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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-30

stammered the. young man. and then
| he did something worse.
The girl bent far over the water to
| disentangle the lines from a log, and
! he thought her on the point of falling
and made a grab and tore her shirt
waist and pulled off her hat. She didn {
fall. She simply looked up and quietly
said:
II think you are the most careless
young man 1 ever nett
Yes m-yes'm!'' he replied, as he
left his fishing outfit and walked hur-
riedly away; and he did not regain
his composure for the next two hours.
WELL remarked Miss Ida Green
leaf, as she arrived at the house OF
her aunt, which had also been her
home for years, IT have met that young
man from the city. He was down fish,
ing"
"And you spoke to him without an
introduction
IT felt obliged to. I had to ask
him if he had come to fish, why he
didn't fish and to tell him that he was
the most careless young man I ever
met. 1 admired him, though. Came
should say, and yet he was as greatly
embarrassed and bfushed as hard as
a girl. I think"
What Ida?'
THAT we shall have a thunder show
er before night -...9-
SOA~A@~~6
out of the postoffice, Mr.. Graham ran
full tilt against Miss Ida and banged
her up against the building.
IA thousand pardons! he halted
to saw.
Truly, the most awkward young
man L ever sawI" she replied as she
recovered her equilibrium and passed
on. -...-.,.
well, auntie, I've met the young
man again." said Miss Ida on reach
ing home. He slammed me up against
the postoffice."
You don't say! And you spoke to
him2' ...--...
Told him he was the most awk-
| ward man I ever saw. Say, I'm sure
ly beginning to admire him. He's got
an individuality
Much to his surprise the young man
didn't depart from the village. That
was why, three days later, as he
caught sight of some one struggling
in the water he leaped off the bridge
to the rescue. Firstly, he couldn't
swim q stroke and secondly, the strug-
gler was Miss Ida in her bathing suit
and she had to rescue him. She had
to do more. He was carried to her
aunt's house in a half-drowned con-
dition, and it was hours before he
had the strength to say:
you are simply delicious smiled
Miss Ida.
A month later Uncle Hiram Buzz
was explaining to knot of idlers at
the inn.
Eyes, the young city Teller went to
town this morning, but he'll be back
he'll be back. And think of the
prestige it gives Harpersville. Feller
from the city comes out here-felleT
who could have had his pick Of Fifth
avenue-and falls in love with one OF
our gals! Oh, he'll be back sure nun
he'll be ck."-(Copyright, 1912, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-30
JAYKAWKER JOTS

George Swim of Glade, Phillips
county. ought to be at home in the
water.
Propounded by the Morganville
Tribune: If it is true that a husband
ana wife are only one, how does it re-
quire two to make a quarrel?
They must have put the lid on at
Toronto. The Toronto Republican no
longer gives the first position in the
first column On its first page to BUY
it in Toronto"
The farmers idea of retirement.
says the Soldier Clipper, is to go to
town and run a restaurant, and the
business mans idea of retirement is
to run small farm.
Attention is called by the Valley
Fails Farmers Vindicator that a fly
cannot live above the seventh story of
house. Is this a hint to Kansans
to see to it that their sleeping rooms
are located in the eighth story of their
dwellings?
From the Greeley County Repubu-
can: A great big guy came along
Wednesday canvassing for an eastern
| paper and giving some books as pre-
miums. If he was as smart as he was
big and impudent he would make a
good com promise candidate for presi-
dent.
Nothing is said by the Holton Re
corder about the size of the hailstones
which played such havoc in the north
ern part OF jackson county recently,
but it does have this to say about
them: "a week after the storm,
bitches were found that were still half
full of hailstones which is a long time
for ice to last in July"
Ben Mcdonald, so years old and a
preacher, walked three miles from
town the other day, shocked IL acres
of wheat, walked back home, hoped
up in the air and cracked his heels
three times before hitting the ground,
and offered to throw any kid of his
size in town, reports the Barnard Bee,
and it adds: When Ben gets little
age and size on him, We'll back him
against the field.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
BIZ THE ATCHISOr7 GLOBE.

Old Spontaneous Combustion gets a lot
of blame, and no punishment.
Too many people make the thermome-
ter their favortte summer reading.
Scandals and flying machines are apt
to start much easier than they stop.
Hospitality has been imposed on so
much it is a wonder it has survived this
long.
Japanese are successful imitators in
many lines, but they should quit trying to
grow whiskers.
If a man has large family, he has to
second the motion if he wants to get the
floor in his own home.
There are also a large number of south
erners who don't wear the kind of hats
the cartoonists give them.
Our notion of a boy who is being
spoiled is one who feels entirely comfor5-
able when he is dressed up.
There is great advantage in booking a
candidate for three or four speeches every
night; it shortens them.
1t is our theory that a street railway
conductor has trouble enough without be-
ing reported to the general manager.
What has become of the old-fashioned
girl who rode a bicycle? Just putting it
that way to show how time hurries on.
Nearly everyone is satisfied with enough
of this worlds goods, but notions as to
how much that is are subject to frequent
revision upward.
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rs or 80 per cent more inhabitants
than the japanese empire, not includ-
ing Korea.
1t is true that Japan seemed small
by contrast with the vast size of
Russia, and before the Russian war
the island empire looked little by COM
parison with the huge but helpless
bulk of China. It happened that the
two wars which brought the military
and naval strength and prowess of the
Japanese most strikingly to the notice
of the world were waged against en-
pires of enormous extent and popu-
lation. but that did not mean that
there was any lack of material for
big armies in Japan. A country with
more than 100000 people can get
all the able bodied men to do it's fight
ing that 1t can arm and equip and pre-
pare for service.
Japan is not large in area, but even
by that test it ranks ahead of the
United Kingdom and not greatly in
ferior to Germany and France. It
is only the giant neighbors of Japan
on the continent of Asia that make the
island country look so little. In Eu-
rope it would seem very different. and
there it would also upset the balance
of power and create a tremendous
ruction in various ways.
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WHY RIISINESS HESTTATEs.

Conditions are just about right for
an activity in business that will make
for large prosperity in the imme-
date future. But such hesitancy as there
may be on the part of the leaders in
the industrial and financial world 20
give the wheels of trade a few vigorous
turns just now is attributed by Henry
Clews, the New York banker and one
OF the nations leading economists,
partly because we are in the height of
the vacation season, partly because Of
an entire lack of leadership, and partly
because there still remains a series Of
uncertainties which may interfere with
a complete restoration of confidence.
s'Chief of these continues Mr.. Clews.
sis the political outlook. Rightly or
wrongly, there is continued hesitation
pending the results of the present cam
paign, which cannot be definitely fore
seen at the present time. 1t would be
a mistake to assume that the hostility
to capital has disappeared. Though less
acute than formerly, it still remains
active and continually shows itself in
attempted legislative attacks. There is
no certainty that these attacks will
not be renewed in the next congress.
Capital continues on the defensive
against the demands for higher wages
by labor on the one hand, and against
the demands for restrictive legislation
on the other by the people at large.
The certainty of renewed tariff ag1ta-
ton next winter, regardless of which
party wins, unsettles many manufac-
turers alike. The persistant high cost
OF living is also a factor which serious
~ complexities the political situation
and should not be overlooked. Prices Of
nearly all commodities are high and
continue to show rising tendency.
This stimulates social AMI political dis
quiet Some theorists hold that the
large increase in gold production is re-
sponsible. This influence, however, is
much exaggerated. A far more impor-
tant element is the arrangement be-
tween supply and demand of commod-
tiles. In nearly all parts of the world
the demand for various products has
increased faster than supply. Modern
methods of business have enabled pro-
ducers to combine and control produc-
ton and prices more efectually than
ever before. Trades unions have en-
abled labor to do likewise, and short
err hours and higher wages have mater
tally added to high prices and the in
creased cost of living. The constant
drift of population from the farm TO
the city the world over has also been
an important factor. The changes thus
going on in our economic structure are
far reaching and their outcome cannot
yet be estimated. This alone causes a
feeling of hesitancy on the part of
financial and industrial leaders who are
always considerably Influenced by long
distance views
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no THE BOY OF 1912.

BY Estelle May Nolte.
(Fron Judge'sLibrary. }
There, little boy, don't cry!
They have taken your gun, know,
And your fireworks, too,
And your cannon, new,
Belong to the long ago;
But cheer up now and cease to sigh
There, little boy, don't cry,
Don't cry!
There, little boy, don't cry!
They have stopped your noise, 1 know,
And the shells and bombs
That have burned your thumbs
Are things of the long ago;
But better things will soon come by
There, little boy, don't cry,
Don't cry!
There, little boy, don't cryi
You are now growing up know,
But you're one of those boys
Who will make a great noise
That can help wake the world; and so
You will hit the right mark, I'm sure, II
you try
There, little boy, don't cry,
Don't cry!
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sT,TTTIE" JAPAN.

Whenever anything happens which
directs attention especially to Japan
there is much talk of what wonders
the japanese have accomplished, par
ticularly in the way of building up
their national strength on land and
sea, for such a little country" 1t
seems that there must be a general
impression that the Japanese empire
ranks among the small states of the
civilized world in whatever makes the
bulk and weight of nations.
This is a mistake. Japan is not
small in population. On the contrary,
in that vital point the Japanese en-
pire ranks with such states as Austria
Hungary and Great Britain, lead
ing both of them i'm size. France
has only about rs per cent of
the numerical strength of Japan,
and Italy is beaten by more
than so per cent. Germany has only
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-30
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING.

Amid the turmoil of politics, and re-
CARELESS of the claims of this or that
party as to it's particular theories be-
ing necessary to the nations material
advancement, it may be we'll, rightly
thinks the Manufacturers Record, to
bear in mind the following facts:
L. The country is now producing pig
iron at the rate of about 100000 tons
a year, with consumption exceeding
production. This is at the rate of
about 100000 tons higher than the
boom year of 1906, and at the rate of
about 100000 tons higher than the pro-
duction of 1870 the record year of iron
output
2. The cotton manufacturing interests
of the country, which for several years
suffered from period of depression
greater than this industry had had for
very many years, are now enjoying
great prosperity. Cotton mills in all
parts of the country are crowded with
work and making money.
g. To the amazement of the cotton
trade of the world, a crop of 16,50O,0Oc
bales had been rapidly absorbed at
steadily advancing prices.
4. Crop prospects indicate that once
more the American farmers will before
the end of this year have produced $s,-
900, O0O, 900 to 100000, 900 of value.
5. The 100000 miles of railroad in this
country are, with few exceptions, taxed
almost to the limit of their ability to
handle existing traffic, which will rap
idly increase as the crop moving sea-
son approaches.
s. The 100000 people who dwell be-
meath the Stars and Stripes in CONT
mental United States, the most active,
virile, energetic people on earth. are
steadily increasing the wealth of the
country, are doing business at the same
old stands in the same old energetic
way, are developing the resources of all
sections, are building more and better
homes, more and more costly hotels
and office buildings more good roads,
making more municipal improvements,
and doing other things that express
the boundless energy of such a people
at work in such a country.
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says UNCLE CIV

| Don't be victim of the tipping habit.
IT is bad enough to waste your substance
IN extravagant gratuities for vain show,
but the real victim is he who receives,
not he who gives. Generally speaking,
there is no such thing in this selfish world
as gratuity. The name is a, snare and
deluston, and where gratuities flourish
manhood dies.
The prime rule of existence is that you
pay for what you get. and. unlike most
rules, that one is unbreakable.
If you don't pay in labor or coin of the
realm, you pay in character. He who
receives a so-caIled gratuity is no longer
his own master, but has become some
bodys man, the Geneva society in its uni
form of greasy spike tails to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The evil is, of course twofoId That
portion of society which insists upon
loosening its pursestrings to display its
gold is rotten at the top and soon fulfillS
the final destiny that nature has provided
for it-becomeS fertilizer. Nature loves
gorgeous raiment, but abhors vain show
Hence there is something outre and alb
horrent about the tipping system. Every
body hates it-those who give up and
those who take. And the latter hate is
the greater of these.
But the real vice in the practice is the
collar that 1t puts upon necks that are
supposedly free. He who receives
| largesse is always more or less a slave.
Tips and dignity don't go well together.
| From the waiter who levies blacknail
upon your pride to the employee that
works for an Inadequate salary because
| he receives a remembrance at Christmas
| time, the taker of tips barriers his birth
right for a supposed gift.
The dignity of labor, as we Americans
know 1t, presupposes some sort of stand
! ard value for service. So long as 1t de-
mands and receives that value, asking nc
| more and accepting no less, there is con-
/ siderable independence in the lot of the
| employee. There is at least self-respect
| that is capable of looking the world In
the face and telling the conductor when
| to Jerk the bell rope. But the supposed
| beneficiary of the "keep-the-change
| habit is moral bondsman, although the
| constitution of the United States saith
| differently. He takes his tip or his pack
age at Christmas and is a fair mark for
everybody's boot.
The difference is plainly marked between
the lots of servants in the country and
in the city. Back in good old unspoiled
PuckyhuddIe, the fresh-faced Hebe who
brought US our steak and iced tea saved
her 81 week until she got enough to
buy trosseau- Then she married a
young farmer and now is mother of lone
of the best families The fellow who
takes your tip when you dine in New
York may be your moral equal in every
way but one, but you'd kick him down
the front steps if he tried to pay atten-
ton to your daughter. And, having sold
his birthright he would reserve the boot.
-(Copyright, 1912. by the Mcclure News
paOer Syndicate.)
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News.1
No man is a tyrant-unless he has an
opportunity
But the bird in the hand fails to catch
the early worm.
It's hard for man with a grievance TO
stick to the truth.
Some men work awfully hard trying to
land a voorhees, job.
If a truthful man breaks his word it's
because he shutters.
Even a cat has sense enough to refrain
from CRYING over spilled milk.
A man may occasionally have the last
word but with a woman there isn't any,
It isn't safe to say much about fools
because there are so many in the world.
coroe mon are a great deal more sue
cessfuI in concealing their yellow streak
than others. ,
Once there was a braggart VINO oodSteu
49, - Faared neither God nor man; but
as a matter of course his WlIe was a
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

l. %OAAA NAAO AAAAo0CAPIi1d I6cCOTQl
Time is money, which may be the rea-
SON some people spend it so foolishly.
Many a woman is an invalid because
she thinks she looks well when she is Ill
The letter carrier is one man VINO
should be sure a man gets what is coru-
ing to him.
A frock coat is proper for a wedding,
but cutaway is more appropriate for a
divorce suit.
A Kensington matchmaker writes stories
for the magazines. They are probably
dialect stories.
A man never fully appreciates happiness
until he reaches the point where he has
to look back on it
Mr.. Gnaggs-"You used to say was
the last man you would marry" Mrs.
Gnaggs-"Wel, you were"
Natures handiwork sometimes needs re-
adjusting. The man with big heart often
has the smallest pocketbook.
Blobbs-"Do you believe matches are
made in heaven" SlobbS-''I shouldn' t
think they would need any in the other
place
wigg-women do lots of things just out
of curiosity" Wagg-"But women never
are" Wigg-"Never are what?'' wagg
-"Out of curiosity
THE good die young quoted the Wise
Guy. ''Well, judging from the average
small boy, should say it must be ve1y,
very young" added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-30
EVENING CHIT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

In a letter which came to me the
other day was the following sentence:
Sometimes you are not SO good as
usual, and then I say, Well, perhaps
Ruth has headache today"
If there were more people in the
world like the writer of the letter,
how much happier a place this world
would be!
Because of the complexity of modern
life we receive a great deal Of service
from men and women whom we never
see. And just because we do not see
these people we are apt to forget that
they are men and women like ourselves.
Perhaps it is because so much work
is done by machinery nowadays that
we are inclined to act as if a machine
cooked the food we eat at the hotel or
restaurant; wrote and printed our
newspapers; sorted our MALL tendede
the telephone switchboard, and per-
formed all of the innumerable services
whose agents We seldom or never see.
But these things are not done by ma
chinery. Indeed-to contradict myself
nothing is really done by machinery.
That is: without a human being to
tend the machine, and consequently a
human element in the product. All
these services are performed by human
beings and human beings are
liza BILE to headache, heartache,
sleeplessness, grief, anxiety and
all the other ills and accidents which
sometimes make it hard for you and
me to do our work well.
You take up your newspaper some
morning and find the type badly ''pied'
right in the middle of a story in
which you are particularly interested
DO you think of a man who may have
sat up nights with his sick wife or baby
until he is so dead for sleep that he can
not always command his fingers Alright
and 7 have inn q
been? Or do you grumble, How
wretchedly this paper is set upp' and
feel aggrieved that the machine which
writes and prints your daily paper
should have been allowed to get out of
order.
Your cup of cocoa at the restaurant
tastes burned. Do you simply send It
back with an indignant word of con-
domination, OF do you remember that IT
was a human being like yourself who
was careless for a moment and let that
cocoa burn, and that there are times
when even you and make mistakes?
When the telephone girl gives you
the wrong number some morning, do
you reproye her sharply and sarcasti-
cally for daring to do such a thing
without a single thought for Ler end of
the business? Or do you remember that
she is probably young and possibly
pretty, and surely fond of fun, and that
perhaps she went to a dance last night
and had a beautiful time and stayed
later and got more tired than she
really had any right to-"even as you
and II"
The world is full of human beings
who are all sisters and brothers I'M
der the skin. 1t is also full Of stupid
people who never find that out.
To be sure we have a right to demand
good service when we are paying for it
with our hard earned money That's
Justice. But don't forget that there is
something higher than justice. That's
and that teaches you to remem-
Der that your invisible servitors are not
machines but just weak human beings,
liable to headaches and heartaches and
mistakes and follies-"even as you and
l."
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HU1NOR or THE Day

"Good-by foreverT' said the young man
coldly, as he prepared to depart. IT leave
you now, never to return" "Good-by, -
said the fair maid in the parlor scene.
But before you go let me remind you
that you can telephone me in the mornin z
ever so much cheaper than you can send
of chocolates with the Observation-Disclosures
ford Courant.
Hitching Prohibiteo.-A clergyman in a
small town was deploring the fact that
none of the couples that came in from the
country to be married stopped at his place
for the purpose. well, brother" said the
man addressed, what can you expect,
with that big sign on the tree there: Five
Dollars Fine for T1itching Herei?''-
Youths Companion.
Lawyer-Your honor, ask the dismissal
of my client on the ground that the war
rant fails to state that he hit Bill Jones
with malicious inent. Rural Judge-This
court amt graduate Of none Of your
technical schools. don't care what he
hit him with. The pint is. did he hit him?
Perceed.-Minneapolis Journal.
big one.' Whats he dom these days?
He has become interested in settlement
work" well, that ought TO keep him
occupied for a while; he owed everybody"
Kansas City Journal.
The Professors wife-Tbe professor is
in the laboratory conducting Some chem
ical experiments. The professor expects
to go down to posterity- From the Labo-
ratory-B-r-r-i Bang! The Visitor-I hoIe
the professor hasn't gone.-Laughter-
Problems to Be Solved.-"The problems
of human existence are becoming more
and more complex" YES" replied the
admitting parent. II can hardly wait for
my daughters graduation essay to let US
know what to do about them-"-WashinG-
ton Star.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nothing is easier to shatter than a
good reputation
4
Most people have little use for a Sc
cret they can't disclose to some one.
\ X y
Nearly all of the fishermen get more
disappointment than anything else.
y
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed man who waxed the ends of his mus
tache2
Among the decidedly unreliable pre-
dictions are those of the political va
riety.
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In its second announcement on the
Roosevelt electors case" the supreme
court is particular to state that it re-
Trains from the expression of any
opinion respecting the regularity or ir-
regularity of the conduct of any po-
Iitical faction or organization. This
ought to put a quietus on the attempts
that have been made by certain of the
prominent Roosevelt enthusiasts to
lead the people to believe that the
Kansas supreme court has endorsed
their position in respect to the Roose-
Welt electors.