was but
II is women who made it, and women
who are still trying to enforce it,
A woman was speaking to me the other
DAY about a home which had been broken
up by the husbands devotion to an I'M
married woman. II think girl who goes
after man like that is inexcusable," she
said.
do you think such affairs are always
the womans fault?' 81 questioned
Yes, | think they usually are, she
v
AS business woman, I have seen more
or less of such affairs, and my experience
has certainly not been that they were
usually the woman's fault.
Mind you, don't cQndone the woman's
sin. but 1 want the man to receive equal
If not greater condemnation. For the girl
is shining against woman whom she
does not know and has no particular rea-
son to love, while the man is SHINING
against a woman whom he promised to
cherish and love until death us do part"
and who is probably the mother of his
children. 49,
Loyalty to any abstract thing is almost
always stronger in men. Patriotism, loyal
ty to business, and even devotion to a
place is more powerful motive in a man
than a woman. Perhaps this is why we
are so painfully lacking in sex loyalty.
I wish woman could cultivate that quail
ity. I often hear women deliberately
slandertng their own sex in favor of the
other, saying, for instance, that they
think men are more moral and clever,
etc, and / am ashamed of them. When
women respect their own sex more, 1t
will be more respected. When women are
willing to judge the sin OF man and wo-
man alike, and, mind you, don't mean
too leniently-just alil1e-this double stan
dard of morality against which we so Of
ten complain, will begin to totter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21

SAFEGUARDING THE CANAL
The opposition that has developed in
the United states senate to the fortifica-
ton of the Panama canal has taken the
the part of this country would incense
england and probably lead to dangerous
International troubles. An effectuaI
qu1etus has been put on this argument.
however, by letter, read in the senate.
written by John Hay. who aided in draft
ing the Hay-Pauncefote treaty with Eng
land dealing with the canal project.
MI. Hay said in his letter: The whole
theory of the treaty is that the canal is
to be American. The enormous cost cf
construction is to be borne by the United
states alone. When constructed it is 10
be exclusively the property of the JTnite,I
states and is to be managed controlled
and defended by it,"
So there will be no trouble with Eng
land on account of the Notifications. says
the Cleveland Leader. The work of pre-
pairing the defenses has been going on
with the construction OF the canal A
regiment OF infantry has long been sta
TONED in the canal zone. Everythlng
there is under the control OF army offi-
GERS. II there were to have been a pro-
test from any other nation against fortf-
n&ation 1t would have been made long
ago, for all the world knows what is be-
ing done on the Panama isthmus.
what is really back Of the opposition TO
the military plans for the canal is the oh
lection based on theory and sentiment to
the expenditure of any considerable sum
of money in preparation for possible war.
1t is the old protest that if the country
ships, it can not be involved in war
But the canal will be fortified Just the
same. The common sense of the Ameri-
can people will not tolerate such a COL
possible the seizure OF Tripoli by Italy
Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
ADVERTISE TALKS
BIZ WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

The Memo corset has built its fame.
both at home and abroad. through per-
sistent newspaper advertising. SO per cent
of all of the money spent for all kinds OF
publicity has gone into newspapers. and
the result is a large, successful and con-
stantly increasing business.
The first Memo advertisement (which
occupied a space of rs lines single column
10, 1899, in the New York Herald; and
Hops Bros.-the manufa cturers OF Memo
corsets-have been consistent newspaper
advertisers ever since.
While other factors than the adyertis-
ing have necessarily entered into the sue
cess of Memo corsets, Messrs. Kops
Brothers admit that they could never
have attained the success they have had
it not BEEN for the liberal use OF daily
newspapers. Mind you. they have used
newspapers almost to the exclusion OF all
other advertising media.
This is not meant as a reflection on 9TH
err forms of publicity, but it is offered as
A. lesson to advertisers who want to
reach success by the quickest route, viz.
through daily newspaper publicity.
A recent achievement of the Memo bust
ness is it's adoption in Paris by the fam
Gus Galleries Lafayette, one of the most
IA shionable establishments in Paris, and.
what is more to the point, this store sells
Memo corsets in quantities not exceeded
by even the largest stores In the United
States.
At the present time, the Memo factory
has an ultimate capacity OF 1900 corsets
daily, representing a retail value Of near
ly $4,000 day, or $15,oO0.0Oo a year. This
is based on the average retail selling
price of over 500. When you consider
that this is a speciality business, the mag
nitude of these figures is apparent.
In the latter years of Memo success.
Mr.. J. w Morton, jr.. has piloted the
ship, through the advertising agency
which bears his name
The agency does not let its work end
at drawing commissions on the business
it places-it is a sales organization, thor
oughly informed about the Memo busi-
Ill to- hror oh IL n ho1r L.
so many ways that Messrs. Hops Brothers
regard it as one of the chief factors and
strongest aids in the development Of the
business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21

Beveridge refers to Col. Roosevelt
as the iron man." but it is a popular
not scientifically correct. Other. and
yet lighter metals might be found in
the amalgam of his composition
The zap sheriff who shot a defense
less farmer while hunting Nebraska
outlaws, may not be punished for his
crime, but the chances that he will be-
come popular hero in that particular
vicinity are few.
The Nebraska sheriff was so DANCED
anxious to get the reward offered for
the criminals, that he wouldn't let
contribute to the possibility that some
other officer might beat him to first
money.
1t is called the Vernal Equinox,
but about the only visible green thing
is the Saint Pat neckties which few
have neglected OF discard.
This department is not particularly
crazy about Hon Stubbs but enter
tains no hatred toward him. There
fore the simp bearing a petition to
put Hon Roscoe on as V1ce-presl-
dental candidate, may as we'll save
time by avoiding this office.
This department has no objection to
a practical joke on Stubs. but there
is a limlt-there is a limit.
In some portions of the country,
the potence of an equinox may be
Appropriated ahead of date. but in
Kansas the only sure thing is that it
will bring a stretch of unsatisfactory
weather.
Some Atchison wop is writing
threatening letters to Bale Waggen-
er, but they don't scare what is left of
Bale. For a man who has had so
many removed. Bale Waggener has
more than any other man in Kansas
Senator Bristow, who has been for
some time shouting his theories from
an upper window of the LaFollette
flats. is now looking for the fire es-
cape.
Mutual ignorance of the subject can
keep an argument going longer than
any other cause.
Most girls close their eyes while be-
ing kissed-but after taking a long,
thoughtful slant at the average man,
you can't blame 'em.
The principal difference between
Emperor William and Emporia Will
liam is in the syllable: each is OBJ
sessed with the idea that his way is
the only right one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES.


When selfish man at nightfal1 grabs a
good seat in the train,
And he views the fellows hanging on the
straps in mild disdain,
He is sometimes forced to yield his seat
to one that's sweet but frail,
For the female of the species is more
deadly than the male
Man's tfmid heart is bursting with the
things he must not say
When the mistress of the household finds
a vacuum in his pay.
He might possibly explain it to his friend
along the rail.
But the female of the species is more
deadly than the male.
When the winsome woman lawyer to the
Jury makes appeal
On behalf of some offender with heart
as hard as steel,
She will win the jury over with her sweet
pathetic tale,
For the female of the species is more
deadly than the male.
The enterprising burglar who attacks a
house at night,
And laughs at every effort of the man
who makes a fight,
VIII go headlong through a window when
woman's on his trail;
For the female with the screeches is
more deadly than the male.
James W. MCGEE, in the New York
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
fFrom the Chicago News.I

tFrom the Chicago News.1
rolling stone gathers some hard
knocks.
Small men feel big when standing on
their dignity.
It's his running expenses that keep
many man behind.
A professional politician is man who
has no candid opinions
If you want other people to look down
on you look up to them
There are times when a good bluff is as
effective as great riches
In the game of hearts, when a man IS
in doubt he should lead diamonds
Dancing would be awfully hard work if
it wasn't for the fun of the thing.
Every girl with money looks like a ge.
rich quick proposition to some young
man
No man can profit altogether by the ex-
perience of others. He must buy some of
his own.
man can remember to his dying day
all the things he learned at college-out-
side his text books.
If man is too proud to beg and too
honest to steal he should leave politics 10
those who are fitted for it,
A girl is awfully disa ppointed shortly
after marriage to discover that her hus-
band is merely an ordinary man like her
brother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
[From the Philadelphia Record

1t Is a strange thing, but a baldheaded
actor often has a good part.
Dinl-.Don't you think the times ar.
ripe?'' Gink-"More than that. They're
rotten"
When playing poker the sons raise
sometimes makes the old man feel hot
under the collar
places. I had to send my son SO TO-DAY
He was robbed" Hank-"Robbed ye
saw" Hiram-"Yes He writ me he was
held up in the examinations"
Wight seems shame about that
aviator. They say drink did it." WakR-
Il thought the papers said he was A
abstainerT' Wigg-"Naw. Even his VIII.
admits he took drop too much
Blobbs-.aThese are terrible davs. WIZ
a mans time Is not his own; some bod,
always has their hand in. his pocket n
no. Why don't you get a divorce7''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
FROM OTHER PENS
OUR YOUNG COUNTRY.


The man who rode up the Platte valley
with the news of Abraham LincoIn's fire.
election as president of the United States
has just died in Chicago at the age of o.
What prodigious train of events fol-
lowed in the wake of his flying steed I!
What momentous monuments to political
and industrial freedom and progress have
been reared in those 81 years!
We are SO often reminded of the youth
fulness of our country in ways like this
What is half a century in the life OF a
great nation? What, even. IS the fun
span of this mans years y? He was an
old man, palsied, in fact, by the weight
of his years, though others are daily our
living him. But those 81 years to the
United States. to the world. in fact. IN
point OF permanent achievement and en-
during deeds. stand out as the golden age
of civilization. In them one OF the
miracles of social evolution was wrought
race of human beings IS converte
from slavery into fullest freedom and
lifted to a round of social and industrial
advancement which makes its history
unique in the annals of the OCCASIONALLY
Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many people hate others simply
because they're successful.
Y x
In order to paint a picture true to
life a large variety of unattractive col
ors must be used.
X
1t is also possible for an uneducated
person to stand we'll to the head of the
class in the school of experience.
y =
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed boy, who, when told about anything
unusual, remarked: Say, do you see
any green in my eyes?''
y y
When a man and woman say that
their love is of the platonic sort it's q
pretty good Indication that they will
soon get married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
COLLEGE, MEN AND INcoMEs.

A professor credited to Cornell proposes
how seriously one may only guess-tha.
college graduates organize to better their
chances as wage earners. IL Is the labor
union principle, without the union justt-
fication.
College men probably do not earn a.
much as they should: certainly not
much they would like. But does any
one believe they do not earn as much as
they deserve?
AT the worst the condition OF youn,
graduates who find themselves compelled
to work for small incomes is a natural
one. They merely sell their la Dor in she
common market in competition with all
others who have labor to sell. They ara
entitled to the advantage OF no artificial
restriction. even were it possible TO &c
cure through organization or otherwise
such an advantage.
The sooner college men learn that the
way to increase their income is to de-
serve larger ones the better II Will be-
The possession of degrees entities them
to no consideration which their merits
cannot COMMUNICATIONS Plain Deal
er. ....-..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
HUNOR OF THE Day

| Mr.. Any dear. your butcher gives you
short weight for your money. Mrs. A
But consider, my dear, the long wait you
| gave him for his.-Exchange.
! Diplomat.-She-Wha do you mean by
saying that Elsa is more or less pretty
He-Well, she's more pretty than most
girls and less pretty than you!-Simplicis-
sinus, Munich.
Guess What.-Tom-Yes, Miss Roxley
and are strangers now. I've been asked
not to call there again. Jack-Tll bet old
Roxley had a hand in that. Tom-Well-
er-not hand exactly.-Exchange
Chumpley-Jenkins. my man, these
apartments seem less roomy than when
I moved into them in the spring. Jenkins
Yes, sir. Quite so. sir. But You are now
wearing your winter Undertaking, sir
Exchange.
Old Lawyer-Why do you feel that your
client will lose his case? Have you ex-
hausted every means at your disposal to
all the means at his Observation-Disclosures
phia Press.
Stern Parent-Quite so, quite so. You
tell me that you have proposed to my
daughter: but-er-you say nothing about
your position. Nervous Suitor-My posi-
Iieve-on my knees, you know.-Tit-Bits
Whats the matter with your wife:
She's all broken up lately" She got a
terrible Jar What has happened %
why, she was assisting at a rummage
sale, took off her new hat and somebody
sold it for 35 cents. louisville Courier
Journal.
why was it you never married again,
Aunt SaIlie?" inquired Mrs. McCIane of
an old colored woman in West Virginia.
"'Deed, Miss Ellie replied the old wo-
man earnestly. dat daid nigger's wuth
noah to me dan live one L gifts
pension. March Lippincott's.
Il believe I'll give that poor stray cat
niece of meat What, and pauperize the
cat! Always help the poor to help them
selves Scatter some crumbs on the side
walk They may attract a bird for the
cat to charlottesville Courier-Journal.
Hello Rummel 1 hear you had your
watch stolen the other day?" Yes, but
the thief is already caught Just think
the fool took it to the pawnshop and
there they Immediately recognized it as
mine and detained him. "-FlIegende
BIaetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
DAFFYDLLS
RY q. NoALL

How is it that the best ships cook
always makes a mess of his meals :?
q should say not, John Henry. You
get no more money this week. L gave
you a dime Monday.)
Iustrator2
(Put that wheelbarroW down. What
do you know about machinery?)
If the Kaw should overflow it's
banks would it follow that the Cotton
wood?
ca flood. A flood.. Ny kingdom for
q raftl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21

Mr.. Carnegie evidently has no liking
for a membership in the Ananias club.
He beat Colonel Roosevelt to it in dc
nying the story that the colonel had
asked him as long ago as last No
vember to finance his campaign for the
Republican presidential nomination
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21

Old demand and supply gets some
thing of a whack in the solar plexus
in the statistics showing that during
the year 1911 there was a record break
ing production of sugar. while the prices
for it were materially higher than they
were when much smaller productions
nreVailed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21

President Taft declares that all his
administration wants is a square deal.
Those most persistent in denying this
to the Taft administration are the very
men who began the alleged square
DEAF movement in the Republican
party Il few years ago.