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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

BILE at all in disposing of their pro-
ducts at the best possible prices.
Particularly does this apply to truck
gardeners. The opportunities for high
ly remunerative and quicker returns
in this branch of farming are larger
by far than they are in any other.
The only difficulty is in finding
market Most of the Kansas garden
ers rely solely for their market on the
town or city nearest them. The result
is that such a market is frequently
glutted when the several vegetable
seasons are at their height. And the
prices become so low that it scarcely
pays such a farmer to bring his
truck to town.
There is always a market to the
north of Kansas for the products OF
the truck garden. No one farmer
through his own efforts is likely to
have the time or to take the trouble
to hunt for it. But a number of truck
farmers, cooperating with each other
and having an alert selling agent to
dispose of their products can easily
reach these markets where the prices
are always fair.
Leavenworth gardeners are doing
this very thing. There is no reason
why the gardeners in every locality in
the state should not do likewise, and
make their gardening bring in big re-
turns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
QUAKER fluctuations.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1

TFron the Philadelphia Record.1
Life is a grind, but it at least sharpens
a mans wits.
One way to prevent your feet from go
ing to sleep is to cultivate somnambulisIn.
About the only man in the world who is
satisfied with his job is the self-made
man.
II seems the irony of fate that while the
grass widow is in clover the real widow
should be in weeds.
mo. Maude, dear; when measles break
out in prison it doesn't necessarily follow
that the guards ought to catch them"
Hoax-"The ice dealer ought to always
he happy" Joax-"Prithee, why?" Hoax
Zs'WeIi you can't have It too hot for him
in summer, or too cold in winter"
.sYou will never find his equal" re-
marked the friend of the bereaved widow
consoiingly. Perhaps not" replied the
widow, "but I shall endeavor to do my
best"
Observation-Disclosures, orderer some soup
an hour ago. When do you suppose it will
get here7" Waiter-'sWeli, 1t was turtle
soup. sir, and you know how slow turtles
are"
Mr.. Buggins-'Why don't you let me
nav cash for this hat of yours instead OF
waiting to have it charged?' Mrs Bug
gins-.'While we are waiting an entirely
new style might come In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
THE MOST soOIALIzED NATION

A German laborer may begin life
attended by a physician or nurse paid
| by the state: he is christened by a
state clergyman: is taught the rudi-
ments of learning and his handicraft
by the state, writes Samuel p Orth
| in the Worlds Work for June. He
is drafted by the state into the army,
devoting two of his best years to the
drill sergeant. If he falls i'll, his suf-
fering is assuaged by the knowledge
that his wife and children are cared
for, and that his expenses will be
paid during illness, and he spends his
convalescence in a sumptuous state
hospital. If he falls victim to an &C
cident, the ample insurance. even if he
be permanently injured, is a balm to
his suffering. If he gets out of work,
city and state unite to find or make
work for him. If he wanders from
town to town in search of work, the
cities through which he passes offer
him free hospitality. If he wishes
to move to another part of town, the
municipal bureau will be glad to help
him find a house, or even lend him
money to get one of his own.
If he is in dispute with his en-
ployer, the government furnishes
court of arbitration. If he is sued
by his master or wishes to sue him,
the state has provided a special in
dustrial court. If he is in trouble
the city places a lawyer at his dis
posal.
And it is in this land of cautious
caretaking for the humber folk that
Social-Democracy casts half the So
cialist votes for the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHTsoT GLOBE.

We have observed a number of WASH
ties that should be.
You may have observed that good
many go broke in their search for bar
gains.
Burbank should arrange to have the
strawberry season play return engage
ments.
While the poets prattle of them not at
all, there are homes of kind the chill
dren are very glad to leave.
Women are not inclined to compete
with carpenters, but every economical
woman feels she can ,spaint furniture.
If Shakespeare knows the number of
people who quote his lines incorrectly, his
shade must have a lasting Crouch.
What has become of the old-fashioned
farmer who got rid of the surplus of cats
by turning them loose on the neighbors'
premises?
Shoulder braces are about as effective as
hair tonic, and there are a number of
other uncertainties in this sphere of sor-
row and sunshine.
There are so many people willing to
help crook straighten UP. 1t is COM
mendable work, no doubt, but why
shouldn't he help himself?
81 used to be some bicycle rider, with a
craving for century runs. but in other re-
spects never cared a great deal for hard
labor. ''-Rufe Hoskins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
.AYHAWKER .JOTS

This is unusual OF the II graduates
of the Lyons high school only seven
were young women.
If there was anything in a name
Miss Mary Ice of Cedar. Marion coun-
ty, would be the right kind of girl
to court in the summer time.
These are the days, points out the
Lyons Republican. when the small boy
hunts half a day to get enough fish
worms to catch one small fish. The big
boys do the same thing.
Buck Sawyer is quoted by the Blue
Mound Sun as having remarked: Eyes,
Uncle Buzz certainly has an up-to-
date motor car. 1t is even paid for
with next years money.
As the Alma Signal says: A man OF
woman who will sit through a public
entertainment under a three foot hat
has but little consideration for others.
One of the chief characteristics of .
gentleman or a lady is consideration
for others.
They are telling this one on our pop
ular merchant, John Dohrmann, re-
lates the Hudson Journal: A week or
two ago he went to the country to
plant some corn for Otto Hitz- But
for some unknown reason the coru
John is supposed to have planted never
came up. Now they claim he forgot
to fill his planter box
A Clement couple prayed d JOKE OB
their friends last month, reports the
Florence Bulletin. They sent out in
vitations for their wedding to be held
on May s. Then they decided they
couldn't wait that long and were mar
ried on April IL. Or maybe the joke
was on the couple as the wedding pres
ents were probably less numerous.
An Atchison man has always main
tanned that he can tell, after hearing
a strange woman talk, whether or not
she is married, tells the Atchison Globe
He has made the boast good so many
times that he has been prevailed upon
to tell his secret. He says a married
woman will speak of my rug" my
dining room. etc. while an unmarried
one will say 1.-The" rug, the dining
room, etc.
An Atchison man. relates the Atchi-
son Globe, had a set Of false teeth
made for himself about five years ago
which fitted him so poorly that he
would not wear them. and he had an
other set made that proved to be COM
Portable. The mans wife had her
teeth pulled last winter and she is SO
economical that she considered it
sinful extravaganza to have a new set
made for herself, as long as there was
a. perfectly good set of teeth lying
around the house. So she is wearing
her husbands discarded set of teeth,
even though they fit her worse than
they did him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
HU1NOR or THE DAY

your wife seems to be very angry.
Eyes" whats the trouble" ct didn't
inquire. That only makes words."-De-
troit Free Press.
Charity must necessarily begin at home
when It wants to cover a multitude OF
sins.-Puck.
1T see by the paper that the servant
problem has been solved" Nonsense.
If it had been solved all the papers would
have out extras. louisville Courier
Journal
Maude-Pve something to tell you I'm
engaged to Jack. Ethel-I am not sur
prised, Jack never could say NO. Dos
ton Transcript.
Teacher Ito little boyl-whats a suburb
anite9 Little Boy-A suburbanite Is a
man who lives in the city and sleeps in
the Countrywide.
Perk-See, Maria, you didn't tell anybody
that secret told you last night, did yoU7
Maria--Why, no! You see, didn't know
II was secret.-Judge.
"wombat says his wife is his rient
hand" ''Well?" Sometimes he doesn't LET
his right hand know what his left hand
is doing. Herald.
is done talking that would like to snsaE
to her? 1 will wait out here on the rsI-
lery." You will wait out on the raIIerv7
Man, have seen it proDhesied that next
winter is going to be more than orcIinarII1r
severe."-Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

A very self important young woman was
being discussed by two of her acquaint-
ances.
IT avoid her when can" said one OF
wrong way
Mercy, I don't pay as much attention
to her as all that laughed the other
woman; "she just amuses me-"
1t wouldn't take very much thought,
would 1T, to tell which of these two wom-
en- gets the more pleasure and comfort
out of life?
think life is good deal more subjec-
tive than most of us realize Pain is sub
jective; witness how much more you sur
fer from the dentists ministrations If you
go to him when you are in a nervous and
apPrehenSive mood. Pleasure is very
much subjective; if you have any doubts
OF that just repeat some excursion which
you TOOK enormous pleasure in as a child
re are all In the habit of thinking that
people are happy or unhappy according to
their possessions and their SURROUNDINGS
but l do not believe that am putting it
are really not so large a factor in determ-
lining a persons happiness or unhappi-
ness as that persons mental viewpoint.
If you are in the habit of letting people
and things rub you the wrong way, no
matter how pleasant the outward condt-
tons of your life, you will be sure to be
often annoyed and irritated.
If, on the other hand, you can be big
enough to be ''just amused" by irritating
conditions and trying people, you will be
above the power of circumstances.
And not only do people who have this
latter viewpoint on life find Infinitely
more happiness themselves. but they arc
very much pleasanter to be with.
Not long ago had occasion to take a
trip with a woman of this type. The trip
though short, happened to be crowded full
OF incidents that were not all of them
particularly pleasant. We missed con-
nections right and left and once we
seemed doomed to miss a most important
train on which our baggage, including ali
our hand luggage, had already been
paced; furthermore we were obliged to deal
with an extremely disagreeable and unac-
commodating woman. Now all that sound
as If we had a most unpleasant time OF il
DOESN'T 1T? And yet my memory of the
trip on the whole is pleasant. why? Be
cause my companion was one of those de-
Hghtful people who always winnow the
grain OF amusement and diversion out of
the husk of annoyance
The facility of being diverted where
less fortunate people are annoyed" saws
Agnes Repplier, lis rare birthright and
worth many mess of pottage."
plier.
Refuse to allow trifling circumstances
or unimportant people to have so much
power over you.
When you find yourself starting to be
annoyed make yourself see the amusing
side of it all, and laugh instead.
1t really can be done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
A HINT 10 GARDENERs.

In the Leavenworth Labor Chron-
icle and Reconnaissance, there ap-
peared recently this brief but signifi-
cant paragraph:
Ieavenworth gardeners are ship
ping vegetables to the north, as is
their usual custom at this season of
the year. Since they have formed an
association and employed an agent,
their market has been much ex-
tended
This ought to open the eyes of the
gardeners and all other farmers
throughout Kansas to the advantages
of cooperation in the marketing of
their products. If they will get to-
gether in their several localities and
employ competent men to act as their
selling agents, they will have no trou-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
IN FORMER DAYS.

The songs that mother used to sing,
Although she never brags.
Were sixty times as good, by ling.
As our new-fangled rags
youngstown Telegram.
The hckings father used to give
Were twice as hard, I vow;
But then the kids were twice as bad
AS what the kids are now.
Los Angeles Express.
The pies that mother used to bake,
Although she never brags,
We're better than the kind they make.
Inside those paper bags.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The pipe my father used to smoke
Was some pipe, my good men.
lit 1t once, just for joke
I never did again.
Springfield Union.
The whisky that my daddy slipped
Was simply natures nectar,
But the Juice they sell US nowadays
Tastes flat and dead as Hector.
New Orleans Picayune.
Alas! AlaS!! Those good old days
Were not one round of glee;
The pants that dad almost wore out
Were oft cut down for me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
DAFFYDH.S
BY q. NOAL.L.

If you owed a dollar what would the
tomato?
CAV, go on, you piker!)
7 If a native of Hawaii went out ON
a lark would you say that he was ION
a lulu?''
(Wincent!l Will you ave vinegar
on your wittles?l
If fountain pens were generally dis
tributed in an insane asylum would
they make the inmates right?
(And you can see more out of a stain
ed glass window than you can out of a
glass eye.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
FROM OTHER PENS
CHANGE M STYLE on oRAroRY


The American people are very much
IN earnest. If a vigilant citizenship
means au efficient Government then
our Government in the future is to
be better than it has been during re-
cent years. A country you know, gets
the government it deserves. You can
see the change that has come over the
people in the change that has taken
place In after-dinner oratory. Not so
many years ago the northumberland
speakers were the wits, the fellows
VINO could tickle the ears, who could
raise laughs, who could make every
one feel jocose and happy for the time
being. The more trivial the utterances
the more popular the speaker and his
speeches. All that has changed
What is the keynote of the after
dinner speech of today? Is the humor-
list sought after? Is it nonsense the
people come out to hear? Do they
applaud only what is funny and frown
upon what is serious7 Glance at the
newspapers and you will there find the
answer. Men-and women-today de-
mand sense instead of nonsense real
tiles rather than rhetoric, facts rather
than fiap-doodle, logic rather than the
ludicrous. The American people have
outgrown their childish taste for mere
ly being amused when they attend
public functions where oratory is in
order. They are awake to the need
for earnestness. for serious thought
san Francisco Examiner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
SAYS UNCLE CAV

There never was a more plausible or
dangerous piece of bad advice than
that which concerns looking a gift
horse in the mouth. If there is one
rule more than another that we insist
upon observing litsfs getting something
for everything we give. Generally
speaking, few of us make real gifts All
of US keep strings on our largesse and
We never forget that the recipient is
under obligations to us.
More men have been ruined by ac-
cepting favors than have suffered loss
by refusing them. The best rule is to
look a gift horse in the mouth and then
politely turn him down. Men without
the price have no business with horses
and if they have the price it is the part
of wisdom to pay spot cash for their
saddle animals. Deferred payments
for favors bear compound interest and
grow alarmingly with age.
Life is a game of give and take and
you've got to meet your obligations.
If you accept favors, you must pay in
kind and usually with interest. If you
are to be approximately a free agent,
you must be under obligations to but
few as possible. He who receives many
accommodations, gifts or favors al
ways finds a day of reckoning in which
he must pay heavily or stand absolute
standing fellow who should have made
good has been tangled in a web of
moral obligations and gone down
wreck.
Favors is pretty game if you know
how to play it, but the recipient
never wins. The advantage lies with
him who first gives and then, in good
time, demands payment with usury.-
Copyright 1912, by w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most of the tears are unnecessary
and they don't help much.
\
A frivolous man is even worse than
that kind of a woman.
The person who is easily bored has a
particularly trying time of it.
X
Nor can you expect politeness from
others if you don't extend it to them.
X n n
More people would have better time
of it if they didn't try to travel out OF
their class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
Ancient Surgery.


There is no doubt that some rough
form Of surgery must have existed
from very ancient times, but it is
strange to find that SO complex and
delicate an operation as trepanning IS
one of the Oldest.
So far as actual records go, Hippo
crates gives us the earliest account.
He wrote treaties on features, dislo-
cations, and wounds of the head, in
which he described the methods of pro-
cedure to be followed in the case of a
fractured skull. His direction was to
cut away a piece of the bone, so that
the pressure on the brain might be re-
moved.
There are also records about this
time and later of a file being used for
this purpose, which, at a time when
anaesthetics were undreamed of, must
have been, to say the least, painful.
According to DIR. T. Rice Holmes,
the operation of removing pieces of
bone was performed long before histor-
&c times. The effects on the skull are
easily seen after death, and are visible
so long as the bones are preserved.
From inspection of certain skulls of
the later stone age in ancient Britain,
DR.. Holmes has come to the conclusion
that some of these had undergone the
operation which must have been per-
formed with a stone implen4ent.-Lon-
don Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
THE ALLEN VERDICT.

Virginia has proceeded with exem-
plary dispatch to bring to justice the
members of the Allen gang responsible
for the murders in the TIillsville court
house. The assault upon the officers
OF the law was committed March IA.
No time was lost in the pursuit and
capture of all but two of the men
and the trial was prosecuted vigorously
and effectively. There was not a par
ttcle of doubt of the guilt of Floyd
Allen, yesterday convicted of murder
In the first degree; but there was some
apprehension lest in a Community
which had reason to be terrorized at
the desperation of men, who did not
hesitate to shoot down the very officers
of the court, there might be difficulty
in obtaining a jury that would not be
deferred from doing its duty by fear
of vengeance at the hands of friends
of the gang. It is to be hoped there
will be little delay in carrying out the
verdict of the jury and also that news
in the mountains of Virginia. Ken
lucky and Tennessee flies swiftly.
Nothing will do as much to put down
lawlessness in this lawIess section as
proof that justice travels surely and
swiftly and strikes hard.-Baltimore
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

Governor Stubbs is especially versa
tile in the use of language. For in
stance, his proclamations. incident to
holidays, are couched in words ano
phrases that are as different from the
ones he uses in public speaking as is
the lingo of a Chinese laundryman
when compared with the graceful ex-
pressions of a poet of France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

With Colonel Roosevelt, the end al
ways justifies the means no matter
what they may be. He boldly an
nounces that he simply took the Pan
anna canal strip from Colombia be-
cause it was needed for the purposes of
the canal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

Is the end of Cuba as a republic in
sight? The United States has deemed
it necessary to send 500 marines to
the island to protect the lives and the
property of the Americans who hap
pen to be in the zone of the present
revolution there. If this country is
again forced to bring about peace in
Cuba, it will remain on the job per-
manently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IFrom the New York Press.l
All a man seems to need to get the big
head is little brain
Being a snob is SO natural to most peo-
pie they think it's everybody else.
Some people make lot of money pre-
tending to show others how to make it.
The more a man talks about himself the
more Disguised you get that it isn't about
yourself.
Some men are so lucky that when any
body wants to borrow from them they
haven't cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

Vital statistics at Hamburg for the
past three years have been scanned in
vain for q record of the birth or
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's son. Perhaps
this youngster is a replica of Topsy
of Uncle Toms Cabin fame, who, &C
cording OF her own testimony was not
horned" but Just "growed" UP.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

AS to when an egg becomes decrepit
is one of the latest problems that has
been submitted to the consideration Of
the distinguished justices of the ma
TONS supreme court. Under ordinary
conditions this is best solved by break
ing the shell and taking a smell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

Nothing at all is seen in the Cali
fornia newspapers about 1t, but con-
gress has been asked to make an en-
Urgency appropriation of 100000 to
help stamp out the bubonic plague in
the rural districts of California where
IL has become menacing recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

They appear to settle labor troubles
in Russia in the same way that they
settle all other disturbances. Some
Chinese miners employed by Russian
mine operators in Siberia became a
little too insistent in their complaints
against unfair treatment and wretch
ed working conditions. Russian
troops were called in and 200 of the
miners were shot. down like dogs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

Wall street gamblers are laying odds
of to 1 that Champ Clark will mol
get the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation; to 1 that Woodrow Wilson
will not get it: and 10 to L that Mr..
Bryan will not land it. But they are
careful not to suggest who will win
this honor. Maybe they have a dark
horse of their own fancy Up their
sleeve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

If the people Of Massachusetts, are
ordinary mortals, they will surely look
with suspicion on the announcement of
Thomas w. Lawson, of frenzied finance
fame and the possessor Of many mill
lions, that he wants to represent that
commonwealth in the United States
senate for the particular purpose of
doing what he can to reduce the cost
of living
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

According to the returns made to the
personal property assessors in Ohio
neither Mr.. Taft nor Governor Har-
mon are rich in a financial way. But
they are certainly rich in experience
in the political arena, and getting rich
er in this particular every day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-27

In all probability, Dave Leahy is
boxing over his stock of alibis to find
the one that will best fit the present
emergency. Colonel Hoisington, Sec
ond regiment, X N. G., is on the war
path for the originator of the canard
that the militia companies at Wichita
had received secret orders to get ready
on 40 hours notice to start for Old
Noxico