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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
FAVOR NEW BALLOT LAW.

The expression of many public men
and newspapers over the state favor
ing the adoption of the Massachusetts,
ballot law suggested in the State
Journal a few days ago is indicative
of the sentiment of the voters in Kan
sas. The first returns" are radically
suggestive of a law that should be
passed by the legislature this session.
Without a doubt Kansas is tired
voting for eagles. ROSTERS and other
party emblems. The general scratch
ing of the ticket in the field in the
last election proved that Kansans, de-
spite their party loyalty, believe in
voting for the man rather than the
candidate who depends on the ticket
to pull him through. The hundreds
of Republicans in Shawnee county
alone who lodged in and out between
the Republican and Democratic coll
umns picking out their candidates re-
veal the determination of the voters
to cast their ballot for the man rather
than the bird or farm yard scene or
hand shake at the head of the col
umn.
Under the Massachusetts, system all
party emblems are abandoned. The
candidates are arranged in alphabet
zeal order under the head of the Of
flee with their politics designated af-
ter the name.
Here is an example of what Kan
sans are saying about the proposed
adoption of the Massachusetts, ballot:
From ]. c. Ruppenthal, Judge in the
twenty-third district at Russell:
Thank you most heartily for your
splendid editorial in Wednesdays
State Journal on "A New Ballot in
Kansas I hope the suggestion will
be adopted. We ought to get away
from political horse play and down to
common sense in ballots. 1 hope the
Democratic legislature this year will
listen to the needs of Kansans in vot-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
BACHHLoRs A GRAVY LOT.

Figures are not the matter Of fact
things that the unthinking believe.
lima gination turks in them, especially
in prediction estimates. Poetry is
there, too. at times, and now they
come with a flavor of romance that
irradiates them with d rosy glow,
that of the hearthstone.
A report Oh the causes which led to
insanity In the patients in the govern
ment hospitals and the station in life
of the inmates, which has just been
made to Walter Fisher, secretary OF
the interior. shows that insanity seizes
the bachelor with greater ease than the
benedict, despite the worry the mar
ried man is supposed to undergo. OF
the 5000 patients the overwhelming
majority are unmarried.
There's a reason" as the breakfast
food lad" trumpets forth. A slothful,
sluggish mind. one that runs on
creased wheels along smooth ways
doesn't always mean mental health
the brain, like all the other
members, needs exercise. If it isn't
used and used Alright it atrophies.
Now your bachelor has little, rela-
lively speaking. of this exercise for the
brain; that is, he doesn't have the
quick shifts, the jumping from one
alien subject to another. the tense at
tention which such acrobatics de-
mand, that are the lot of the mar
ried man.
Even if he is the head of big bus
mess, a successful man in the eyes OF
the world, his thoughts go along a
certain groove. In time they grow me-
chanical. He conducts his business
without the diversity of thinking which
is essential to sane and strong brain.
The married man has his worries
but they stimulate him. And he rs
his blessings in the abundance of sub
jects for thought and protection and
love which they bring. He doesn't
carry his business home with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
GLOBE SIGHTS
az THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

A Society Man must find some difficulty
furnishing excuses.
No one ever loses cheap umbrella ac-
cept II from the losers
So many think they need a stimulant
when the demand is for rest.
What mild winter woman encounters
after getting new fur set.
What a big blum one can make with a
little sTnattertng of knowledge.
Our notion of a great little platform, is
one which outlasts the campaign.
Who was the man who conceived the
idea that picket fences are ornamental:
Coming from behind, however, doesr't
represent the easiest way to get ahead.
Bill Bowens notion of hard luck is to
be born without a taste for music Or
gravy.
grows weary of wearing his hat out on
awnings
There is something wrong with the
grown person who won't let the children
make a little noise.
AS a matter of fairness we contend tha.
the man whe steals another's wife, should
take her away.
rather eat cauliflower than wear it fo-
son.
If q man marries a woman who can
make Prettier hats than the milliner. she
probably will quit it. They're such con-
trary creatures.
What is the idea of the publisher who
aSranges the leaves SO one must chase
clear through the book to locate the in
dex? We are curious to know.
A traveller informs us. there is a good
deal of cloudy weather IN sunny Italy
while another tourist testifies they speak
of the Golden West from the habit formed
out there eff taking 1t away from you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
ACCORDING to uncle Abner.

One job I wouldn't want is that of
weather surveyor at Medicine Hat.
1t Doesn't matter much what car you
bury, you don't have 1t more than fifteen
minutes before it is two years behind the
style.
william Tibbitts, our postmaster, says
he hates to think of 1-cent postage, for
then everybody will write letters and
there won't be any more postcards to
read.
There amt no Teller that kin act more
mysterious than the telegraph operator
In a small town.
Constable Ezra Hand requests that the
culpret who stole his star while he was
asiaeP in front of the Golden Nugget
saloon the other afternoon will please re-
turn the same and no questions will be
asked.
The season has arrived when the pubic
kin save a lot Of money that they have
hitherto been spending for punk water
melens.
It's a queer world. Before marriage
a Teller always wants to go buggy
rfdin' and the gal don't, and after
they are married she always wants to
go and he amt got no time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
GRAPES OF EsHCoL.

| have not entered in; across my way,
Shining and deep. silent river lies;
But sometimes, In the dawning OF the day,
see the vision of its vineyards rise.
And once, when joy and walked hand IN
hand,
One passed. his stan with purple cius-
tiers bent
The winey juices dripped along the sand,
And all the air throbbed fragrance as
he went.
He spake no word. but in his eyes there
TIE steady radiance of the evening star,
And weoing breath of music, lightly blown
BY ftful winds, came stealing from afar.
And still I wait till. on some raptured
morn,
Astir with wings, and tremuious with
light
The grapes of Eschol. through the desert
borne,
May CLEAN again upon my eager sight.
Tranquil and cool. a little path win run
Through smiling meadows downward te
the sea,
Through fruitful vineyards shining in the
sun,
And Joy. that fled. will walk again with
me.
Emily Huntington Miller, in the Gen.
fury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

CFrom the Chicago News.1
A man can be cordial without drink
ing 1t.
Some people fail to win because others
do not lose.
No man can stand in his own light with
out casting a shadow.
She is indeed a clever woman If she is
too clever to show 1t.
Occasionally one man may abuse an
other by pFaising his enemies.
Imitation humor may provoke more
genuine laughter than the real thing.
1t is difficult for a woman to enact the
dual role of Soul-mate and helpmate-
Some men are modest enough to ad1ri.
that they only know everything worth
knowing.
BY inducing man to run for office a
woman can discover his faults without
marrying him.
Only about one girl in a hundred can hit
what she aims at when she throws her
self at a mans head.
It's ne easy task to convince a farm er
that c1Gy people ever get up early enough
to do an hensSt days work.
Many a good wife is firmly convinced
that her husband doesn't harmonic with
anything in the house except the nutmeg
crater
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23

The affairs of home crowd that away.
Tommy's standing at school or his
lighting propensities-a splinter of old
blockism that he glories in-his wife's
list of interesting subjects and. alas.
some that are not SO pleasant. His
attention is always alert.
1t used to be the common belief
that rest was imperative, but science
now proves that It is diversity which
counts. Married men get this change;
they get with it, too. the sense of pro-
lection and affection which Is elemen-
tai In man. And they get reciprocal
love which is best of all. AS a rule,
married men don't go insane. They
are too busy and too happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
AYHAWKER JOTy

Despite the approach of winter the
Lincoln Sentinel advocates editorially,
| I'VE Ought to Have a Park
Are they reading the papers in Her
ington? One business man still has a
picture of Roosevelt in his show win
dow.
Now that the Growing is over it is
time to remark that the early hustler
captures the postoffice, remarks the
Marquette Tribune.
Now that the gratis of dog skin
have properly adhered and the lady
has left the hospital, she probably feels
dog on good, swears the Lawrence
Journal-World.
"And finally" says the Everett En-
terprise, 1.-The mail order house in
vaded the dentists business. The other
day farmer got his eye teeth cut by
a mail order house."
The next most unimportant thing to
the fielding averages of the American
League at the present time IS the cleo
ton news from California, is a sport
note in Ottawa Herald.
Farm Improvement note in Ottawa
Republic: Considering the number of
letters of advice that Governor Wilson
sent him with a farmers silo as a
waste basket.
The Atchison Globe editor appar-
emily has children in school. He says:
Changing the map of Europe will add
further to the cost of living by afford
ing the highbrows and highbinders an
excuse for a new set of school books.
A President Bush excuse from La
Cygne Record: We hate to dish UP
news in Missouri Pacific style, but last
week we forgot to mention the visit
OF the Arkansas on Wheels special
train, and it was too good an exhibit
ton of business sense, booster spirit
ana enterprise toNoverlook entirely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
QUAKER MnDTrArToNs.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record
Many a man has discharged a duty he
didn't knew was loaded.
A small bsy's definition of appetite is
something to get hungry with.
The great trouble with helping some
people out is that they went say out
Theories generally work well on paper,
but fountain pen isn't a theory.
It's hard to make n pretty mfrl under
stand why We shouldn't Judge by appear
ancas.
It is quite possible to give a man a
line Of back talk without talking about
him behind his back.
About the time a man gets SO old he
has nothfng to look forward to he begins
to get SEINE foresight.
The average young man never beRins
to think seriously about marriage until
he has been married tive or three msnths
"a woman il a paradox" remarked the
Cynical Bachelor. 'WSR0a are called the
fair sex because they are SO unARE."
Blebbs-"GuEler says he on1y drinks
whisky for the sake of his bOa1th." Sloh5s
It'd hate to be as unhealthy as GuKEler -
Cynicus-"T enoe knew a fellow whe
gave girl an engagement ring Of opals. >"
EIHcus-'FWas it unluety?" Cynieus-
you bet IT was She married him."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23

look up at the cheerful boyish face
and at the thick curly hair and lines
that turned upward, every one OF
them, from much smiling at WINDY
fight alone in the great, dreary city.
She had felt she could surely get
good position here in the busy nom
day season as milliner, but II seemed
she was too late. The work was al
ready done. There would be a lull'
they had told her, until the spring
season opened. She smiled. 1t seemed
as If the spring was opening aheao OF
time for her, spring with all its prom
ise Of sunny days and soft southern
winds, and springing flowers.
Il amt much on style, grille, =
went on Barty, but I'd love you like
the dickens, and you'd get the pay en-
Velepe regularly, and you can bet your
sweet life the installment man would
mt be knocking on the door, nor the
gas man either. Maybe the first day
you're able to get out we could go oV-
er and take look at the lot. It's
out south toward Bayonne. 1 always
like to smell the sea, don't you?
thought I'd get transferred on the Jer-
sey lines after 1 found the right girl
some day, so as to be near home. say
Elsie, don't you like that word? amt
pushing you, dear, or asking you to
decide right off. But think it over,
will you %
Tn thinking now" said Elsie, her
voice hardly above a whisper. You'll
never know how 1 felt when you lean
ed out and caught me up in your
arms, Barty. 1t seemed so wrong then
what 1 had wanted to happen just
a minute before. felt like a coward
to try to run out by the back door of
life. I think you're awfully kind to
me-"
aBrty leaned over suddenly. Then,
when he Strengthened, back, he reach
ed for his hat.
That's all right" he- told her.
Who's got a better right Guess I
can kiss my future wife, can't I g? Wen
make it the week after you get out
of here, and I'll wire mother about it.
Shall II"
IF you like Elsie's 1ashes were
downcast, and her face very pink.
Barty stared down at her rapturously.
BLESS that fender!" he said
Copyrighted 1912, by McClure's News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
RY IHE WAY
BY HARVEY PARsoNA

One of the seven little governors
escaped defeat. He wasn't running
Tor anything. Had some KIND frleno
induced him to run for dog catcher
/ In re a recent personal experience:
One of the secrets of success in the
grocery business, is: always close
promptly on the minute before the
clock strikes closing time. when
busy householder tries to run In after
, a pound of creamery butter-Wlthout
which supper would be a butterless
mockery-make quick rrn-not the
kind of run utilized in waiting on Gus
tom ers-but a real run, and slam the
store door against the nose or the
would-be customer. stunt like tnal
is a great saving to the store ana the
clerk in charge II saves the troeni 3
the fatigue incident to Jabbing the
keys of the cash register.
A Spokane gent has sued his physi-
clan for damages. Doc SAID patlent
was due to croak; patient, to skin GER
tain undesirable heirs, pulled an un-
profitable business deal. Lives-wants
Doc to pay damages because he failed
to die as per schedule. DOCS oe1ense
should be an apology for not making
good.
State Temperance Union should look
into this Beers case LOOKS IKE a
chance for some spotter to secure EVIL
dence (and fees).
ST. Louis packing house employee
who gave away his 2-day old baby
was canned by his employers. rack
ing houses never waste anytn1ns.
Perhaps they thought he should have
sold 1t.
Bill Finn is going back to the Re
publican party, according TO warnings
issued by the Associated Press. Tnus
warned, 1t is their own fault II the
Republicans do not hasten to lock the
doors and fasten all the windows.
From the case of Henry Ogee, who
was frisked by Pinkerton detectives
in Kansas City, one might gather that
the Pinks are on duty during the
port dog watch, while the Boy Ban
dts are eating supper.
"Yuh don't haf-tuh be liar tub be
gossip an public nuisance;
Observation-Disclosures always on-thuh-
job truth teller is a worse pest than
thuh champion liar of thuh world"
'Hetty Green is II, but money is
so DANCED skurse she could git mar
ried inside of week."-Deacon
Squash.
Chewing tobacco threatens to be-
come a lost art with the next gem
Grafton. It is admitted that boys learn
to chew tobacco during their school
age, and boys have quit wearing high
top boots and have no place to spit
during school hours.
It Is said that the whislzer is on
its way back to general use. The re-
turn of the whislzer should eliminate
lot of prejudice against the safety
razor. Nearly any man could keep
the hair off his nose and the soles of
his feet with a safety razor, and not
cuss about it all the time, either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
EVENING CHAT
Sy KrTz cA-asERoN.

Do you remember George ColemanP
Perhaps you have forgotten the name
about him some time ago in your news
paper, for he is the young bank cashier
While W e 0T fer ST week stse nesrly
half a miTffon dollars and was sentenced
to fifteen years imprisonment
After the sentence had been passed Miss
Htshtower, the SRI on whom he had Law
islhed much ef his Money and to whAa1 he
WAS engaged, declared that she still loved
write to him as often as the rules allowed
and would marry him when he got out of
prison.
Needless to say his mother also declared
that whatever the world might think of
her son she still loved him and believed
in him, and would always do all she could
TOR him during his prison term and after
wa<dS.
In one of the yellow newspapers a pic
Query as to which would be- true to ON h,n
the longest. That question is now an
sWered fsr the other day 1 read this item
in my paper: Miss Mamie Hightower OF
Kansas City, the girl who stood by George
w. Coleman, the young Cambridge bank
wreoS<er, go stsAnohly when he was sent
neither writes to him nor calls on him.
seeording to dispatches received from
read another dispatch chronicling Miss
Rjghtower's marriage to another man.
That Is what two years have done for a
But the little mother is still true to her
boy.
The superintendent of another big prison
was telling about the prisoners relation
ship with their friends in the outside
world. THE wives and sweethearts are
very afectionate at first he said. "Thev
write and visit the prison often the
rules aIlsw. But it doesn't usually take
more than a year or two for their fervor
to eoel and bye-and-bye they don't come at
an IN almost every case the only person
who still waits for a man after a long
term is his mother
Dent things like that make you do some
thinking about the infinite miracle of
mothers lsve?
I'll tell ysu what I thought of when 1
saw that item. I remembered a little
story read years ago. Once upon a time
there was q man who was fneaRe1y in love
with very beautiful but very wick.d
and Jealous woman. This vampire de-
cls=e6 that she would not believe he loved
her mere than anyone else In the world
until he should bring his mothers heart
to her. The crininaily infatuated man
finally did this, and, as he was bringing
it he stumbled and fell, whereupon the
mSther's bleeding heart cried out, 'rDidst
Ert thyseIf son ?"
There are many beautiful things in this
beautiful world of ours. but do you think
thSt IN all the height and breadth of it
there Is anything more beautiful or won
6erful than mothers lover
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
says UNCLE CIV

The golde apples of hearts desire
are for = those who reach for them.
They never fall of the tree into any
body'ss hat. They grow upon every
apple tree, but not every one who
desires golden apples recognizes them
when he sees them. Whether an APP
pie is golden or not depends a good
deal upon the way you look at 1T. Also
old saying, that what some men touch
turns to gold,
Opportunity seldom stares any one
in the face. She is an ever present,
but heavily yelled and exceedingly coy
creature. She is just about as for
ward as a rosy-cheeked country lass
at her first shocking bee, balanced
betw en- hope and terror of the red
golden apple isn't gold until you have
t lure that will make opportunity
disclose herself-you have the golden
touch of -dieas and you needn't wear
ASS ears to exercise it.
One of the great problems of the
age is the elimination of waste. Cut
the waste out of any business i'm
aginabIe and you have the world at
your feet-that's big problem in
volving simple things. Look about
you-go to work on it. The humblest
clerk or mechanic will find Oppor-
tunity smiling at him if he looks In
that direction.
We know a good deal about cleo
tricity-it's a familiar thing in these
DAYS. But we also know that it
should be produced more eheaply and
that it should be conveyed at smaller
cost. There's another nut to crack
one that you, Mr.. Electrician, have
been ignoring. Help yeurself-and if
WI help yourself earnestly enough
you'll presently find that nut golden
apple.
we are 1uilding some of the best
roads in the world in America to-day.
But the formula is far from perfect.
there's another simple problem for
men in positions humble or high to
solve in a simple way. Work 1t out
and take your place in the Hall of
Fame.
few years hence your country will
face the necessity of importing food
stuffs If you or somebody else does not
find a way in which to increase pro-
duction. Great minds and little are
seeking ways to make two stalks OF
grain grow where one grew before.
rs another commonplace problem
that is fraught with unbelievable pos
sibilities. You may as well find the
solution as another-and it's golden
apple fer the one who grasps 1t.
There are millions of these prob
lens, as familiar our doorsteps,
which we overlook because we know
that they are always there. The SIM
pIest thing you do holds possibilities
&C DEVELOPMENT into an epochmaking
human service. The golden apples are
there-there for those who reach for
them. Help yourself-(Copyr
1912, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
EROA OTHER pERS
THE REAL RoY


The only real people in the world are
seys-1ust Boys. After Baternai indul-
gree has ch ian to psternal judsme.it.
there is a brief period when boys are
boys. Girls are always girls, and that
means that they are always a little some
thing besides Themselves little self-con-
scfousnass, little desire to be liked and
ADMIRED. Not SO with the real boy, a.
though, of course, he deeS not last long
In that PrecaTious and all too natural
state. &c fishing or rabbit shooting with
him. or, better with a crowd OF him, some
day, and pretend that you are nobody II
him II you are very wise and careful
you will get your reward. You will see
honesty, you will hear h0nesty-naybe
you VIII almost begin to understand hon
Ssty. He went ray what he thinks he
ought to say. or what he thinks you ex-
Peet him to say. He will say what hs
more than you expect him to think. He
has no theories or PHILOSOPHERS or sciences
er arts to b0re him. Watch him while he
fights, and listen while he talks to HIS
right and wrong. All things are easy and
simple to him. There is no mystery and no
uncertainty. Ne wonder he is awkward
their Peint Of view? what does he knew
a asou b polite 30. so9isty and vanity fairY he
interest in life is the business at hanA
and he does not four-f1ush about that
ne Wonder ne does not want to wear d
Et1n coilsr and does net care about wash
Ing his hands. He himself is not the OBJ
jest of living. He cannot waste time and
attentaSn on Just himself And, what is
or care that other people are Thinking
about ktpa. There are too many things to
lsern. How fine It would be II he could
in1ossible when the moment of the real
boy Is so fleeting he is not generally
known to exist at ail.-Indianapoiis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
HU5Eoa or TIE DAY

Howard-Hasn't Bachelor waited rather
long before choosing wife? Coward
Bless you, no! He's emily had a marryIns-
income since he was 6o.-Life.
Scott-Never borrow trouble. Mott
aon't neeA to- have a large stock en-
hsAd.-Doston Transcript.
Coutentneut consists in the temporarv
forgetfu1Hess OF the things we would ike
to have nexf.-Puck.
The way a girl tells her shoes are not
too small for her Is it's because her feet
are swellen.-New YOrk Press.
+
Are you going to keep your now cool. p,
7 can't tell. We agn't know yet vyhetbar
we will suit her. Opinfen
Wne-What mates you so happy? Ma
that letter contain a check? Huf-HSo
but It didn't contain a biIl-Boston Trse,,
script. AZ
wont you do something for the frSzh-
ar fundF TN make speech. ssTlla,,S
you but we have all the wind we De--a Is -
Louisville Courier Journal ".