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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
says UNCLE CIV

When I'm not angry with the per-
petual fault fineder, I'm sorry for him,
and try not to get angry too often.
He's a natural born unfortunate; he's
his own worst enemy. and there's real
ly very little hope for him until he
bumps into a circumstance that will
jar him into a new start.
He's a creature of habit-about the
worst habit there is. He envelopes
himself and surroundings in a man
| tie of gloom when he doesn't envelop
them in a mantle of red rage He's
never comfortable, and he is seemingly
determined that nobody else shall be.
Asa matter of fact, though, determina-
ton doesn't enter into the matter. He
has to find fault just as slave of
nicotine has to have his tobacco and
the slave of alcohol has to have his
liquor He's a disrupter, disorganiz-
er and a diabolical pest; fever and
fret and unhappines are to him the
breath of life. The only good purpose
he serves is that of horrible examp
Don't get into the habit of finding
fault. This is a good old world; but
none of us are perfect, unless you
picking flaws. We invite honesty and
carefully considered criticism.
We like the cheerful educational
kind. But there are few of US who
are not nu1nDIY IQlnQIu1 our errors
and we regard them more or less as
open wounds. We don't want you to
come along and rub salt into them for
sheer deviltry.
And because we don't enjoy this lit
tie habit of yours. you're very unpop-
ular You're a fit subject for retribu
ton, and when you make a mistak e
you get what you have stored up for
yourself. Where others find their mis-
takes passed over with a kindly criti
cism, yours are held up to general
ridicuIe. Where others find sympathy,
you find contempt and hatred. You try
to put the world out of joint, but sue
coed only in disjointing your own nose
to the disfigurment of your face.
If you've got the fault finding habit
quit it, and quit it now. Somewhere in
your veins you've a little of the milk
of human Kindness Give it a chance.
Somewhere in your brain is nesting
a little grain of optimism. Cultivate
it. Try to realize that while nothing
is perfect here below. ost things are
nearly perfect and those who are not
are not 50 bad. TRY to understand that
there is such a thing as wholesome
nride in imperfect handiwork and
that it IS a crime to kill that pride in
the heart of the worker. And if you
can learn these things. you'll be ready
TO ioin the worldwide society of mu-
tual administration and he hanpy.-
(Copyrighted 1912 by ". E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
QUAKER NIEDITATONs.

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record.l
The door of adversely has Push en-
blazoned on it.
It's the under dog that always howls
for the peacemaker.
Sometimes it takes more than a derrick
to raise our hopes,
Even to take time by the forelock re-
quires a certain amount of pull.
The modern prayer-forgive US our
debts as we forgive our creditors.
There's nothing like these cold mornings
to take a, fall out of the thermometer.
There are lots of things we should eth
er forget to remember, or remember to
forget.
''On what grounds do you base the
superiority of man?" demanded Miss
Strongmynd. WELL" hesitated Mr.. Meek
ton, for one thing, We positively refuse
to have our clothes button up the back
ct takes a presidential candidate weeks
to write his letter of acceptance. re-
marked the young man. Gracious, It
wouldn't take two minutes to write
mine if 1 should get the chance replied
the girl. She got the chance.
Harduppe- old Brownsnith' s
memory is a complete blank. He can't
remember a thing Borrowwell-.-Ha.
are you laughing about?' BoF-owelI-.'I
can't help it. I owed him SO. Ha. Hal
Hal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
by THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARsONs-

Doc White, Chicago White Sox
southpaw, has explained the inability
oI patters to connect with the left
nander's delivery, but his explana-
ton is counterfeit with this depart
ment- ears ago we went out to as
slst a left-handed cracker in ejecting
q razor back hog from the front yard.
SAID cracker grabbed a club and drew
bead on the hog. and deponent div
ed under the porch It looked like
ne was in line of fire, although at the
apex OF a triangle composed of self,
razor back and cracker Cracker
connected with said hog. and put him
out Tor the count. The answer is, that
no batter feels absolutely safe in front
OF left-handed pitcher. He can feel
the SpherOid boring into his spare
ribs; he has no confidence in pitchers
ABILITY to put it over the plate, but
Is confident that the tosser is aiming
at some point bat-ward of the slab
It is batter's lack of nerve. rather than
pltchers ability, that makes the
south slider an asset in the National
Game.
Demanding something is a favorite
indoor exercise of those who draft
resolutions or write open letters.
Colombia. one of the banana re-
publlcs of South America, has decided
to worry along without a visit from
Knox Colombia, in its virgin sim
plicity, is inviting a whole landing
party.
We have it on good authority, from
one who doesn't have to live on ten
times that sum, that no man should
get married on less than $1,10O per
year. We heartily concur. With that
income, the man may purchase pos
tage stamps and stationary to write
to relatives for relief and living ex-
penses. Postage being the only ne
cess1ty that has not risen in cost, he
might get by with 1t, providing, of
course. he has plenty of rich and
charitable relatives
The attempt to make a mystery
out of recent murder and suicide
case, was great frost. Outside of
that, the weather has been fairly
reasonable for several days
We have it from salaried mission
aries that China is Crying for Aid. But
until we are assured that no one will
raise the question as to whether we
are giving the Chinks Average Wages,
we prefer to retin our f1ve-cent piece.
A woman doesn't really know her
neighbors until after she has made an
excuse to borrow something, there
by breaking into the neigh boris kitch-
en- early in the morning, before clean
ing-up time.
Mrs. Claudia Wheeler, formerly the
Girl in the red tights says she can't
than $4,000 per annum. From
which one might suspect that Claudia
has taken on flesh to such an extent
that a two-dollar layout of red tights
would not constitute a wardrobe at
this time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
ADVER TXSING Talks

I knew-that is, I had presentiment--
that it would come about. and it has
come about.
1 refer to an order issued by Mr.. VIII
liam Randolph Hearst to his managers
Discontinue the printing of medical ad
vertisements in all of my newspapers -
which means the discontinuance of those
advertisements that are offensive sugges-
tive and unreliable, for, be it remember
ed. that there are some medicines advei-
tised quite as trustworthy and effective as
the prescriptions of reputable physicians.
It is only fair to Mr.. Hearst to say that
this move is not a new thought OF his.
worked in his organization for thirteen
years. and know it was always his
thought to have the advertising columns
of his newspapers clean and reliable.
His managers opposed his views. They
thought is was not necessary to discrim.-
nate as to the character of the advertis-
ing printed. They argued that the people
could determine for themselves which or
the advertisements were reliable and
which were not. They said
why should these newspap ers become
moral censors of advertising when ait
other newspapers are accepting all of the
ad advertisements they get2''
They urged strongly the commercial
side of the newspaper making. and they
succeeded in pe-suading Mr.. Hearst u
hold off, but they did not change his
some years have elapsed. can the aver
age person imagine the thousands n
things that must have the personal at
tention of man like Mr.. Hearst. in the
conduct of his many enterprises Is II
anv wonder that his advertising columns
could not get much OF his personal at
tention2
But. in due course. they came in for
his usual careful analysis and this time
when he issued fiis order it was final
It is a great move in behalf of clean
and honest advertising. Tt will have
great influence all over the country. II
will stimulate the whole advertising
movement toward better things.
am inclined to think that Mr.. Hearst
will go further-that his watchful eye
viii detect other than medical advertis-
ing which will come under his order
.sr1ove out gentlemen-we don't want
CTo be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
Il think I will wait. "

Il think I will wait
And 1 will surely come
There was a letter from the east in
due time 1t was not read to the IA
ther, but he heard of it and grumbled
We'll. 1 s'pose he got there all
right, and of course he writes back a
lot of boshy nonsense. Ma, you keep
your eye on Susie. That feller may
coax her to run away any time. Ding
my cats, but if / had ten more gals
I'd never let one of 'em learn to spell
dog!"
And when a year had gone by and
a young farmer asked why he couldn' [
come accounting Susie, the old man
answered:
"Bekase she's eddecated and don't
know beansi Eddecation brings ro-
nance, and romance takes away a
gals brainst"
A second year passed. The letters
came every week. but the writer not
at all-not until one spring day when
the mother ran down into the field
to say to the husband:
"Oh, pa, but it's all happened-it's
all happenedt'
Has that dinged smoke house
tipped over?''
mo, but that young man has
walked home from school with Susie
and he's through with college-and
he's got place that pays thousands
a year-and he's paid back her money
and wants to be married right away
-and-and-L"
Wen, I allus said 'twould conner
-tCopyright 1912 by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rErom the Chicago .News.1

TFrom the Chicago sNews.1
knowledge often causes q lot Of worry.
It's almost as easy to grow old as it is
to grow fat
And a weak head is easily influenced by
a full stomach
If man has brains he is seldom called
upon to submit the proof
Some men would rather go to church
than to a family reunion
With wireless politics. many politicians
would be unable to connect
It is safer to throw bouquets at the
dead than mud at the living
One year at college is enough to deprive
some young men of their common sense.
Before marriage he escorts her to
church: after marriage she has to drag
him there
Even a leap year girl should never sit
in mans lap without first asking his
permission
I theory may be all right SO long as
there is no occasion for converting it into
an experiment
The young man who asks a girl for a
kiss seldom gets it, The bee doesn't ask
the flower for its nectar, but it gets it
just the Sames
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
HUNOR or THE DAY

Knicker- Memory is strange. Booker
Yes; the landlord remembers 10 lay in
to have the boilers overhauled till after
a cold snap.-Judge-
What do you think Of this old world.
anyway" Il haven't time to think. six
children, house rent and the grocery bill
take up all my spare time. Detroit Free
Press.
Boss, would you help poor gent what
amt able TO work.. Why. YOU look
strong. What keeps you from worisinE2''
me blooming pride. sir."-London Tit
Bits.
Are YOU Interested in The recall2r Not
yet" replied the habitual candidate
What ] am Interested In Is a means ~
getting somewhere in the first place
Washington star
Rich Man-would you love my dauqh-
ter just much II she had DO money!
That's sufficient I don't want any idiofs
in this family.-Chicago News.
sickly One-Dr. Jones is all right II.
put me through the insurance examine
ton without "A hitch Robust One-You
bet he's all right. He gave me a cerfiff-
cate that got me of jury duty.-London
Opinion.
Adam IN the Garden Of Eden had just
he announced. but just think OF the fei-
low who will have 70 name All the dis
eases" Herewith ne pitied his posterity.
Puck.
What do YOU think about this '.r.
'Monna Lisa being stoien2" All Thee
hactresses be allus gettin' into trouble. -
NJ a. ?.
Here's something for Burbank to fo-,-
into" WHAT Training a f-i,rf-...-.lN
tree to sprout its own presents. ''-I,o',ie--
Vile Courier-Journal
Why He Was silent.-Marks-s 49,.
woke up last night to find your 80
cleaning out your pockets. Didn-t ",
ask her 70 stopY ParSs-No: IL aivav-
thing when her hands are IN the dourh---
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

attention or little passing applause
from the unthinking crowd. The pic
lures of the distress and oncoming
disaster which they would paint on
this country and its people are vicious
Hbels- Their efforts to array class
against class are traitorous to the
ideas on which this government was
founded and on which It has been so
gloriously maintained. They will not
be able to destroy, though, regard
less of their noisy manifestations. The
country is blessed with a sufficient
mum Der of people of sufficiently keen
ision to see through the shams of its
demagogues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

The Bible class presided over by John
d Rockefeller, Jr., has been doing a
little figuring on the expenses incidental
to matrimoEy participated in by young
couples of the middle class" The con-
clusfon Is that such couples should not
marry on an income of less than
<1,l00- Then follows the further cor
clusion thai the monthly expenses of
such couple total $102.50 In other
words, this class under the lead of a
man WIN ought to be possessed Of a
nrst-class fiji ancial training. has an
idea that a young couple of The mid
die class" only needs to come within
1886 Of making both ends meet each
gear. On this scale. ten years OF mar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Public approval is as unstable as a
tickle jade
Any journey is a short one if inter
esing company is along.
Prosperity spoils more people than
it helps to better things.
Twisting old jokes and proverbs
around is far from making new ones.
y X
There is only one way to keep a
Woodworking man from achieving
something of success. Bury him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
DAFFYDKLy
BY U. NOALL.

If George Washington gained fame
through hacking a tree what did Frank
Gotch gain Hackenschmidt?
CIV oops, my dear! There's a ring
around the moon-l
If Max is silent is Minimum
Get an ak. Here comes the village
cut-up9
When there is not enough wind to
keep the flags flying how can the cold
wave2
tSympathy is due that young man.
He was . valedictorian once-9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

Mayor Lew. Shank of Indianap-
oils, comes forward with a sugges-
ton that it might not be a bad plan
for producers to tag the price they re-
ceive on all the food-stuffs they sell.
This would show the consumers Just
how much tribute they were being
asked to pay to the middlemen. And
it would certainly have a tendency to
made the middlemen more moderate
in their demands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

Instead of devoting all of their ener-
gies to convincing congress that high
duties on cotton and cotton goods are
essential if the cotton industry in this
country is to be kept on firm basis.
why don't the men interested in this
business begin ar agitation in China
looking towards the lengthening of the
shirts worn by the Chinese? A man
Who has passed many years in the ORR
ent, says that If every Chinarnan
should lengthen his shirt nine inches,
he would absorb all of the cotton goods
produced in this country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

A ghost took the place of the usual
skeleton in the closet in a divorce suit
recently staged in Georgia. A young
wife was so haunted by the shade of
q former husband whom she had
promised she would never marry
again that she could not live in peace
and happiness with No. ?. SO he sued
for a divorce. This ought to boom
the business of the spiritualistic me-
diums among the unthinlSing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

Advicss from the atmospL eric pro-
fessors at Washington are to the ct
feet that the weather viii continue to
moderate. If this is so, the good, ole
summer time viii be here in a jiffy,
as far as temperatures are concerned.
Still. it is not we'll to place too much
stock in the weather representations
Of the professionals
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

There is likely to be a thorough
house cleaning in the Offices of most
men who have reason to expect that
government sleuths are on their trail.
Not many of them win take any
chances that tie transnitter OF a die
fagraph is concealed in any corner of
their rooms CT hidden away under Their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

Now that Richard T. Crane. late Of
Chicago. has passed on to his rewards,
who will take up the statement of the
warden of the Washington peniten-
tiary that there are fifteen college
men among the convicts in his care,
and use it as an argument against col
leee educatiOnS?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

Train robbers should take a college
course. Practice IN the football arena
would have a tendency to make tFcm
sure of their signals. It was because 4
bunch of them mixed their signals the
other night, that their attempted raid
on a mail train in In6iana developed
into n fasco
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
lFrom the New York Pfess.l

IFronl the New York Pfess.1
Along with the money a man inherits.
he usually inherits a passion to go
through II.
4 man can thinks he knows Shakespeare
if he hasn't a notion that Lear poisoned
Juliet
a man who wants praise is specially
crazy for it when he hasn't done any
thing to deserve it.
woman seWs on some new buttons
and then writes to her old town that She
has just got new dress
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

Presumably the Kentuckians who are
selling about a watch that has ben
running continuously for 1O6 years
without repair. are among those people
who look with skepticism on some Of
the stories put out by the nature fax
ere
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

There is great glee in the House Of
Dawson. Governor Stubs directed the
attorney general to give attention to
the Smith county bridge affair. some
days after mr.. Dawson had already
taken this matter up with Smith coup-
~ officials
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
THERE Is a QUIET ROAD.

There is quiet road
Worn smooth by pilgrim feet,
And over it tall, tender trees
Make shadows where they meet.
We leave the world behind
When on that road we fare:
Scent of the rose in summer lanes
And goodly friends are there.
And over hills of dusk
And through a lonely way
The Road of Sleep leads all OF us
Who weary of the day.
Charles Hansone Towne, in Lipp1n-
colts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

ried life would find such a couple in
debt to the extent of the rather terri
flying sum of $1,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

almost here are the piles of sassafras
bark in the drug store windows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

Progress in Mexico under Ndadero: He
has suspended the rights of the press to
absolute freedom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20

It's almost a foregone conclusion that
considerable of tie Chicago air which
Is to be tested will be found to be
either of the hot variety or foul.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
FROM OTHER PENS
ARMY REDUCTION.

In view OF the experiences Of the United
States at the time Of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, and especially in view OF the
happenings Of year ago on the Mexican
border, it seems incredible that there
duce the regular army to an extent AID
yet this Is the present tendency in the
house Of representatives, where the army
appropriation bill is now under discussion.
Amendments have already been adopted
Indicating that the house Will seriously
disarrange the organization 1t is possible,
of course, that the present system is
not the most effective That Is a matter
of expert Judgment and cannot be most
satisfa ctorily considered in connection
with the pursuit Of a policy OF mere
position to question the wisdom OF main
tanning a standing army OF sufficient size
to cope with conceiyaple emergenelesa.
Nor, on the other hand. is there desire Tor
an army big enough to protect the United
States in the case Of a foreign invasion
by large power. Reliance must be had
at all times upon the citizen soldicryg the
effective organization OF which constitutes
the first reserve, with ultimate Deepen
dence upon the organized mass OF the
people But even with the most effective
militia organization, the army must be
maintained at sufficient numbers TO sup
ply the necessary structural formation
for a military ampaign--W ashington
Star.
GERMANY'S NAVAL AMBITION.
The struggle for naval supremacy be-
tween Germany and Great Britain goes
on apace. The kaiser seems to have
scored a distance Of several leagues over
his worthy rival in the recent invention
of a new engine of war which, II is sad.
when perfected, VII make the modern
dreadnought look like an obsolete man
of-war. This new machine is a contriv-
ance for internal combustion, which prom
ises to revolutionize the system Of naval
warfare.
England may be expected to exert
mightier effort than ever to retain its
supremacy the seas, for there are
frrfp mi
permit Germany to lead II too FAR IN
this line Of achievement. How utterly
empty is all the talk Of disarmament be-
side these aggressive movements abroad.
They are not necessarily inimical TO the
doctrine Of world peace, at least as an
irons at this stage OF the controversy
Omaha Bee.