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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

sees in hones but Miss Holmes fad
ed from the picture not at all. In mis-
revere he saw her sitting opposite him
at the dream table-and then Benja-
back to earth with rush. He was
in love. He was certain of it, despite
the novelty Of the sensation.
Mr.. Holbrook was accustomed to di-
rect methods.
Miss Holmes. can you still safely
say that there is no prospect of your
making business a stepping stone to
marriage?" he asked suddenly.
Miss Holmes was also in a reverfe.
She came out of it in confusion.
II think so,'' she managed to gasp.
Then there is q doubt?"
Yes; there is doubt" she admitted.
it,"
"Oh, am not thinking of resigning,' .
she protested.
II am not asking you to give the
business the benefit of the doubt. Miss
Holmes; 1 am asking you to give it 20
me. desire you to resign. Can't you
see what L am getting at? love you.
want you to be my wife"
Wouldn't that be playing hob with
the business?'' she asked after a pause,
smiling through her bushes.
Mr.. Holbrook rose from his chair and
started toward her She fed to the
door in panic and paused with her
hand on the knob.
THE business is Injured to such ex-
periences by this time he laughed,
still going toward her. "You must re-
member that my own romance has a
quartet of precedents right here in the
office However, it shall be the last:
for my next confidential stenographer
shall be man."
Miss Holmes covered her face with
her hands as he reached for her
II that is the case, B-Benjam
she murmured, ''you might begin TO
look around for the man."-(Copyrigh
1872, by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
SAYS UNCLE CIV

When youth takes the bit in MS
teeth and goes in for 16 hours work
day it's hard to say him nay, and
that way. youth be strong enough,
lies early success. But few real sur
cesses are won before 40 and the over
time you put in now draws nightly
upon regular time 10 and 20 years
hence
Most men fall down on the home
fstretch. Too bad that he was cut
off in his prime the very threshold
of success is a remark made over too
many biers. Usually, the man WHO
dies at 40 and leaves the incomplete
structure of his achievements to top
pie after him is merely paying up ma
ture for the overdrafts of youth. And
these OVerdraftS are not always charge
able to the account of dissipation. FIRE.
Quently they are, but a combination OF
OVerwork and worry is responsible for 4.
few, but when overwork begins to tell,
the victim begins to worry and worry
kills. 1t is a slow poison, but sure.
If you can work 10 hours day, sleep
worry, go ahead. You are one of the
blest of earth and in the handicap race
of success you are as good as a winner
But don't keep it up too long. There are
limitations even to your wonderful
gifts, and no man can live and make
good for long without play. When you
can't get up in the morning feeling
fresh and eager for the fight, when
you suffer from periodical physical de-
preston, when the blues begin to get
you. change your ways. Nature IS
warning yoll of the overdraft. Get out
and play for awhile each day. Alternate
your JOY of labor with the joy of recre-
alton. Take the air. Fresh air does
more to kill worry and prolong life
than everything else in the world.
Don't try TO live your life all at once.
If you do, you'll die a failure on the
threshold of success. There is no to-
morrow, but there will be other todays.
Minutes are the coin current of sue
cess and you dare not let one slip pro-
fitlessly through your fingers. But no
dog-tired man ever made other good
use of a minute than to rest.-(CoPy-
right, 1912, by w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

Injury.


When homeward from his busy day the
toiIer travels far
He'll simply push button Wnen ne
wants to stop the car;
The man will pull lever and the door
will open wide.
And gently jolt him down the step into
the street outside.
A button he will press to start the ele-
vator's flight;
Another button floods the room with sort
electric light.
And then to cheer the WEAKNESS that
comes at close of day
He throws a switch and turns crank
and let's the music play.
oh. what's the good of hands and feet
and what's the good of brain,
When with such little effort men such
ample service gain?
What call is there to strive and wait
and theorize and guess,
When all you need is to decide which
button you will press?
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
ADKER Using Talks
By WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

We are all apt to underestimate the
power Of the inconspicuous advertisement
For instance, we look at page after page
of the small classified advertisements,
and the majority of us just give them
casual notice and form sighting impress
sion of their value because they do not
particularly appeal to our needs
That is the trouble with us all in esti-
mating the value of other things besides
advertising. Very few of us can judge
of the needs of people other than our
that thing from our own viewpoint only
without taking into consideration the
views of other people.
But it pays, in the advertising business
especially, to study even the little things
one of the younger and more progress
sfve of the advertising men in New York
is Mr.. Frank McCabe, who is director
general of the million or more want ads
that are printed yearly in the New York
World.
address on the relation of classified 04s
vertising. to newspaper success, and one
incident he cited emphasized the power OF
Mr.. Edward Earl, president of to
Nassau National bank. who recently c eie-
that institution, got his JOB by replying
to a want ad in the New York newspa-
pers He started there in small way
and evidently did his work well, because
the time came when he was elected presi-
dent of the bank
every man who answers II a bank presi-
dent. but IL he gets job through an ad-
vertjsement, if he has the right material
in him, there is no telling where he VIII
land - ,...
r,,ents. we never know when we are GO
ing to be benefited by reading them
therefore, read them all
CTo be continued)
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
The confirmed GROWER is usually ali
froth.
Food for thought is brewed on the fire
of genius.
Men turn back because they don't put
UP a bold front.
If you stand up for yourself you have
got to sit down on other people.
Persons who take the cash and let the
credit go forget the cash registers.
There are some things in the world we
can't understand murmured the Wise
Guy. Quite true" answered the Simple.
Mug. but how long have YOU been mar
ried?''
Procrastination isn't the only thief
Some persons take advantage, a reporter
goes into music store to pick I'D notes,
and even a baby will rob you of sleep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

the leadership of their rebellion, aid,
as the alternative was death, he cast
his lot with theirs. Being a thor
ough man, he entered upon the dr-
ties of generalissimo whole heartedly
filling the role with great credit TO
himself and. it may be said, to the
Chinese army. Lii has shown himself
a real soldier BY his masterful hon
ding of the situation at Wuchang he
has converted an ill organized re-
volt into a thoroughly organized re-
bellion which has won, as it has de-
served, respect.
Whatever may be the final result
so far as he and his army are con-
cerned, Ii Yuen-hung is assured a
high place in the history of new
China. For while he had no imme-
diate hand in the wonderful political
revolution of the last week, this could
not have been possible without him.
--Peking correspondence New York
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

A Des Moines unfortunate got two
years IN the pen for stealing two
chickens; and if the Des Moines court
recognizes sliding scale it's a good
thing for the prisoner he didn't swipe
dozen eggs and get sent UP for life.
Those who favor the recall should
point with pride to Juarez, Mexico,
rles from 10 minutes to quite while.
The difference is that the recall, as
practlced in Juarez, does not subject
the voters to being bored by some half
baked maleontent with petition.
Yesterday may have been a super
fluous day. but one may observe that
the wheels in the gas meter went
around just the same.
And it is suspected. that had Pope
Gregory thought the base uses to
winch leap year would be put, he
would have avoided the complication
by taking up the spare day as Feb
ruary 2S-plus.''
We have suspicion that the To-
peka gent who couldn't go home be-
cause his wife's affinity wouldn't let
MN, didn't want to go home very
bad. Some men will resort to nearly
any excuse to keep from going home,
but to our mind, his is about the poor
est.
1t was unnecessary for Doc Wiley to
deny, so far as we are concerned, the
report that he was about to resign.
Political job holders seldom resign
they have to be pried loose.
It is to be hoped that Hon. Billiard
viii not go too far with his threat to
arrest sidewalk owners who fail to
remove snow from same. In our
walk of life-about five blocks four
times per diem-the only uncleaned
sidewalk belongs to the State of Kan
Sas, and runs along side of the justly
celebrated State Dandelion Gardens.
And a state that has to support a
herd of janitors, a contingent fund
and q transient governor, has trouble
enough without being pinched for
neglecting its walks.
Strange, isn't it, that defendants in
court have neglected that one best
bet. The favorite and most effective
defense of trimmed pugilists, noisy
politicians and caught-with-theg goods
gossips, is that they have been mis-
quoted by d BANKED cheap reporter"
In his interesting little brochure, "a
Few Kansas Facts Hon. Coburn
quoted ingalls, and Walt Mason, but
neglected to quote that other Kansas
immortal, Mrs. Lease, whose brief
advice upon Kansas agricultural sub
Jects is we'll known.
The yellow Peril may be the great
est danger to the Pacific coast states,
but a majority of the Topeka automo-
bileS are black.
most of the charges made against him
are trifling if true, with the exception,
of course, of the charge that he got
La Toilette into the race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the chicago News.l


When the cats play the mice get away.
Friendship and confidence are plants of
slow growth
Usually a man is a poor judge of his
own Importance.
A woman seldom eats IL there ID any
thing else for her to do.
Some women are passing fair-and some
others cannot pass.
Many a man can't afford to dress well
because his wife does
Love laughs at locksmiths, but it some
times cries over spilled milk.
Some men who boss their wives in pub
lie are as meek as lambs at home
Too often it is the things we shouldn't
do that seem to make life worth living.
The man who attempts to call a wo5n-
ans bluff must be looking for trouble.
Virtue may be it's own reward, but the
reward isn't always legal tender at the
corner grocery
The young man who marries an heiress
may not have to wait fifty years in or
der to celebrate his golden wedding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

Wisconsin has new election law.
1t will impose upon the state the con-
siderable outlay required for printing
before each primary election and each
general election a 96-page pamphlet
with biographical statistics concerning
candidates. The mailing of these
pamphlets will cost the state for post
age alone about twenty thousand dol
lars. Besides this, the state will be put
to expense for compiling lists of voters
and for clerical work in connection
with the carrying out of the new law.
And the people will pay for it all in the
form of increased taxes. Reform
comes high. but the people must have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

President Taft's employers liability
recommendation for interstate carriers
recognizes that for this insurance the
ultimate consumer must pay the cost.
Proceeding on the assumption that
rates fixed by the interstate commerce
commission are fair, it admits that the
increased expense the railroads must
bear, in case the bill becomes a law,
must be shifted to the public and.
therefore, that rates should be raised
TO meet the contingency. The presidents
theory applies to every form Of taxa
ton as WALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Mistakes that are unnecessary are
the most indefensibIe.
X < x
When a man needs cheering up he
generally gets found fault with.
x
Get into a tight place. Then you'll
have no trouble in counting your
friends. Neither will it take you long.
= T.
Nor is it easy to convince most folk
that there is ever a time when the
supply of money is greater than the
demand.
x x
1t usually happens that when a fam
lily has feast of onions, all of them
have engagem entS to mix with other
people Immediately afterwards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
Lrs ALTERNATIVE DEATH.

To Gen. Lii Yuen-hung more than
any one man is due credit for the OPP
portunity out of which freedom from
Manchu domination has come.
Fate plays queer tricks with mel.
Less than a month ago no man who
knew Ii could have been made to he
lieve that under any possible consin-
gency would he be found leading
armed rebellion against the govern
ment he had sworn to protect, ard
even less would Ii have believed Il
AS he himself tells the story, when
the troops under him revolted at W.
chang he attempted 10 make his es-
cape disguised as coolie. Being
caught. his men, whom he had always
treated well, insisted he must assume
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
KANSAS cOAgMENr


A farmer said to the writer a few ds,.-
ago that he had just sold a yearling
seer 5i Ior 500 In talking further with
MN and with others, learned thai
norsess mules and all farm animals were
worth from 200 to 800 per cent more thar
Ihey were IS or 20 years ago. That pur-
chaserS came after them at these large
prices And this complaint was made n
these same peopie-that the middle man
was making all the profits and that we
things ~H'ASe
Yearlings of like kind sold IS or 70 Years
ago for IS to $40, and at that time every
one one was glad he was an American. Glad
mat he lived under the Stars and Stripes
and was proud of the constitution of ,be
United States and of the great country IN
winch he lived. But now he is discon-
tented and he feels like saying with the
anarchist. ITO hell with the constitution
II times were to change again and
prices of farm products go down, the
large money deposits in our banks de-
crease, and men had to struggle to MAKE,
Doth ends meet. I believe it would DO
away with much of this discomfort that
prosperous people.
The Lord loveth whom He chastenetS.'
and 1t seems that good horse sense only
comes from hard times, and that uros-
perity and much individual liberty creates
an unreasonable feeling of discomfort
among the people. Kansas has never
been as prosperous as it is tnday. The
people of the United States were never
more prosperous. There are no large
bodies of idle men tramping over the
country was the case not long ago
And yet the people of the country were
never more discontinued than now
By associating with prosperous men
now you will find a bitter feeling of com
plant deep down in the soul-somethine
that cannot be argued away; something
for which they can give no reason And
they all seem to be after something. they
know not what, and are seeking a Moses
to relieve them. They have in their
minds an imaginary wrong and also a
visionary remedy, and that all that is
needed is some great leader who can see
things which they cannot. and furnish
the proper medicine for the disease.
They little realize that the disease is
all in themselves, and that little COM
mon sense will cure it if they will only
take dose or two of it.-Fort Scott Re
publican
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
DAFFYDLLS
BY u NoALL.

If you kicked dog a square meal
could you kick him aroun later?
(Do your buying of fly Swatters
early.)
Did Abe Atten you that he would
KiIbane?
(OnIy the sports are supposed to
hitch onto that starr
Would it be proper to say the
Cunard Steamship company is running
street cars because it has the Cars
mania2
fWatch out. A low brodgel Duck
your head or you'I get knocked off
the boat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

The International money order bust
ness in New York city has shown a de-
crease of more than $6,500,00 since
the postal savings banks were opened
there. When the postal savings bank
system was under consideration one
of the arguments used in it's favor was
that it would tend to decrease the use
of foreign banks as repositories for
the savings for foreigners in this eoun-
try That this assertion has been
borne out is shown by the decline in
the foreign money order business in
New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.J
The sun never shines for a man whose
only joy is money.
If a liar forgot to do it for whole year
he would not get out of training
Running the furnace can teach a man
about as many swear words as anybody
can learn.
A girl knows by the way a. man looks
into her eyes they ought to be just the
color she thinks they are.
What makes a woman proud of her
husband is to think how sonle SaE he
might make some money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
NEWS.

IF a preacher turns out to be a scamp.
that's news; If a cashier abscond, that's
news; if a woman poisons her husband,
that's news; if man kills his wife to
get rid of her. that's news. Faithful
preachers, honest bankers, helpful. cheer
full. kind-hearted husbands and wives are
too common to mention-no news in that
Keep this in mind when you read the
scare heads in the papers and imagine
the country is going TO wreck.-Jewen
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

Science is reported to kill tens of
thousands of animals each year in the
pursuit of it's researches. Most of them
are guinea pigs. mice. monkeys and a
goodly number of rabbits. And it's too
bad that rabbits cannot be used ex7
clusively. That might solve the prob
lem of Kidding the western country of
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

When Colonel Roosevelt begins to
get his clippings for this week from
the newspapers published in the states
where his seven governors temper
arily reign, he will doubtless be sur
prised at the lack of influence the opin
ions of these gentlemen have with said
rerNsna nPrS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
HUNoR OF THE DAY

Parscn-I hope, Mr.. Stayaway. that
when you made your New Years resolu-
lions you included a resolve to go 70
church, Stay-awsy-ParsOn, If keep
all I'VE made I won't need to go 10 church
Boston Transcript.
I.ouis-They tell me she will get mil
lion the day she marries Fred. Louise
Wei. it's worth tt.-Chicago Daily NeBl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
Mixed Up on the Animals.

The heraldS will be down on George
Morrow for his treatment of Henry ".
in the Pageant of London Characters
prefixed to Wilfred Whitten's London
Stories" the first part of which has
just been issued. On the kings horse
trappings the lions of England are in
exactly the wrong position. Their
heads should be the other way. In
heraldry this position of retreat is
known as Coward" Fancy Three
Liol-s Cowar'' in connection with
Henry the Fifth Moreover, the lions
are crowned, and the lions of England
are never crowned. And-strangest of
all-the victor of Agincourt is wearing
a white feather Artists should consult
people who know something about
heraldry before they NEEDLE with a
subject so precise, so well-guarded by
precedent and so absurd.-London
Chronicle.
England Acquires Public Telephones.
With the new year all the telephone
lines in Great Britain passed into the
control of the government. Many of
ated by government control for years,
but now there are no privately owned
lines in England. The governmen
lines have some 10000 subscribers
and the private lines 100000. The com
bined value of the two properties is
placed at SI25.000,0OO The British
tendency toward paternaIism is unmis-
taxable today. The taking over of the
telephone lines creates no excitement
and rOuSeS little comment The ten
dency of the people to look to the
government for help is shown by the
record of poor relief in London for the
last fiscal year. The amount expended
through the local government board
was nearly S2e,O0O.O00. This did not
include the many private charities and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ADVERTISE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

The latest solution of the old ques-
ton. what shall we do with our ex-
presidents that has been offered is:
Nominate them for a third term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

1t is believed by some scientists that
the South pole already has been dis
covered. But what is the use, if there
are no Eskimaux to furnish corrobora-
tive evidence?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

Some surprise is expressed that
George Washington kept off the lecture
platform; but it should be remembered
that there were no Chautauquas in the
early days of the Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

President Taft. says the Washington
Post, is now about the only man in
public life in the country attending to
busines instead of PLAYING politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

The Powers are talking about ask
ing Turkey to stop the war. From
this distance it looks as though Italy
would be the proper one of the bel
ligerents to begin on.
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but yet.

To have been appropriate and fitting.
that outline of the general situation
in Mexico which has been penned by
President Madero, should have been
written in hood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

The Chinese have changed the date
of their new year. The public is now
ava ing an announcement regarding
thu 7ourth of July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

When the ratio of the STRAW votes"
to the total number of voters in dis
tricts where they are taken is consid-
cred, they are found to be pretty small
fractions of the whole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
FROM OTHER PENS
A TARDY REVERSAL


Spain has also illustrated the peril OF
the laws delays and the danger of error
in the trial courts. The supreme court at
Madrid has reviewed the findings of the
council of war at Barcelona which con-
demned Francisco Ferrer to death. II
finds after the lapse of some years that
there is no evidence that Ferrer was
participant in the Tioting; that any of
the rioters acted under orders from him,
and that in all the other cases of indi-
vidual rioters who were tried there was
no testimony indicating Ferrer's com
plicity in the disorders.
This is practically a judicial finding
that Ferrer was executed for an inspired
offense, really because he was deemed by
the military tribunal and the royal court
to teach revolutionary principles. Under
these circumstances the best it can do is
to order the restoration of Ferrer's prop
erty to his heirs.
AS for Ferrer himself, he is innocent.
but dead. The fact might suggest to
Spanish Jurisprudence the pert1nence when
a capital sentence is affected of postpon-
ing execution until the appellate court
gives its Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

Before beginning the battle the
colonel sent his women folks out of
the way of the enemy's fire.