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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

1t was very warm day, one of those
suddenly warm days at the first of the
season which make the healthiest of us
feel weak and miserable and cause us all
TO wonder why we longed for summer
My lady of leisure, looking fresh and
dainty in white linen Dress with a rose
at her belt and tan of outdoor life Oil
her smooth cheek, had dropped into town
Tor bit of shopping. She strolled down
the aisle with an attendant courtier IN
white flannelS following in her wake. She
paused near where 1 was waiting for my
chance to interview floor walker, a little
man with an anxious, deprecating air
and STOPPING shoulders.
THE art embroidery? Yes, madam
They were on the third floor, but 1 think
they have moved them. Just minute,
madam, and I'll find OUT
He skipped nervously away, and my lady
of leisure turned to her courtier in white
flannels. Some of those floor walkers"
she observed superciliously, don't know
enough to go in when it rains. / thought
that's what they had the creatures for; to
know just where things were. and here
have to stay in this hot place while he
runs all over the store. It's a shame they
can't have more efficient men,"
The man in white flannel was standing
with his back to me, so didn't see how
he received this speech. If he really was
a man, and not just suit of white flan-
nels, 1t seems to me that he must have
felt shame and disgust even if he didn't
show it.
And yet. undoubtedly, the lady of leisure
thought to raise herself in his eyes by
which she treated her interiors CO..
I have often seen women, and men, too,
try to impress some member of the OPP
posite sex by thus asserting their SUI
periority. A man will speak sharply and
rudely to the waiter; woman will rebuke
her maid, or draw her skirts back from
the contamination of working mems pres
ence each thinking to demonstrate what
a fine lady or gentleman he or she is
AS a matter of fact, they simply demon
strate that they are not ito the manner
born" The real lady or gentleman does
not need to assert his or her superiority
1t asserts itself
And for any woman to expect to be-
witch man by such demonstration
surely that is the height of folly. Surely
any man in the possession of his senses
will not be pleased to hear a woman speak
harshly to or of her less fortunate fellow
beings. Surely he will recognize such a
spirit as the most scarlet of danger sig
nails for him.
That is: if he is real man. A zeal
man likes a real woman, and a real wo-
man in the fine sense of the word is one
who has pity and sympathy and forbear-
ance, never scorn and disdain, for those
less fortunate than she.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most of the sports are of the make
believe variety.
n
Neither is the best singer the one
who makes the most noise.
= y
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who referred to water as
Adams ale?
It's surprising how expert the rank
and file of pedestrians have become in
lodging automobiles.
\
This pleasant weather will provide
a lot of people with an excuse for not
going away on a vacation, even If
they never intended to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
HUAOR OF THE DIP

Cardinal Gibbons was discussing GIL
more and his band. Gilmore" CONTINUED
the cardinal, was famous for his playfn1
of Mozarts Twelfth Mass On one occa-
sion he played it in a North Carolina
town, and next day the local paper an
nounced that he rendered with great e.
feet Mozart's Twelfth Massachusetts. -
Argonaut.
Murphy-So Casey has quit drinking
Did he discover that the booze WASN'T
good for him2 Maloney-No.. The bar
tenders discovered that Casey wasn't good
for the booze-Puck.
MY dear Mrs. Comeup. did your lunch
here suit you? Have you had quantuu
sufficit?" "Oh, you couldn't get anything
like that in this town. It's local on
tion.'-Baltimore American.
why did you give your parrot away7
The poor bird meant nothing by its pro-
1T was learning to initiate my neiRhbor's
rusty lawn mower."-Washington Herald.
so you want to be a congressman.
might as well be as anybody" ssHavs
you any idea as to a congressman.s
duties?" Sure, To wrap up garden
seeds and mail them."-Detroit Saturday
Night
do you have any trouble I'm keepfnr
your boys on the farm? NO" replied
Farmer CorntosseI They're wiIlfn' ~
stay. The only difficulty is that thew an
want to act like summer boarders. -
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
THE YELLOW BOWL

THE YELLOW BOWL.
When first the Manchu came to power,
A potter made this yellow bowl,
With quiet curve and border SCROLL
And here inlaid the imperial flower
The peace of art was in his soul.
Had not the Manchu come to power?
Upon the flaky yellow base
That now is dull and now is bright,
A Towering branch, a bird alight.
Expressed his thought in formal grace.
Had not disorder taken flight
And left for art a quiet place?
And then, the artist sense alight,
He drew upon the yellow bowl
The symbol of the restless soul
A butterfly, in poised flight
For though the Manchu was in power,
The soul must wake when strikes the
hour.
Lily A. Long, in Atlantic Monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
by THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARsoNA

| The Big Smudge may be in good
condition, but his complexion is such
that even the widest sport writer
would hesitate to announce that he
was lin the pink of perfection"
Having won a fve-bean bonnet on
the Chicago convention, this dept. is
inclined to make a noise like a sport.
offered: evens on rair of shoes that
Paul Mulvane can out shoot any pro-
fessional shotgun sharks the powder
companies can send out this way.
The girl whose store hair doesn't
match the home grown, doesn't seem
to know that every one is "on" and
that she holds the same relative po-
sition as the old gray-haired wop VINO
paints his moustache black.
The way to keep a girl laughing, is
not to tell her a funny story, but to
tell her that she has beautiful teeth.
Local kiddos will not be permitted
to pop fire crackers on We more-or-
less ge-lorious Fourth, but if they are
real good, maybe the reform howlers
Whether or not the Zeppelin herd
of air ships are a success, depends
largely upon the object of their con-
out of Great Britain, they are COM
plete success.
1t is just as natural to pat win
ner on the back as it is to kick loser
little lower.
The trouble with the man who holds
a crouch is that he spends SO much
time getting even that he never gets
ahead.
If you have any worrying to do,
turn the job over to Gid Jiggleheimer.
the town worrier. He will take the
job. Just now he is busy worrying
because, if the air ship becomes prac-
teal. the Panama canal won't pay ex-
penses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

Massachusetts is going to spend
s5.O0O,0OO of its state funds during the
next five years for the Improvement of
state highways. How much is Kansas
going to spend in like fashion? Echo
answers. nothing. unless the next leg
islatUre gets busy in this direction
And good state highways would be of
more material benefit to the whole
people of Kansas than they will to
those of Massachusetts,. Most of Kan
sas' ''progres giveness'' is confined to
the advancement of purely political
theories by the active politicians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
DAFFYDMS
BY o. NoALL.

If a clarinet is made Of wood is a
trombone?
(Hey there, you bass drummer Put
a little more sentiment in your play
ing).
II a church choir was in debt how
much would the soprano?
(On merry life on the ocean
waves, is just the life for muh.)
If asphalt could talk could you tell
what the pavement?
(Spare me, mister! was a good boy
once.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
REFLECTIONS ORA BACHELOR

[From the New York PressI
1t takes so long to win good name
that you can lose it in a minute.
1t makes man very peevish for his
wife to think he ever could be.
The reason a man wants to be a hero
is SO as to get photographed looking that
way
Even when a girl has a spring cold in
her head she can't lose all faith in her
beauty.
The reason a girl can't walk a mile
without wanting to fall down is she can
dance seven and be crazy to keep on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subsc1 Jbers of the state journal
away from homo during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to nny address sE the rate OF
ten cents q week or thirty cents a
month (by nail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State journal VIII be
tn YOU like a 1aily letter from nome.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

against the plan of Governor Stubs
to attempt to make tho Republican
party of Kansas the Kansas wing of
the new Roosevelt party, but the
genial governor will also find that the
Republican party of Kansas is also OPP
posed to his unusual proposal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

Enforcing the laws against carry ing
concealed weapons is one way of MAX
Ing the murder statistics of the United
States look a little more like the
figures of other civilized countries.
And some stringent laws should be
passed regulating the sale of deadly
weapons of the pocket variety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

Governor Mcdonald of New Mexico
has crawdadded on the determination
credited to him few days ago that
ne would use every effort to stop the
Johnson-Flynn fight. Governor Nc
Donald now says that the only thing
in connection Herewith that he is con-
cerned about is the prohibition of pub
lie gambling at Las Vegas during the
immediate period Of the fight. Gov
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

One of the nations leading club
women insists that music should be
taught to six-months-o1d children. 1t
is doubtful, though, if a baby's cries
would be any less annoying, even if
they were pitched in tuneful melodies
and nerfact harmony
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

And the goose-bone prophets may
be pardoned in the future for fore
casting that an excessively cold winter
Is a breeder of intensely warm politics
for the succeeding months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

Compared with their Republican
brethren in the same beat, the mem
bers of the credentials committee of
the Democratic national convention
had the softest kind of 2 snap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

In the first five months of the year
British imports exceeded exports by
more than $5O0,0OO,O00. How does
John Bull square such a balance with
out mortgaging his islands? Simply
by drawing in billion a year or more
in profits on foreign investments and
earning hundreds of millions with his
ships in foreien trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

Gertrude Atherton must have a new
novel in the making. She has Just an
nexed a buch of free advertising
in all of the big newspapers of the
country by smoking a cigarette in the
dining room of one of the fashionable
country clubs in the vicinity of Chi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
SAYS UNCLE CAV

There is one good reason for refus-
ing to give up-you never know when
the time has come to quit. Most
fights are settled by moral courage.
Cunning, physical strength and mu-
nitionS of war are, in most cases. sec
ondary factors The man with the
grit gets there. After you have given
the other fellow a good tussle and find
your strength going fast, he may be
quite as ready to give in as you are.
You never can tell. There is no way
in which you can attach meter to the
pipe line that carries your enemy's
courage. If you quit while you are
victory to one who is ready to re-
linquish the struggle.
Men and things have a way of get
ting out of your road when you least
expect it. There NAV be more room
for strength in some men than in
you, but there is no more room for
grit. And there never was Drawn yet
grit that refused to take the count.
A few hours more or less make
little difference to one who is pre-
pared to give and take. They do
make a great difference to him who
has the yellow streak" You never
possessor crumbles. Circumstances
have their weak points as we'll as
men. All struggles are more or less
endurance contests, and 1T is moral
courage that endures. and the
"sticker' knows that when circum-
stances have bounded their victim 20
the brink of disaster, desperate cour-
through to safety. The best reason
for refusing to quit is that no man
can ever know when to hoist the white
f1ag.-(Copyright., 1872 by w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

In buying a ticket for the baseball
Booster Day. you are not only help
ing the ball team to get on its feet
you are also helping the town. A ball
team in a prominent league is one
of the best advertisements that a city
can have. and the better the team the
more valuable it is as an edvertise-
mani
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

Interest in major league baseball
circles now centers in the loss of a
game by the New York Giants when
"Rube'' Marquard is in the box.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

They've varied the monotony in
Georgia by lynching a negress. Yes.
Georgia is in the United States and
this is the Twentieth Century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

That decisive battle between the
Mexican rebels and the governments
forces about which there has been SO
much talk of late, isn't breaking any
speed limits in its approach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

ernor Mcdonald has missed chance
to enhance his reputation and also es-
tablish the fact that New Mexico was
worthy in every way of being admit
ted to statehood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

AS is usually the case, Mr.. Bryan
was right in his representation that
the Baltimore convention would be a
model affair, as far as its conduct was
concerned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

Some rather interesting, and, I be-
lieve, not hitherto published details
about the first appearance in print
of Stevenson's Treasure Island"
were given me the other day by N.
F. Henderson, the veteran proprietor
of Young Folks" one of the oldest
papers for boys and girls in this coun-
try. Henderson: who o, puD nfdI,c
is acting at present as treasurer of a
fund for the benefit of perhaps the
most popular of all authors, Steven
son not excepted, who have contrib
uted to Young Folks" in the per-
son of a former editor of the paper,
Richard Quittenton, who is now IS and
in bad health. Quittenton took
charge of of Young Folks in 1872,
and edited it for twenty years. during
which time he wrote the Tim Pip
pin" stories, which were a craze with
the rising generation in this country
between the years of 1872 and 1876.
These stories, which Quittenton wrote
under the name of Roland Quiz"
described the adventures of a valor-
Gus dwarf and even now letters are
received at the offices of Young
Folks" asking where they can be had.
Among those who have contributed to
the Quittenton testimonial are Conan
Doyle, Rider Haggard and Arthur
CUTLER Couch, each of whom is now
Sir
said Mr.. Henderson, apropos of a
reference to Stevenson, that his great
adventure story was named Treasure
Island not by him, but by me. When
the manuscript was submitted to us,
by the way, Stevenson was practical
ly unknown, and we paid for 1T at our
usual rates for work by unknown
writers, twelve and sixpence col
umn.'
Whereat I gasped, twelve and six
pence being a bit less than SO in
American money.
Stevenson had named his story
The Sea Cook" Mr.. Henderson add
ed, 'tbut Treasure Island struck me
as happier title, and I wrote him
that this would have to be its name
if published by us, and he wrote back
at once saying that my title was much
the better
During the serial publication of the
story, Stevenson frequently dropped
in at the offices of Young Folks in
Red Lion court, and Henderson, like
everyone else. promptly fell under the
spell of his rsonality.-London Cor
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

Chicago, at any rate, can enjoy a
safe and sane Fourth of July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication 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, 1912-06-28

Many promising political careers are
being crippled this year and others
killed, but lusty new crop is coming
along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
FROM OTHER PENS

NEW YORK'S ALIEN PROBLEM.
New York has been somewhat star.
tied by the announcement that more
than third of the adult male inhab-
1tants of the city are unnaturalized
aliens, the total being over 100000 out
of 1,433,749. In the state there are
1880 foreign born white men who
have not become citizens. Naturally
some commentators find this alarming,
yet SO large part of these aliens are
transient workers who will leave the
country when they have accumulated
a little money that their political in
f1uence is probably nil. 1t must be
considered, too, that the notion that
aliens ought to be talzer in as voters
is rather modern, and that not all po-
litical thinkers assent to it. In Athens
the number of foreigners, many of
them merchants, was at times as great
as in New York today, but there was
no thought of giving them a vote, or
their children for that matter. They
paid a tax for the privilege of doing
business, and economically they were
free and we'll protected, but they were
aliens to whom political questions were
of no concern. That is net the Ameri-
can way, but it is better that aliens
who are not going to become full
Americans with no divided interests,
should keep their foreign status and
leave when they are ready. We want
no half-andhalf Americans.-Spring-
field Republicans.
EARNINGS OF COLLEGIANS
The decennial record of the class of
1901 of Princeton university, just issued.
shows that the average income of
members of the class ten years after
graduation is almost $4,000. The aver
age income for the first year is s70644.
and the average increase through the
succeeding years is steady, with in
comes from law, business and medicine
increasing more rapidly than those
from other pursuits. The average in
come of teachers after ten years was
81 ,779; of clergymen, $1.714: of physi-
clans, 1904; lawyers. $4,994 and in
business. $46S4. The average in law
and medicine is probably higher THAI
the average income of lawyers and
physicians in general. How much of
this depends on the Princeton training,
and how much on the original resources
or social position of those from whom
the class was recruited must be a mat
ter of conjecture. The frankness Of
those business men and lawyers who
made reports on incomes the amount
of which only themselves could know,
is to be considered. Men of average in
come are not apt to underestimate their
earnings. especially when a comparison
is to be made with those of their fell
lows. All that aside. the report of the
record of the class must be gratifying
to advocates of university training
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

CORN PROSPECTS ARE FINE
Inere is no longer any doubt that
KANSAS Will have a great wheat crop.
experts differ in estimates. hut tt1a
lowest prediction, $4,000. 900 busbeIS,
means a brilliant year for Kansas al
bread producer. Recent rains have
given the corn and kaffir fields a
start which under any but the worst
aoture conoitions means at least q
sooo crop OF both grains. Last year
at TINS time the southwest had suf
fered drouth of five weeks dura-
tlon, and early corn was practically
ruined. Grass had ceased to grow
and cattle were painting for water IN
drink Here we are close to July with
the soil amply supplied with mois-
ture, and the corn and kaffir in per-
rect form. The chances are more than
favorable for feed crops and it In
iced that advances prosperity in KAN
sas When to abundant bread for the
human race are added bountiful feed
Tor cattle, hogs, poultry, sheen.
horses and mules, the man who can
not be hopeful is born a pessimist.
Last year at this time the river bed
was dry and the soil five feet deep
or more lacked moisture. Compared
with conditions at that time, Kansas
To-Day is an agricultural paradise
Wichita Beacon.
A SUGGESTIVE INHIBITION.
patches, an attempt will be made by
the directors of the Wright Aeroplane
company to exact a pledge from Or
vile Wright, the survivor of the fam
Gus Wright brothers, that he will alb
stain absolutely from aerial flights,
ana Will under no circumstances oper-
ate an aeroplane. 1t is explained that
wright is the possessor of secrets in
connection with aviation upon which
the future developments of the heav-
ler-than air machine and the adj
Vancement of the art of aviation de-
pend. And the capitalists who are in
terested in the company fear that the
inevitable accident will occur to the
inventor and that his secrets and his
skill will die with him. In connec-
ton with this announcement, some
interesting facts have transpired. The
company exploiting the Wright aero
plane is capitalized at $1,OOO,OOO. and
the business has paid an annual divi-
dend of 20 per cent for the past three
years. Orville Wright is regarded as
the best expert aeroplane driver in
the world, and it is urged by his fl
nancial hackers that the common
good demands that he should not
venture into the air.-Leavenworth
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28

The Big Smudge may be in good
condition, but his complexion is such
that even the widest sport writer
would hesitate to announce that he
was lin the pink of perfection"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-20

arguing on her side. touched by her
whole hearted interest. and. In spite OF
my better judgment, pleased at the
prospect OF cOmpanionshlp.
VERY well." l said At length. you
can come" -.
Mrs. Lathrop shifted. THANK you"
she said; Il was going to do that any
how"
But" / went on. q uttls disconnected.
Il want you fully to realize that
really think you may run into some
danger. ! know this 10 q queer thinS
to say IN these modern times OF ours
but It has been proved to me already
that an INSCRIPTIONS man lighting Tor
his desire. and feeling himself above
or outside the law. will use unexpected
and dangerous weapons. OF course. X
You come / shall do my best TO pro-
tect you
protect nddlestlcke." said Mrs. Lath-
rop; you just get me on your mind
and I will do all the protecting that's
going to be done"
Very we'll" laughed. 1T merely
wanted 10 warn you. Now. Mrs I.ath-
rop, / have an errand TO do. or rather
couple Of errands. Would you rather
wait for me here. or would you rather
come along?"
II would rather come along" said
Mrs. Lathrop. What ara your err
rands?"
y thought in the nrst place that I
would look up detective agency and
get ono of their men to help rs"