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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

WILL 1T cHEAPEN MEAT?

WILL 1T CHEAPEN MEAT?
Secretary Wilson, the head of the
department Of agriculture. has re-
turned from a vacation trip over thC
west and announces that there is such
a shortage of meat animals, With
the possible exception of mutton, that
there is no hope of lower prices to the
consumer. 1t will be argued at once
that if we buy beef at lower prices
within reach we must pull down the
tariff wall and admit free of duty the
cattle from the illimitable ranges of
Argentina, Uruguay and Australia
Theoretically this sounds plausible.
Practically 1t will not accomplish much
in the way of relief If 1t is true thSt
the beef kings Of America have reach
ed out and seized control of thVSe
ranges. 1t seems to have been pretty
well established that the Chicago
packers, with keen foresight, have
obtained at least footing in the South
American cattle ranges, whether they
are in control or not. It is less like
ly that their enterprise has extended
as far as Australia. But the assump-
ton that they might control the world
supply brings up the question whether
a tariff reduction would accomplish
anything more than affect the reve-
nue. without reducing prices. Unless
the importation of foreign cattle
brought about & competition as the
result of which prices would decline,
the tariff reduction would secure no
relief to the American consumer. II
the meat barons exercised a monopoly
they could fix the prices of both do
mestic and imported supply, debating
the terms to the cattle grower from
whom they bought and the butcher
to whom they sold. The beef trust
has agreed to dissolve, but it's olsen
luton might accomplish only what was
accomplished with the Northern Sc
curities company, the Standard Oil
and the Tobacco trust. There is IN
all of this something for the AmeII-
can people to ponder.-St. Louis Dis
patch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
SAYS UNCLE CAV


The chances are that If you are APP
preciated as much as you think you
should be, you're not living up to your
opportunities. Even in this day and
age, when innovation is often used
anonymously with merit there are
enough mossbacks to strew the path
OF every pioneer with stones. And if
you find the travelling uniformly
smooth, it's a pretty good indication
that you are peddfing out stuff. For
the old is always dear to Us, and it is
only the old that receives general ap-
prevail.
He who has not been to some small
extent a pioneer has stopped short of
race some. new thing. be it ever so
slight. And he that discharges his
debt is bound to incur opposition.
The approval of the mob doesn't
mean excellence. It merely means
that you agree with the mob. In
time the generality of men commend
every good thing, but not at first
blush. The mob is always beyond
comprehending distance of the trail
blazer 1t never quite catches I'D and
never quite approves today of all
that the man ahead does today If
everything that you do pleases your
neighbors, it is proof that you have
given over the glorious privilege of
leadership and are taking the dust
of the pioneer along with the rest of
the mediocres.-(Copyr 49, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

within. Though he had 20 right. he
pushed open the door.
The girl jumped quickly to her feet
She had been a crumpled mass beside
the rude couch. Her eyes sought the
strangers face as If in appeal and
| then it seemed, in flash. that a
smile sped across her soul.
You!" was all she said.
| Cargrave stepped close to her. 1t
was Harmony Vale.
why did you never return to me
with more poems?" he asked. And
because she did not answer but stared
mutely at him he continued, why
have you sold your furniture?
why" He stopped; his throat
would not bring forth the words and
his eyes alone continued the cate
chism. Her wonderful hair had been
| clipped so close to her head that only
| by extreme effort could the little
curls form and tumble about in golden
profusion. Her frock was old, and as
shabby as the room, but its tone was
still in harmony with the girl. Car
grave turned away.
tt would have sold my very
heart-if I could" the girl said in a
| tremulous voice. 1t appealed to Car
grave as being weak from hunger.
My dear little brother was so i'll. I
needed every cent 1 could get in
order that he might have certain
treatment" She looked up at Car
the binding tears came and glistened
in her eyes, upturned to his.
II am $3.50 very lonely-now,"
she said. ''They would not let me go
with him, and I have had to wait in
graph me whether or not" her
voice broke; she could not continue.
Cargrave soothed her. Little
shorn lamb he murmured, hardly
knowing what words came out of his
heart, you have sacrificed every
= hi I,se
close-cropped curls.
This time as Harmony looked up
the dawn of a smile lighted her eyes.
TT doesn't matter if"
IT know" Cargrave interrupted, IT
know"
They stood for moment in silence
and as they stood rough knock
sounded on the door. A messenger
boy was staring at them.
Harmony rushed forward and,
open and read the message. Then she
sank, a huddled mass, on the bare
floor. In her hand she still held the
open telegram.
Cargrave bent over her and read
the words: "Bobbie will recover,
mamma
Poor little girl-it was too much
for her." CargraYe nurmured as he
lifted her to the couch.
1t was some moments before he
succeeded IN bringing her Dack TO
consciousness, but when he did, he
was rewarded with smile that did
not have to struggle through tears.
CAMS it possible for me to thank
you for having come to me in my
deepest sorrow and for having been
with me in this moment of over
wheIming joy?" Harmony asked after
she had regained her composure.
1T is Cargrave told her. And
then, at length, he spoke Of her poems
he had found, of their worth, of her
future, and-though he did not now
speak of this-he added in his own
thoughts, 1T is possible for you to
thank me in the most convincing way
in the world for a woman to thank
the man who loves her.''-(Copyrigh
1912 by McClure's Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
EVENING CHAT
81 RUTH CAMERON.

| We call her the baby doll lady because
| that is her pose. She is at least twenty
| five-we are inclined to make it nearer
| thirty-but apparently she is not con-
scious of the fact For she wears funny
| little bingham frocks that would 10 TX
them SO short that almost any mother
would order her sixteen-year-old daugh-
ter into the house for similar display Of
legs; and she actually appeared last sum
mer with a straw hat with an elastic
on it.
Nor is her manner by any means out
of harmony with her clothes.
To hear her gleeful, childish laughter, &c
see her clap her hands in delight aud
pIehses her, to watch her pirouettinS
about in her bathing suit and shrieklng
with babyish terror when she is urged to
enter the water, to see her pout when
she is teased, you would surely say that
she was not more than sixteen at the
very most.
AT which she would certainly be vastly
pleased, for that is just exactly what lie
wants you to say.
Now if there is anything 1 love, it is a
man woman who is still young despite
the passing of the years who can still en-
joy the sports and games of childhood,
youth long after childhood and youth
have fled-in short the men and women
who always keep the child heart somt-
where within them, even though daily
farther from the east they still must
travel"
And yet II there is any woman In our
town that I come pretty near to disliking.
it's the baby doll lady.
You think that's inconsistent?
Not at all.
In the same proportion that anything
is beautiful, it's cheap imitation is likely
to be hideous, and so it always seems TO
me that that girls pose is an insult 20
real youth.
1 have known grown matrons who real
ly laughed with almost chfldlike giee
when they were especially delighted but
they didn't know that it sounded that
way. This girl does. You can fancy tfat
she is saying to herself, Now I am
laughing with childlilze glee." Now I
look like little bit of a girl who is
scared of the water" etc. etc.
Let me tell you something. When you
do anything and think yourself as you
do it. IT must look sound like this or
that beware-you are posing, and at
least three-quarters of your audience
knows that you are posing, and instead
of admirfng you, is either amused or DIS
gusted.
The baby doll lady is the joke of the
town. The neighborhood mimic is al
ways applauded when she reproduces ner
childlike laughter or her pouting, and he<
ample to all young girls.
And all the time she is clever enough
and pretty enough to be a popular girl II
she only wouldn't pose.
Don't pose It doesn't pay. Nobody loves
a poseur-at least not for very long. And
If you don't know when you are doing il,
just use my test-you are posing when
ever you have a subconscious eye on the
effect you are creating
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
HUNOR OF THE DIP

do you believe that all men are created
equal?" Il used to before 1 was married
And now?' Now ! find that 1 can't
begin to compare with other women :
husbands. Detroit Free Press.
You don't pay much attention to the
standard writer's on political economy"
No" replied Senator Sorghum They
lacked energy and ambition With all
those ideas any one Of them could have
Washington Star.
Whats the row across the way?" Mrs.
Winters is changing her mind" Il don't
see. why that should cause so much dis
turbance." wen, the fact is when Ma.
is expected to follow suit He's probably
demurring this morning. "-Birminghan
Age-Herald.
Reversed Conditions.-Grfees - There's
one thing about my wife, never go home
exhausted and find myself slated to ac-
Briggs with a sigh)-I wish could say
that. When 1 get home evenings tired
Patience-Do you know, I just cried
over his last book. Patrice-But that isn't
going to be his last book. Patience-Oh,
then I'm sorry cried.-Yonkers States
man.
Blk always go by the motto. IF You
want a thing done well do IL yourself
Dix-Yes. but suppose you want a hair
cut-Boston Transcript
We'll, major, I notice that you're run
ming for office again" mo, sir. IT'S the
same old run I got started years ago
and to save my life 1 can't stop myself"
Atlanta Constitution.
Tittle=-Hardup bought his wife a ma
chine. Tattle-Touring, talking sewing or
washing ?-Los Angeles Herald.
Furious-First Deaf Mute-He wasn't so
very angry, was he? Second Deaf Mute
He was so wild that the words he used
almost blistered his fingers.-Pittsburg
Leader.
That novelist says he takes his char
acters from real life" He should be en-
couraged to keep on taking them" re-
piled Mr.. Growcher. The fewer ike
them in real life, the better. '--Wash
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
DHFFYDHS
BY o. roALL..

If the mahogany desk should cry
would the oak rocker?
(Attendant!! Get the straps-)
If you wrote to an animal dealer for
tiger wouldn't he be apt to drop you
lion?
(Another splurge like that deserves
death.)
Would it be right to say that jokes
killed a man because he was riddled
with bullets?
clears should be shed over this guys
grave. He's the boob that put the moo
in moose.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most reformers have an Interior mo-
tive or two.
- = =
Much of the food for thought is i'm
properly digested.
An inferior man is likely to do lot
OF boasting.
\ X y
Nor is it unusual for a man to have
to struggle pretty hard with himself TO
dc the right thing.
Few persons can Withstand the temp
tation of looking into jewelry store
windows and wishing a little.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
FARMERS.

Sing a song of farmers,
Up at early morn
with our-and-twenty chores to do
Before the breakfast horn,
When the breakfasts over,
There's little to be done,
Except to plough the fodder
And let the harrows run.
And NOW the sheep and prune the beer5
And curry up the swine
And shear the hens and dig the hay
And shoe the gentle kline,
And saw the wheat and rake the rye
And wash and dress the land,
And things like that which city folks
Can never understand.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
rFron the New York Press.1

TFrom the New York Press.1
If a woman had a through ticket TO
heaven she'd lose the train to look at
some new hats.
When you are trying to go right every
road is cross road, with no guide posts
there.
People who say more money has been
sunk in gold mines than anything else
forget amateur gardens.
What makes it so easy for girl to fool
a man is it would be just as easy for
her If it was harder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
The Shifting PoIes.

Both Peary and Amundsen made all
1owances in determining the site of the
Poles. Their position is not perfectly
constant, there being a counter-clock
elliDtical movement of some thirty
feet, and a counter-clock circular
movement of some twenty-six feet in
diameter, in a period of 42S days at
the extreme axes of the earth. This
change. however, is so slight as not to
be reckoned IN practical calculations.
Peary and Amundsen made no guess
es, but took several observations from
various standpoints to determine con-
clusively that they had. reached the
Poles.-The Christian Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Mr.. Bryan calls attention to the FACE
that the Bull Moose national conven-
ton was composed of hand picked
delegates representing a mythical con-
stituency. And some of the delegates
appear to have been just as mythical.
No one has yet heard from Mr.. White
and Mr.. Allen as to who were the 20
regular delegates and the twenty al
ternates that represented Kansas at
this convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Presumably it won't be long now
before some one insists that the in
creasing frequency with which cancer
IS developing in humans is due to
meanderings of the house fly.
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good red blood: then he would take
on the gypsy and prove that his feel
ing Of superiority was due to his own
qualities rather than to the fact that
some ancient masculine forebear had
been q man of much muscle or cum
ming, or both
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

After all, Colonel Roosevelt is of The
same clay of which all humans are
made. Like most other witnesses, his
memory proved to be faulty concern
ing some matters. But really, they
weren't of very much Importance, at
that He said so. That settles it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

An erstwhile Pennsylvania million
aire, who squandered an immense
fortune in a few years, is now busily
engaged making both ends meet by
manufacturing sausage. And if the
sausage he turns out is the real thing
in that line he is now of no small
zervice to humanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Regardless of the statements of
William Allen White to the contrary,
the facts appear to be that the cam
paign fund of the Kansas Republican
Party league is not of sufficient pro-
portions to prostitute the electorate
of Kansas to any considerable extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

William Jennings Bryan's popularity
in Kansas is undiminished. But Mr.
Bryan has learned to his sorrow on
many occasions that the people Of
Kansas and other states do not always
vote the way they cheer. However,
Mr.. Bryan has the satisfaction of hav-
ing carried Kansas in 1896.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

What is Mr.. Morgan doing for the
good of his country this year in the
way of campaign contributions? No
one has heard of him passing out any
to the extent of S150,OOO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

When Colonel Roosevelt was in
Kansas he seemed to have informal
ton to the effect that Governor Had
ley would come out for the cause of
the Bull Moose. But Mr. Hadley
comes out squarely for President Taft
and declares there is no need for a
third party
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

If the Democrats expect to get a
crowd at the Woodrow Wilson rally
at the Auditorium next Tuesday
afternoon, they will he wise if they
make arrangements to read from the
speakers platform the bulletins of
the progress of the first game for the
baseball championship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The stats Journal la a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
SelegrRph report Of that great news or
ranization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour-
nal building ever wires for this sole puT-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Surely a candidate for office can
profit by contributions to his cam
paign fund even if he does not solicit
them personally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Turkey and Italy have finally de-
cided to abandon their war. Practi-
cally speaking, though, they have been
at peace these many months. At least,
they haven't been fighting so as &c
hurt each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

TUBERCULOSIS AND ALCOHOL.
DR.. Bertillon, the famous Paris sta
tistician says that among men from
ages of 35 to As he finds that 'tuber-
culosis is twice as prevalent amons
drinkers of alcohol as 1t is among
abstainers A famous Boston physl-
clan adds his testimony, derived from
keeping books on the subject that
among the workingmen from the ages
of rs to A ne finds that injuries
among workmen have been three
times as frequent among drinking
men as among abstainers. There is
no sentimental appeal in these facts.
there is no appeal to any mans emu
tion- There is no touching of the ten
der heart in these facts. But to the
man whose brains are in working or
der, to man who thinks out for him
self calmly, and coldblooded1y, the
problems of daily life, here are facts
which would recommend to no think
ing man that he should lineup with
shooting the human race to pieces
more frightfuliy than wars. In the
business campaigns of modern indus
try every day men are being manned
and wounded in peaceful occupations
as numerously as in war. Every work
ing man under the best favoring con-
ditions runs risks. We are all of us
surrounded by risks. We play the
daily game of life, with many odds
against Some of these odds we
cannot change. They are beyond our
own control Every man however is
master of the question whether he
uses alcohol. He can lay his own odds
in this respect. He can place his own
bet. When the worlds best statisti-
clans figure out that the odds are two
to one that man will contract tu-
berculosiS If he weakens his physical
machine by using alcohol, and when
the odds run three to one that alcO-
holic workmen will get hurt in the
pursuits of peaceful industry. the les
son is plain. It's a cold-blooded, COM
mon sense, plain piece of gambling
mathematics to lay ones chances
where the odds run right.-Wichita
Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Just because Gertie -Atherton is
giving vigorous support to the Demo-
cratic national ticket, it is not at all
likely that the wife and daughters of
Governor Wilson will take up with
the smoking of cigarettes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Politics seems to have a hypnotic
effect on candidates for office. Take
those in Kansas, for example. Thers
is not one of them who is not il
tensely pleased with the present pollti-
cal situation Or, so he says.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

that had been tossed on the doorstep
of a house in their neighborhood-
They thought the pills Were candy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Neither viii attendance at the
games of the worlds series be as
pleasurable this year as in times
past Boston's supporters are learn
ing songs and yells which they pro-
pose to deliver in unison during the
contests. That kind of enthusiasm
belongs to college football. not to
professional baseball. And it will be
perfectly proper for the rest of the
crowd to yell throw EN- out"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Presumably people have the right
to buy as much patent medicine as
they please. But vendors of the
same have not the rig.-t to throw
samples of their wares around pro-
miscuously on porches and doorsteps.
City ordinances or state legislation
should be enacted to forbid this prac-
tice. The lives of three little Wichita
children were endangered because
they ate two boxes of sample pills
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SOMEBODY ELSE THERE.

One night a man heard a racket out
about his chicken coop and, going to
the coop, called out: who's IN
there?" A wee. small voice an
sweredt "Thaint nobody haar. boss,
but jest us chickens Mr.. Roosevelt
is trying to persuade the people that
nobody but genuine reformers are in
this Bull Moose movement, but there
are voices coming from the coop that
sound mighty much like the voices
of the Harvester trust and the Steel
trust.-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Gabe-Has Jones a good memory?
Steve-Should say he has. Why, he can
name you the last six vice presidents of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

F'urious-First Deaf Mute-He wasn't SO
very angry, was he? Second Deaf Mute
He was wild that the words he used
almost blistered his fingers.-Pittsburg
Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

That novelist says
acters from real life. "
couraged to keep on
piled Mr.. Growcher.
them in real life, the
ton Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Tfttle-Hardup bought his wife a ma
chine. Tattle-Touring, talking sewing nr
washing?-Los Angeles Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Well, major. notice that you're run
ming for office again" mo, sir. it's the
and to save my life can't stop myself
Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

do you believe that all men are created
equal?" Il used to before 1 was married. -
And now? Now ! find that l can't
begin to compare with other women's
husband s. "-Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Bix-I always go by the motto. IF You
want a thing done well do IL yourself
Dix-Yes, but suppose you want a hair
cut-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Reversed Conditions.-Grfggs - There's
exhausted and find myself slated to ac-
company her to a dinner or the theater.
Briggs with a sigh)-I wish 1 could say
that When 1 get home evenings tired
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-07

Patience-Do you know, I just cried
over his last book. Patrice-But that isn't
going to be his last book. Patience-On,
then I'm sorry cried.-Yonkers States
man.