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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
SAYS UNCLE CIV

I am not one of those whose little
faith sees every mans hand at the
throat of his brother and social an
archy in the absence of statutes. 1t
is true that every mans hand is
against every other-to a certain linn
tied extent. But my neighbours hand is
not at my throat. Often it reaches
for my hand and gives me lift over
the. slippery places.
tt is true that there seems to be
no practical way of getting rid of the
competitive system, but it is also true
that competition is softened in a mil
lion ways. and that where the strong
Cypress the weak there are legions of
other strong who come to their de-
Tense.
There is more in the universal
brotherhood dream than most of us
guess. It's a good old world, ana
while we're here we fight and cheat
and help and love each other in true
brotherly fashion. We give blows and
take them, and in good time we ad-
mire and trust the hand that srnites
US. We have our little troubles, but
the quality of human sympathy is not
strained and it droppeth as the gen.
tie rain pretty generally on the just
and the unjust.
We are not altogether happy in ex-
treme proximity to some folks that
we know, and we object right serious
~ to the heathenish hygiene and SAM
tation practiced by some others, but
the hand that has evolved beyond the
ape stage seldom lacks another hand to
clasp it. and there is usually a little
of the good feeling left over for our
distant cousin, the monkey.
Drop any given number of human
beings from any given country or climc
upon an uninhabited island, and in five
minutes you have a semblance of gov
which is fair play and the protec-
ton of the weak from the strong.
Placed in the balance against the So
cial, cohesive tendencies of humanity,
the anti-social, dispersive tendencies
are practically negligible. What seem
to be anti-social symptoms are usually
the result of whisky, drugs, frayed
nerves, dyspepsia or plain unadorned
madness.
Realization of these facts is mighty
good for the pessimist. There is nc
room outside the desert or a hospital
for the insane for Ishmael Even tho
desert tempers it's fever of hate, while
the sad wrecks of mentality who glib
Der in the halls of the mad reach
out, with their last flicker of reason,
for comforters. 1t requires more thar
wars and rumors of wars to upset the
proposition that the whole world Is
kim and the pessimist has something
the matter with his mental vision.-
Copyright, 1912, by w. 2. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

when young and old come forth to
play
On sunshine holiday - Milton.
Did it ever occur to you that there
is too much segregation of ages in
present day society?
1t seems to me that there is. 1t
seems to me that the occasions when
young and old come forth to play to-
gether are not half so common as
they should be for the good of either.
The young folks have their good
times, and the older folks have theirs,
and very seldom does it occur to eth
er generation that they could have
a better time if they Joined forces
once in awhile.
The mother of one of the college
girls who graduated last year gave her
daughter a series of parties last fall.
And the list of guests comprised not
only the girls of her daughters age,
but also many of these girls mothers
and of her own personal friends.
People wondered somewhat at this
and the hostess said THAT is the way
personalities among the women of my
age that 1t will do my daughter good
to meet, and want her to meet them.
think each generation flockS by it
self too much. 1t makes us both mar
row to do that; we don't get each
others point of view. 1t does girls
good to meet older women and it
keeps older women young to meet
young SlTlS. I1cDCSIOTIl L dILl nOI gu
ing to have an special age limits for
my parties. They will be made up of
congenial people of every age"
What a pity it is that more mothers
do not have this spirit.
Incidentally, it should be added.
these parties were a notable success.
At a little informal gathering of
young people which I attended the
other evening, the hostess was inspir-
ed to send across the street and ask
the father and mother of one of the
guests to come in and swell the num-
Der. These older folks were very jol-
ly, interesting people, and let me tell
you we had just about twice as good
a time after they Joined US as we did
before.
These are two instances where wise
people on either side of the gap of
years bridged it, and were rewarded
by finding what a very good time
one generation may have with an
other.
Let us have more such instances. I
am sure they will be followed by more
such rewards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
ny THE WAY
By HARVEY PARsoHER

Up in Atchison they are pulling each
others hair over an alleged postonce
scandal. OF course they put it on until
after the 18th of Baliewaggener. They
The ructionist who started a ruct1on
on that day would have been tossed
into the turgid Missouri at the foot or
Commercial street.
New Yorker is sueing a dentist on
the grounds that said dentist pulled
tooth and then dropped it into the In
terror of the plaintiff. But he will have
but little luck. Most any dentist can
testify that man is entitled to GER
tain number of stomach teeth.
Pardon US for suspecting that the
New York police order to shoot all un-
muzzled dogs, is simply an overflow of
the general order to shoot all unmuz-
Zled gamblers?
During the past year, postoffice in
spectors have made 1903 arrests, put
quotations on gold bricks preferred still
stands at about 971z. When a maui
order crook is pinched, two grow where
one grew before. And when lollop
is ''stinged," three lollops jump up ana
take his place.
Pinching a large number of New
York gun men, is good for the news
papers-and what is good for the news
papers is entertaining to the general
public, but here stands a perfectly good
short-horse bet: Two ten-cent fumas 10
one that the man who really emptled
an automatic into the system of the
defunct gambler, will not be caught or
punished.
Gun men do not come cheap. They
work one day in a year, and expect to
live during the remaining 1854. And
man who has the ability to do real gun
work, wants pay for his services.
He also wants. and gets, protection.
This department claims to be some
naturalist. In our time we have par
tally tanned alligators, wilckitties,
coyotes, Florida Crackers and bull
frogs. But the bull moose is an ami
NAL we have never added to our zoo.
But we hold that the name was well
chosen. No party, with the same poll
teal standing ever produced anything
like it.. 1t should, however, be qualified
in type. Print it thusly: BULL
moose"
Personal request to Marshall's band:
At the next open air concert, please
pIay,-if you have music in stock-Ju-
ventino Rosas' "Over the waves"
'Hovantino Ro-has" died a pauper
in New Orleans. Years later. Mexico
realized that one of its favor'te sons
had been neglected. So the dirt where
Rosas was buried was shipped to Mex
leo and a national hoo-raw was de-
clared. A hundred bands did their best
with Sober las Olas,'' and a hundred
wslIeS over. the sad finish Of their mus
- - - - - =
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lost!'' rang in his ears above the grind
ing OF the mill.
Pa Remsen had heard all the re-
ports as they came out, and at length
the time came when he must talk.
ma, what does it all mean?" he
ooh, it's you. is it?" was answered.
out?"
Eyes; but"
And you do iti'
But what's kitty doing up in the
orchard? Some tramp may come
along and yell at her. I guess I'LL
You guess nothing! Don't you go
near the orchard, and don't you call
her!"
He went off to work in the corn
field. but an hour later came tiptoe-
ing back to the house to say:
Martha, there's a tramp skulking
in the orchard!"
Tramp nothing, you old hen. I
really believe you are getting blind!
Go back to your work."
1t was only half an hour this time
before pa returned to say:
There's tramp right up to Kitty
and talkin' with heri I'm goin' out
and"
He was whirled around and flung
down on a chair, and 1t was two ar
three minutes before the wife said:
Earl Andrews to stay to supper. It's
him out there with Kitty
Gosh all hem1ock.
"And you'd have split the hull
thing"
''Then-then-"
Then you shet up. I never did
see what cabbage heads men are over
maxim up lovers .quarrels. Jest go out
and hang around the back door in a
keerless way, and when they come up
you ask Earl to have a glass of but
termilk to stay his stomach till I can
get the love feast ready."-(Copy-
righted 1912 by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
GLOBE SIGHTS
ny THE ATCHISOE GLOBE.

Don't try to show your Courageous
Spirit by kicking cripple
Economy shouldn't be allowed to cripple
the laundry business.
There isn't much hope for the man who
is proud of his fits of anger.
The average plumber Is deliberate
enough to grace the United States SEN
ate chamber.
Many political booms are sown, but only
a few of them yield much in the NoVem-
Der harvest.
Link sausage is a pretty fair representa-
ton of a dispeptic's notion of rious dis
sipat1on-
Probably a woman wouldn't talk any
more If she had larger vocabulary, but
a man will.
Very few people have been able to de-
wise a recall measure they can apply to
the elusive dollar.
So few people get champagne, that
there is a suspicion among many that It
is made of sour grapes.
One of the great injustices of wars is
that the men who start them seldom do
any of the fighting
One must concede that John D. Rookie
Teller is something of genius, regard
less of his scarcity of hair.
Church White got mad at a tall report
er today, and said: IF I had step lad
der 1 would kick you in the stomach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Neither does the man without enc
mics or critics amount to much.
n y
Almost every man has an idea that
he is getting shade or more the worst
of It.
No matter how dull a girl may be she
doesn't require any assistance to learn
to love.
And isn't it convenient to cover up
extraVagances with complaints against
the high cost of living?
y 4
There Is this advantage to an olo
straw hat. After the straw hat sea-
son is Few weeks old it looks as good
as new one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
HISTORY.

Past is the past" But no, it is not past:
In us, in US, it Quickens, wanes, aspires:
And on our hearts the unknown Dead
have cast
The. hungers and the thirst Of their
desires.
Unknown the pangs. the peace we too
prepared
What shakes this bosom shall rever-
berate
Through ages unconceived; but In dark
lair
The unguessed. unhoped. undreaded is
sues wait.
Our pregnant acts are all unprophesied.
We dream sublime conclusions; destine
plan,
Build and unbuiId: yet turn no jot aside
The something infinite that moves in
man.
We write The End where fate has scarce
begun;
And no man knows the thing that he has
done.
Laurence Binyn. in oxford and Cam
bridge Review.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
HARDER TO WIN NEXT oLYMP1AD

WIN
In some respects the most important
phase of the Olympic games this year
is the evidence furnished of a great
widening of popular interest in ath-
letic sports. Nations have plunged
heartily into the world competition for
honors won by strength, skill, courage
and endurance which, until very re-
Gently. paid little or no attention to
such tests of physical proves.
This change is going on with in
creasing rapidity. 1t is progress
which gathers momentum as the years
go by. In 1916, when the athletes of
the world gather in the capital of Ger
many, the number of men hard for
champions to beat will be greater than
ever before and more nations will be
we'll represented than have yet taken
part in any O1ympiad
The countries which have led the
world, hitherto, in these fine tourna-
ments are going to have their work
cut out for them next time as they
never have had in the past. Germany
for instance, will certainly be much
harder for the United States and
Great Britain to overcome than that
great nation has been in any OIympiad
yet held. What Sweden and Finland
have done at Stockholm is sufficient to
encourage all countries, even the
smallest, to pit their best athletes
against the Drawn, stamina and skill
of the world.
Well, the more the merrier. The
wider the competition the greater the
glory of victory. However vast the
army of athletes may be four years
from now in the splendid metropolis of
Germany. the American team will GER
tainly keep well to the front. Num-
bers cannot daunt the nation which
has triumphed in the latest and great
est Olympiad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
HU1HOR or TIE DAY

IT hate to see any one change his mind
compromising person. "And yet" replied
Senator Sorghum, 'if none of us he'd
changed our minds or sacrificed our first
ideals, most of us would be circus
clowns. '-Washington Herald.
Always in a Mix.-Bouttown-Bet not
go to the st. Fashion hotel. Their bill of
fare is in French. Cultured Friends Qn-
dignantly)-I can understand French.
Bouttown-Yes, but the walters can't, and
neither can the cook.-Foster, in New
York Weekly.
True Economy.-F'riend-Wh do you
wear those fearful1y old-fashdoned coli
lars? Winkers "a man of afrairs)-Be-
cause. when the washerwoman sends
back.-Foster. in New York Weekly.
She'll Make 1t Fly.-Mother-I really
think you'd be happier If you married a
man who had less money. Daughter
Don't worry, mother; he will have less in
very short time.-Boston Transcript.
Does your son realize the RESPONSIBLE
ties of great Wealth. 'fI fear not" sigh
ed the eminent magnate. He can't seem
to learn auction bridge, and he shows no
signs Of wanting to- marry a chorus girl"
Courier-Journal
1t was at 10 and 15-cent vaudeville
ticket window. country vilIager APP
preached. Ten or fifteen?'' asked the
ticket seller '.Jist ONE said the vi1Iager.
Il hain't got the family slons."-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago Nevs.1

II IUIn me chicago newell
After so a virtue may become a habit.
Many a public reformer is a private
CRATER.
It is the accidental epigram that ac-
quires the most fame.
Never forget that it pays to be polite
even If you don't mean it.
If you would enjoy your work take an
occasional day off and loaf.
An cyclists excuse for not knowing
more is that it isn't worth knowing.
It's awfully hard for the average man
to keep his yellow streak under cover.
And some men seem 20 think it is to
their credit to lie about their truthful
ness.
The average man spends most OF his
time doing what some particular woman
wants him to do.
OF course you feel bad when the other
feiloW gets what you want, but think
how good it makes him feel.
In leap year girl may get him for the
asking; in other years she may get him
without the Trouble OF asking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

II this new Roosevelt party has such
a tremendous following throughout the
country and such bright chances for
an ultimate success at the polls. as
some of its enthusiasts claim. why is it
that one or more of its prominent MEM
bers are not disposed to contest with
the Colonel for its presidential nominal
ton? There must be any number of
men in the party who consider them
seives quite as competent as the Col
onel to serve as the nations chief ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
KANSAS cOMMENT
THE REAL sITUATION.

1t is vociferously proclaimed that
the Roosevelt supporters in Kansas
are not going into the third party
movement but will support Roosevelt
electors on the Republican ticket. The
inference is given, If the statement is
not clearly made, that those who do
this are consistently Republican and
not third-partyites.
1t seems to us that this is deception
although not intended as such by
some. This policy does not affect mere
ly Kansas. The new party which is
organizing in Missouri, Illinois and
other states looks with pleasure upon
this policy in Kansas, which would
not be the case if it were not in lire
with their plans to destroy the Re-
publican party. One must keep in
mind that outside of Kansas and per-
haps two or three states, the Progress
sive party is not claiming to be pro-
gressive Republican. 1t is organizing
not only to beat Taft but to estab-
lish new party. and the success of
scheme to capture the Republican
party in Kansas would help materially
to destroy the Republican party, its
avoWed purpose nationally. Mr.. Roose-
welt has cut loose from the Repub-
lican party, as he has a right to do
He is not pretending to be progress
sive Republican, but to form third
party which shall continue. He has a
right to demoralize the Republican
ganization in a few states, as side
help to his new party in the other
states. He repudiates the "Repuhli-
cam name everywhere he can. All of
this is fair enough but it is right TO
recognize the facts and not try to
fool ourselves. The Progressive Re-
publican" business in Kansas is de-
signed and will help the anti-Republi
can cause everywhere else. If this il
the object Of the Republican voter he
should vote his sentiments. II he
thinks he can be a Progressive Re
publican" in Kansas without aiding in
destroying the Republican party in
other states and nationally, he is mis-
taken. All he has to do to realize
this fact is to read the plans of the
new Roosevelt party outside of Kansas
and notice the chuckle of the new
party organs over the smooth way
they expect to destroy the Republican
party in Kansas a little later.-Hutch-
inson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New

LFrom the New York Press.1
The fun you pay for is more fun to the
man you pay it to.
What a man can't understand is how a
woman would rather write letters than
enjoy herself.
The capacity of a mans family to spend
money is only limited by his capacity to
get it for them.
A man is always willing to get himself
IN trouble; he wants everybody to lend a
hand at pulling him out.
There's nobody's honesty a woman is SO
suspicious of as the husband of a woman
VINO buys her more clothes than her hus-
band can
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
FRUITS OF SOIL AND sPIRTT.

Palestine is fast becoming one of
the great orange-growing countries
of the world. Much fruit of excel
dent quality is being shipped every
year to London and other markets in
northern Europe, and this year the
crop of the district near jana, the
port of Jerusalem, is estimated at l.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

Italy's lack of good judgment in ma
val and military matters is again evil
denced by its sending a fleet of torpedo
beats to attack the Turkish forts at
the entrance to the Dardanelles. As
ssulting modern forts is a job for bat
tleships of the largest type.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

Speaking of those individuals who
are easily parted from their money,
how about that millionaire bachelor
who has Joined the Mexican rebels
Won't he be rare picking for them?
That's all they've ever been after,
little easy money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
DAFFYDHS
BY u. NOALL.

technic?
(That will be about all from you.
Harold.)
Does the cold spell when the heat
waves?
Gland me a cake of ice. please.)
If supper is slow is breakfast?
(No, thank you. I don't care for
any more prunes.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

Talking politics in Texas is a risky
business to say the least One man was
killed and two were seriously injured
at San Antonio the other day as the
finale of a political argument. How
ever, this method is not without its
advantage It brings a political argu-
ment to a conclusion, and that is some
thing which doesn't often happen when
guns are not used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

No less an authority than the New
York Times declares that the gangsters
of that city are not pogoniate. Thus
Is another base suspicion dispe1led.
And incidentally pogoniate is word for
the genial editor of the Kansas Farmer
-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
HOPELESS EFFoRr.

Republicans do not care whether
candidates for office were Taft sup
porters or Roosevelt supporters before
the national convention, but would be
willing to support them regardless OF
former preferences If they play fair
and support the national ticket now.
Republicans are not going to support
a ticket which ignores the national
ticket and platform and which is
headed by Roosevelt third term cleo
tors and on which are the names of
candidates for United States senator.
governor and congressman who are
giving their aid to the third party.
Stubs. Capper. Rees & Co. are dig
ging their own political graves. II
they win nominations they will go
down to defeat and will probably
drag the whole state and country tick
cts with them. Republicans will
march to victory or defeat under the
banner of William H. Taft. No Re
publican ticket can win under the
banner of Wilson, Roosevelt or any
other third party leader.-Osborn
Farmery 80. -f-r..e. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

Colonel Roosevelt certainly has one
tough nut to crack. He is wondering
how he will direct the deliberations cf
the national convention of his new
party without assuming the role of a
ssh0sr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

Naturally, the weather men are just
as proficient in predicting the arrival
OF hot waves in midsummer as they
are in calling the turn on the approach
OF cold waves, in midwinter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

And the rain came in Kansas just
10 time to help out the corn crop won
derfully. Another good rain in the next
week or ten days, and Kansas. this fall,
will be a veritable land of milk and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

Any number of people are complain
ing about the heat these days but what
kind of weather is it reasonable to ex-
pect in the midst of the good, old
summer time?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

AS was to have been expected. just
as soon as Madero fastened the jinx
on Orozco. that other rebel chief, "a
pata, renewed his activities en- an
deliberately murderous scale. Poor old
Mexico! Her immediate future is not
one to enthuse over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

Neither is there any reason to be-
lieve that with the Third party it will
be a case of the last being first when
the presidential ballots are counted
next November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

Don't forget, Mr.ssVoter, if you are
not registered. that you must do so
by Friday of this week if you are TO
have the privilege of participating in
the primaries on August g.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

This is carrying the souvenir fad al
together too far. More than twenty
metal articles were found by surgeon
In the stomach of a California woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23

There seems to be a natural affinity
between cards and bullets, chips and
knives. It crops out in New York just
as it does in Arizona.