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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

tell you," he said gently. st can nevel
express to you how grateful 1 am fol
your generous offer; you have already
been more than kind to a complete
stranger
They shook hands and the artist went
his way, looking back once or twice
at the picture Lila made, for she had
resumed her seat in the apple tree.
The sun slanted lower until long
lever rays pierced the branches, and
still she had not moved. From the
big summer boarding house where she
was stopping came the warning nott
of the supper bell
At the table Lila found herself &C
knowledging an introduction to tho
artist of the orchard. His name was
Wilbur-Barnes Wilbur. He seemed
glad to meet her again.
The next morning they met in tn
front piazza. I'm going to hunt for
a motif for another sordid advertise
ment," he laughed. will you come
with me?"
I'D love to-" cried Lila Moore
What is the advertisement to be?''
"Tryem's Baked Beans!''
Good. Let us go to the kitchen
garden and put the growing bean
vines into the picture. Shall 1. bor-
row a sunbonnet and pick some in
basket?'
Whatever Lila Moore did she attack
ed with enthusiasm and accompl1Snec
with complete success. Never had
Barnes Wilbur's drawings been so good
or in such demand. 1t become a mat
ter of course that Lila should accom-
pany the young artist on his .tramps
around the countryside and what one
pair of eyes did not discern another
did.
At last the summer drew to a close
Barnes Wilbur prepared to return to
New York. Lila Moore's aunt an
nounced that they, too, must return t6
town.
Dear" said Barnes to Lila on the
last evening as they stood beneath
their apple tree, would you trust yout
future happiness to me-would yOl
dare marry such a poor beggar as 1
am? I shall never be great-but 1 love
you"
IF you were great you'd be in love
with yourself or your art" laughed
Lila, please tell me why you would
never use my face in your drawings?
i've wanted it for myself from the
first" he whispered. will you trust
yourself to me, dearest?"
Yes" she whispered, and later:
And we can take the wedding trir
on Budlong's Matchless Griddle
Barnes, can't we?'
Yes, and furnish our house on the
Farmers Breakfast Oats and Purity
Soap checks, darling" he added Sc
riously.-(Copyright. 1872 by Associa-
ted Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Advice to ball players-a hit in time
saves the nine.
Food for reflection is poor consolation
to q hungry man.
All the pull in the world wouldn't pull
some fellows together. ~ r -
woman's idea of something that IS
not worth keeping is secret.
Ask some people to take your part and
they will take all you have.
In the pursuit of happiness rapid transit
isn't absolutely necessary.
Strangely enough, it's the blunt people
who come straight to the point.
Any woman can make a fool of himself
first
The fellow who. tries to drown his sor-
rows-in the flowing bow may only sue
coed in making his head swim.
Wigg-"I told her she was as pretty as
a picture Wagg-"And suppose sne
made bee line for the photographers.
uggins'-.tD, Auber says he is welded
to his art" Buggins-'sWell, judging
from his pictures, I should say D'Auber
was the better half
The Cynical Bachelor. who processes to
know something about women, says the
most accomplished actresses are not those
who are on the stage.
Blobbs-'tI never knew such a wet
blanket as that fellow Bjones." Slobbs-
That's right; if that fellow would jump
from the frying pan into the fire, he
would put the fire OUT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE

In your rush for revenge be careful
that you don't pay more than it's worth.
Every man should live so he won't be
blackballed when he wants to join a
lodge.
Bounty wolf scalps is never high
enough to make pack of hounds pay
dividends.
A small town man may have money
enough to employ valet, but he hash
the nerve.
Most every town has a Lovers Lane;
in some it may be the principal business
street.
Austrians have such long names that
the hotel registers in that country grow
to unusual width.
What has become of the old-fashioned
boy who said that a turtle does not let
go until it hears thunder?
When rain is needed. a woman is apt
to regard her cistern as more important
that the Kansas wheat CROP
Once in awhile a mistake in the news
permits a man to read his own obituary,
and he feels better towards humanity.
1t depends a good deal on the size of the
town how much money a girls father
must have before she is called an heiress.
There are a good many jokes that can't
be printed, but they are no funnier than
the ones which can, which isn't saying
much f1r them.
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AS Direct Primaries work.

Everybodys business is nobody's
business. Under the convention sys-
tenn it is the business of the party
mana cement to present good candi-
dates for nomination. Under the di-
rect primary system it is nobody's
Tom, Dick and Harry present them
selves, and do it early. And when
those who are eager to present them
selves have done SO, those whom
others may be eager to present will
not allow themselves to be presented.
Willingness on the part of adequate
men to serve the public in office is
rare enough at best, and willingness
on the part of adequate men to under
go a protra cted and necessarily eX-
pensive campaign of personalities
right to undergo another protracted
and expensive campaign for the right
to serve the public in office is more
than can be expected normally eX-
cept from those at once very rich
and very patriotic. This view has
confirmation in Boston'S experience.
After the direct primary had been in
operation for some eight years the re-
suits were investigated by commits
sion of seven appointed by the gov
ernor and the mayor on the recon-
mendation of various civic organiza-
tons The commission was notable
for the high character of its mem
bers. After a year and a half of
work, it reported that the direct pri-
mary operates to make the nomina-
ton and election of representative
citizens to the elective offices of the
city government more difficult than
under the former system.''-Evans
WoolIen, in the July Atlantic.
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HOPE FOR MEXICO AND CUBA.

Uncle Sans boisterous neighbors to
the southwark are showing hopeful
signs of readiness to settle down for
awhile to orderly ways of life The
lawful authorities are getting the upper
hand in those states of the Mexican re-
public where there has been much dis
order and in some instances completely
successful local rebellion. And in Cuba,
where the armed rising came much
later, it is being put down with enough
vigor to warrant the expectation that
the civil government will soon control
the situation in every part of the island.
In Mexico and Cuba alike there may
be outlaw bands hiding in the noun
tains and thickets for months to come,
but the indications are that they will
be kept on the defensive and will be run
down gradually and captured or ex-
terminated. Instruction as a hopeful
means of getting power and offices, and
especially the handling of the taxes, IS
falling into disrepute in both of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

Nobody has ever yet discovered, says
the Pittsburg Kansan, how much ice
cream a young girl at strawberr.
festival can eat.
Truth. crushed to earth, will rise
again, observes the Minneapolis Mes
senger. but. it's bruised countenance il;
always afterwards eyed with suspic-
ion in polite society.
As Pip Daniels, of the Howard Cour-
ant, has figured some things out: Most
young men expect a wife to be valet
and a tailor; and most young women
expect husband to be a carpenter, a
plumber and national bank.
Pertinent advice to politicians from
the Lincoln Republican: 1t will be un-
safe for candidates to get out through
the country to solicit votes for the next
three or four weeks, if they do not
want to be put to work in the harvest
fields.
All of the Concordia editors enjoy
some little distinction, thinks the
jamestown Optimist. One of them is
a candidate for the legislature; two
others have just escaped alive from a
piano contest, and the fourth one is a
Democrat.
An error was made in our local col
unln last week, correctS the Osawato-
mic Graphic. We said that DR.. Goss
of the state hospital had sprained mis-
says that he ruptured the capillary
gland on his left axle.
1t won't be the fault of the Pitts
burg Kansan, if the girls and the
spinsters in its vicinity do not take
advantage of their Leap Year oppor-
tunities. Two columns were devoted
to this subject recently by the Kansan.
For an introduction, it had this to
say: with nearly six months of Leap
Year already passed, the kansar
maidens and widows, both young and
Der of eligible bachelors. some young,
this community who are apparently a
little bashful and only waiting for the
lady of beauty, brains, wit and nerve
to PROFOUND the momentous question.
At least, we think it would be advis-
able to risk the efforts and feel assur-
ed that it would be for the good of all
concerned if the matrimonial lariat
could be thrown about these prospec-
tive benedicts..' The Kansans then pre-
sents excellent half tone cuts OF four
of the bachelors, together with their
names and occupations. In addition it
prints the names and business or pro-
fessional connection of a score of other
Pittsburg bachelors; and concludes its
article as follows: Now ladies, take
our advice and get busy. They're ali
good fellows and their shyness is only
temporary. They're all fond of hand
some ladies, of music and the drama.
of home and children, and best of all
they are hustlers and good business
men,
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFron the chicago News.I


An egotist invariably makes great hit
with himself.
Late hours account for a lot of prema-
ture wrinkles.
You can always depend on some men
doing nothing at all times.
A wise man compliments a woman be-
fore asking a favor of her
Occasionally a man marries girl in
order to get her off his mind.
Every time you tell your troubles you
are wasting the other fellows time.
When a man is in love he can even ap-
preciate the music of hand organ.
Ignorance is bliss when a man las more
money than he knows what to do with.
There is apt to be a little truth and a
great deal that isn't true in both sides OF
story
Many mans bad luck is due to the
fact that he has neither inherited ability
nor acquired industry.
The browning glory of the modern wom-
an is possibly a few strands of her own
and a lot of bargain counter hair.
Marriage is never a failure when the
contracting parties have sense enough to
settle down and try to make the best
of it.
1t sometimes happens that women wor-
ship long-haired man, but did you ever
hear of bunch of men going daffy over
a short-haired woman?
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Makes no. difference if he is a =
OUCH! WHO THREW THAT BRICK
In Germany, aviators get $35
month. In this country they get more
but they fall just as hard.
After reading a few side notes, we
have at last grasped the meaning OF
that frequently used expression
Larceny of a convention" 1t mean
the prices the merry villagers charge
the visiting delegates.
If you have any remarks to make
about the so-ealled safe and sane
type Of airship, kindly wait until al
ter the Vaniman funeral.
The guy who is always on the fence
has the advantage of the poor wop who
burns his fences behind him. 1t is in
the latter class that a lot of third
party whoopers now find themselves.
Stranger things may have happened.
but it is doubtful. A New York po-
liceman mas died from overwork-
This one thought should be enough
to stop girls who contemplate taking
up aviation as a pastime or profession
Harriet Quimby was a pretty girl-but
at her funeral the minister will not
say: Friends may now pass by ana
view the remains
Kids like noiseless Fourth about
as we'll as their elders like smoke
less cigar
Woman considers man a perfect gent
only when he spends & major portion
of his time apologizing for something
he hasn't done.
Trouble is, when the average man
decides to mend either his ways or
the screen door, he can't find the ham,
mer.
1t doesn't take long to forget an ir-
ritation-after the cause is removed.
Do you remember ping-pong and Mary
MacLane?
Prof. Wilson-schooI teacher by trade
resident of the mosquito belt-nomina-
ted in a speech that closed with poetry
like a funeral sermon, has been non11-
mated What's the use of making pre-
cedents, only to have them fractured?
The big fight tomorrow will last but
a few minutes but so much has been
printed about it in advance that we
are almost justified in referring to ii
as a paper mill"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Bull-headedness and ignorance are
almost synonymous.
X X
An easy way to get man angry is
to call his bluff.
n So
All work and no play is bad enough
but the reverse is worse.
y Y
Bald-headed men who say they don't
care about it are seldom sincere.
The skeener a man is for the best of
it, the more insistent he is that the
other fellows play fair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
SAYS UNCLE CAV

One very good definition of failure
is a man who doesn't know what is
happening to him. Life, with its multi
tuiinous shifts and changes, is all on
the same film, and whatever may be
the difference between today ana to-
morrow they are pretty much alike.
Cut into the core of the pomegranate
and you'll find the fruit of existence
about the ssmes last year, this year,
next year and forever. What you call
g new problemEis. if you have gotten
down to the business of knowing thor
oughly your surroundings, the old, old
problem that perplexed you some time
since. 1t may wear new face, and its
garments may be cut in the latest
mode, but it cannot change it's nature
sny more than the leopard can change
its spots. There be but seven kinds of
Jokes in the world. and jokes are more
plentiful than problems.
The failure is he who does not know
the meaning of yesterday; who spends
strength and substance for experience
and fails to take the profits.
The ambitious young man is more u
less like a blooded colt-the best thing
he can learn is not to get excited. In
brea king in a boy the greatest service
you can render him is to teach him that
circumstances can't crush. I know
that this runs counter to all the old
grannyisms coined since the day tha.
Cain rushed in to tell the old folks that
a third generation had been added to
the family of the original tenant of
Eden, but it's true just the samo. All
that is necessary to succeed is to realize
on your experience, and the most i'm
portant fact that experience can drive
home is that nothing is going to hurt
feel the curb of bit and the touch of
Spur.
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two troubled and at times unstable re-
publics which are necessarily of much
concern to the United States.
1t is idle to hope that Mexico will ever
be such sneighbor as Canada is or that
Cuba will cease to contain elements of
danger to peace and order, but much
progress is possible in both of these
Latin-American states. They may
profit by the bitter experience of loss
and peril and much resulting poverty
which rebelions entail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
DAFFYDuS
BY U. NoALL.

When the sun pours down on the
blea cheers does the baseball fan?
(Of1cer! Grab that man. He stole a
base)
If a man bottles milk what does the
pop bottIe?sal 49,
Gee cold lemonade. Ice coIdM All
you can drink for nickel a glass.)
IF a railroad was hunting for bar
gains would it let its machineshop?
(Yes, madam! ! The two-forty-five
train leaves at fifteen minutes to three.)
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Jim Flynn says if he loses the fight
10 Jack johnson there will be no
yells from him. This will help some,
but not very much. AS a matter of
fact only a few sports are at all in
terested in this fight. The general
public would only be likely to wax en-
thusiastic over it in the event that
both contestants were knocked out
permanently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

After many of the Democrats, the
country over, had coddIed Champ
C1arks houn' dawg until it had as
sumed the proportions of a critter.
most sleek and fat, their representa-
tives at Baltimore finally tied can
to its tail. Such is life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press1
Breakfast in bed is about the same as a
brisk walk in a sleeping car.
The way for man to please his WIFE -
to make her think she is pleasing him.
It's pretty hard to tell from his looks
whether multimillionaire is a ferret or
bulldog.
one of the chief pleasures a man gets
out of smoking an old pipe is nobody
wants him to.
A man can never just lay his tongue on
a witty thing he wants to say or an ex-
cause he wants to give.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

When their opportunities are
brightest. it is proverbial that the
Democrats make blunders of huge
proportions. They seem to have fol-
lowed precedents in this particular at
Baltimore; not necessarily in the
nomination of Mr.. Wilson, but in
their bitter fights which led up to the
nomination. Most disgruntled Demo-
Gratis are so constituted that they say
little but carry their hatchets and
knives into the election booths.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

vey was insstent that some day the
Democrats would find presidential
timber in the then president of.
Princeton university. Harvey was the
original Wilson champion and he
must be enjoying a trifle of satisfac-
ton at his discernment even if he
does not feel at liberty to say so.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news Or
RanfzAtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jodr-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
SLEEP

Sleep has come to longing eyes,
- Welcome sleep.
Creeping, as the long night dies,
Like shadow. when the skies
Flush, and Dawn begins to rise
From the deep.
Now, as though a glad surprise
Held her breath,
Smiling, solemn, still, she lies
No more sobbing, no more signs.
Sleep has closed her weary eyes,
Sleep and Death.
-Riccardo Stephens, in the Westminster
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

August /, is the date set for the ma.
tional convention of the new Progress
sive party which Colonel Roosevelt
and his friends have organized. Gov
ernor Stubs and his fellow Roose-
veltians in Kansas will soon have to
bestir themselves to get together a
duly accredited Kansas delegation to
attend this convention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

As the Republican elephant is
emerging from the hospital in pretty
good shape after the battering it re-
ceived, the Democratic donkey finds
itself in need of some careful nursing
AZ it is to have any vigor for the ma
tfonal campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

All of the proprietors of the big
hotels at Baltimore enjoyed rich pick
inEs during the first few days of last
week. The Baltimore pawnbrokers
had their innings this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

Nor is it at all probable that there
will be much of scramble in the flu
ture on the part of Democrats to
serve as delegates to the national
conventions of that party.
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vey of Harper's Weekly, was, politely
but coldly requested to cease support
ing Mr.. Wilson for the Democratic
presidential nomination, no one can
deny the fact that he was the Moses
who discovered woodrow Wilson in
the political bull-rushes. Eight or
maybe more years ago. colonel Har-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

Another Democratic precedent has
been observed at Baltimore. To re-
neve the monotony on Monday, some
of the delegates INDUCED in a fist
fight in the convention hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

Most of the political wise men, with
the exception of Colonel Roosevelt
and a few of his friends, look for the
new Roosevelt party to peter away
into insignificance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

Republicans have every reason for
cheer. History repeats itself. And
Mr.. Bryan's victories at Democratic
national conventions are no certain
Iorerunners of the way things result
on election day.
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ventions will probably be held where
the two-thirds rule will prevail. 1t
is undemocratic anyhow in country
where majorities are supposed to rule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

Those Democratic dark horses"
that every one heard so much about
kept mighty close to their stables.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

Apparently. the cyclones have fol-
lowed the bank robbers from Kansas
into Canada ett
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03

Neither has Baltimore any reason
to complain over the investment it
made to obtain the Democratic ma
tional convention.