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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
JAYHAWKER JOT.S

Mr. Bean is among those present at
Amherst, Russell county.
In the Kansas strange name con-
test, Bohumil Hnizda, of near Marys-
vile, ought to walk away with one of
the prizes.
Fred w. Knapp, publisher of the
Be1o1t Gazette is one of the old-fash-
Toned young fellows who occasionally
refers to himself in his paper as we
editor
What's this? The Elkader CORE
spondent of the Oakley Graphic says:
1T appears to me that there are go
ing to be crops in this vicinity regard
less of the dry weather.
The Farmers and. Merchants bank,
of Hill City, is promoting agricultural
activity in its locality in a practical
way. 1t offers cash prize of 500 for
kafir-corn (grain) from a field of not
less than ten acres, grown on upland
in Graham county during the year
1912.
A high school note in the Beloit Ga
zette: Probably one of the smost disaS-
trous catastrophes that has ever hap
pened in this universe occurred last
week when Marion, Kan, high
school girl became very much excited
and il the midst of the excitem ent
her false eyebrows melted away. She
has the sympathy of all.
A political observation by the Oak
ley Graphic: 1t is said the common
peepul' are the ones who should run
the government, that is right. Still
there are precincts where a hundred
dollars will buy a hundred votes and
where four gallons of whisky makes
more votes than a car load of Bibles.
Lib Corduroy, who has a bad stom-
acn, was told by his doctor to see if
he could hold a pickle on his stomach
over night, relates the Atchison
Globe. He tried 1t, and the next
morning said to the doctor: 1.-The
experiment was a failure. doctor
for every time I went to sleep the
pickle rolled off my stomach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

We're silence really golden more
people would become it's devotees.
x X
A surgical operation can scarcely
be considered a success unless the
physician collects all of his fee.
= +
If you have the right kind of bait
you can catch almost anything you
may want that is in the sea of life.
People who sigh for the good old
times are blind to the many and won
derful opportunities of the present era.
x X
The great bulk of the average per-
sons mail is confined to advertising
matter and requests to contribute to
this or that cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcH1soN GLOBE.

There isn't any such thing as being
part honest"
If bluff is about the right size. it
won't he called.
How safe we feel when we don't
know we're in danger!
1t is hard to discourage bully, but
whippins him will do it.
Your credit is always good enough
to enable you to borrow trouble.
Most any man will work pretty hard
at beating a carpet; it makes him so
mad.
You men know how easily women
fool you. SO don't blame the gentle
jury so much
About all one can say for tramps
is that they dress better than those
seen on the stage.
about a Fool Law, he is referring to
one he would like to violate.
When the average man counts the
money in his pocket, he is figuring on
what he is going to spend it for.
Contrary to expectations voiced few
years ago, none of the great fortunes
have been amassed raising mushrooms.
Probably you would kick and scream
as much as the children do, if you
hadn't learned that system doesn't helE
much.
Many of the CLAIMS handed the idle
rich are delivered by poor loafers who
are peeved because they can't get paid
for their idleness.
Everyone knows lemonade is better
than beer. but the fool streak is SO
generally distributed that lemonade will
never lead in popularity.
A great deal of fun is made of the
commencement Grafton. but we incline
to the belief that it took smart man
to compile the encyclopedia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
KANSAS COMMENT
PRIMARIES ARE EXPENSIVE.

PRIMARIES ARE EXPENSIVE
Some sweet day the taxpayers VIII
rise up and swat the primary election
to nominate party candidates. 1t IL
fraud and delusion and is aonor-
mally expensive@ SO far as the oedr
people" making the nomination II IS
incorrect It is the fellows who butt
in and have the money TO spend ano
advertise literally in press and by post
ers, cards, etc, ana can employ paio
workers. In many cases those get
ting the highest vote are way in the
minority. and often they could not
get a nomination in representative
convention. This is true of Stuobs
and Bristow, and others. Why should
taxpayers be assessed to nominate a
candidate for office? If it is a free
for-an, let all have a show If a part
wants a ticket and a platform why
not let its partisans meet in open eau
Gus and convention as when they nom
mated Lincoln, Roosevelt and Taft and
nominate whom they please and bear
all the expense. If the system was
honest enough to bring out Mckin-
ley or Roosevelt 1T is honest enough
for the present. Here is statement
as to the recent primary in New YORK
forced by the insurgents, and delayed
by insurgent suits, and now denounced
by the insurgents because Roosevelt
lost out. 1T cost the taxpayers from
$3.50 to $1O.50 for each vote at the
recent primaries in western New York
according to figures compiled by the
local election commissioners. The mini
mum cost was $1.50, and most Of the
figures shown were considerably above
that figure. The cost in New York
city is said to average about 50 pei
vote.-South Kansas Tribune.
HELP FOR BACKWARD PUPILS.
A study is being made of the physi-
cal and mental defects of the stu
dents in the public schools over the
land. Time will come when the school
he ards will employ a regular phN u
clan to examine the pupils. It has
been fund that Il a majority of the
cases of laggards physical defects,
easily remedied, cause the pupil to
be classed as dull and backward. A
lot of mental suffering among the lit
tie ones could be obliterated If this
physical examination was made in
every school room in the public
schools. We all know how a child
dislikes to be behind others of the
same age. Why not remedy this? p
Newton Kansan- Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New. York Press.l

lfrOIn the new. IOrk RTeSS.l
Riches may not bring contentfnert,
but most of us would be satisfied with
one of the very clever limitations
Belle-''Maude is all pulled I'D about
her new dress" Delle-"She ought tC
be; she got it with cigar coupons"
Sam-"That fat girl over there seems
to be very well liked" Ham-"Yes;
she's an all-around favorite.'
Gink-"What makes you think But
fem owes everything to his wife?" Dink
Last night when 1 passed there L
heard him shout IN pay you back for
that; you see if 1 don't!'"
Hiram-"T happened by Cy's this
forenoon and he was a-sawing his
benches in half. I wonder what that
was fo'?" Hank-'I calkalate he wus
a-gittin' ready TO them there spoony
boarders of hisn.''
When the dice are loaded and the
players cheat and the game is going
bad, and your path is goaded and fan
from sweet and your face is lined and
sad; cheer up, old man, and stick fl
through; don't let them see you quit,
show them you can and some day you
won't be the one that's hit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Colonel Roosevelt was always an
ardent stickler for regular Republi-
canism and the organization that was
necessary to give it life and substance
as long as the party and its organiza-
ton kept him in positions of public
prominence and power. But the
party and the organization that has
honored him above any of its other
members seems now in his eyes to be
more worthless than the homeless
ours on. city's streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
From the New York Press

CFrom the New York Press
The trouble with patience is the mora
you have the more people make you
use it.
Lying about not having corns IS
mighty poor comfort when they get
stepped on.
A woman knows she trusts another
absolutely with her secrets by how
nervous it makes her to do il.
1t doesn't take the courage for a man
to go downstairs to see II there are
burglars that it does for his wife to let
him
Heaps of men pretend to be so proud
of how their wives can make their own
clothes so they won't be asked to paw
for them in shops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

West side gossips are All Wrought
up over a conversation they heard in a
neighbours back yard last evening. They
heard woman tell her husband TO
beat it. OF course they didn't notice
the hall rug hanging on the clothes
line ------..-
Someone wants to trade something
for clear Topeka property. Clear To-
peka property ought to be easy enough
to find since the last snow melted.
Even a rabbit can die game. That's
a good one to remember when you get
in a tight place.
Because, the best local and long dis
lance waller in the world can't yelp
loud enough to put out a fire or STOP
sinking ship from following the laws
of gravity.
So he might as well cut out the weeps.
and act like he was used to making a
quick finish.
And many natural towards have Sc
cured a reputation for bravery, not be-
they had sense enough to know that
making a holy show of themselves
would not avert danger.
our European Trip mas Deen post
poned until the completion of an inter
continental concrete bridge.
The question of the Lady or the Tiger
may yet be settled. A medium claims
to have a direct wire to the late Franz
r. Stockton.
It makes a woman furious to bS
Weakened from her afternoon nap by
the door bell, only to find an adver-
tisement folder behind the door knob.
There is one disadvantage to work
ing short hours. There is danger that
a man may get home early enough tc
help with the spring house cleaning.
Plans are under way to give Wichita
to Hon Teddyfelt, and, although we
have no objections, it is doubtful if he
will take it, if it is anywhere nearly
as bad as the administration spoilers
have painted it.
This colyum is growing worse all the
time, but we are trying to close a deal
with Frank farrell to write a portion
of it. If any improvement is noted, 1t
may be taken for granted that Frank
is on the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

The first delegates selected in kan
sasfor Metropolitan national conven-
ton have been instructed for Mr.. Taft.
This surely won't be a very attractive
bouquet to present to Colonel Roose-
Welt when he arrives here soon for a
brief visit. Incidentally, had these
delegates been instructed for the COL
cnel it would have been another of
those tremendous regulations of
the president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
DAFFYDHS
BY u NOALL.

Does the jolly tar flow from a tree?
(Say!i Amt you never had no edu-
cation?1
Do ships have eyes when they go to
sea2
(Shiver me timbers. mates, but that's
some breeze.)
Are there springs in the bed of the
ocean?
(George!l It's your turn to buy.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Who is there now to insist thatthere
is a good deal of the mythical about
women taking advantage of Leap
Year? Colonel E. H. R. Green. son of
General Hetty Green, declares he has
received no less than a thousand pro-
posals of marriage from as many
maids and matrons since the first. of
the year. And the year is only four
months old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

the settlement of the controversy that
is now raging in the ranks of the Re
publican party. In Iowa the other
day, he said; st think we are going
to win this year, but If we don't we
are in for three years of war" In 9TH
er words, Colonel Roosevelt seldom
means what he says. Therefore, it
would not be wise for the people to
put too much stock in any of the
campaign promises he is making
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Three persons were killed. twenty in
jured and hundred made homeless by
two tornadoes that swept over St.
Francis county. Missouri, a couple of
nights ago. Seven lines is the average
amount of space that the newspapers
outside of Missouri have -iven to this
disaster. If a half a tornado had hit
any spot in Kansas and torn the roof
off barn. 1T would have been good for
a couple of columns in the biggest
newspapers all over the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Steamship officials continue to act
like the railroad officials used to in
suppressing for as long as possible the
facts in their possession telling about
disasters happening under their SUI
pervision. Railroad officials have long
since learned the folly of such endeav-
ors. The sooner the worst is known,
the better it is for all concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

New York, Chicago and Pittsburg
are the taiI-enders in the race for the
National League pennant. In other
words, the standing of the teams at
the beginning of a baseball season
cannot be considered as a criterion of
what it will be when the season
draws to a close.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Are not the major powers going to
unnecessary trouble to arrange q
peace pact between Italy and Turkey?
Peaceful conditions have been prevail
ing in Tripoli for a long time. At
least, no reports of fighting have come
from there for many months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Something real in the way of an
old-fashioned Democratic convention
was staged in Chicago the other day.
Judges armed with injunctions, state
troops and policemen, as we'll as OPP
posing delegates, all mixed in the
fight. The spoils of politics must be
large to encourage such serious con-
tests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Normal conditions prevail again in
the. wheat market. Presumably the
manipulators of this market have sue
ceeded in picking clean the many out
siders who are SO foolish as to take
flyers in wheat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Baseball enthusiasm in Topeka is
running high, but it would run higher
II the weather man was only inclined
to be a trifle more decent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Now there's a great rush to lock
the stable door. Members of congress
have suddenly arrived at the conclu-
sion that ocean liners do not carry
sufficient lifeboats
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Those twenty 1ife-boats that were
on the Titanic may have been numer-
ically in excess of the requirements,
but they were woefuly incommensur-
ate with the necessities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
HUAOR or THE DAY

A little English girl went to India,
and at the first New Years away
from home she wrote to her devout
mother: ut is now very hot, and 1
perspire a great deal, but you will be
pleased to hear that am still mem
Der of the Church of England. Elk
change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
FROM OTHER PENS
NOT ENOUGH FOOD PRODUCED

NOT ENOUGH FOOD PRODUCED
HERE.
The fact that potatoes to the extent
of 100000 bushels were imported
into the United States in the month of
February, 1912, should fill the Amer
lean people, who boast so much of
the fertility and fruitfulness of their
great country, with shame. 1t is not
that we are unable to grow enough
of these homely vegetables for our
own food, but the fact is that our
people refuse to do it, and hence they
must import from less fruitful lands,
where the people are still willing or
are compelled by their necessities to
till the soil. According to a report of
the bureau of statistics at Washtn\ Lon
there were imported into the United
States for the eight months ending
with February last breadstuffs to the
amount of 100000 900 and meats and
food animals to the amount of over
$20,000,000. Formerly we did large
part in feeding the rest of the world.
Apparently we do not feed ourselves,
and unles some great change shall
people of this country to any sort Of
take place in the antipathy of the
agricultural labor we will have to draw
the greatest part of our food supplies
from foreign countries.-New Orleans
Picayune.
GRAND OPERA AND CHILDREN.
An excellent educational feature Of
grand opera week is the practice, now
setting aside certain afternoons upon
which skilled story-tellers will mar
rate to the children of the city, in
simple language and with fascinating
metaphor, the plot and recitative of
the various operas to be staged by the
Metropolitan Opera company.
Whatever else may be said Of the
child mind, it's leading character is it's
receptivity. Like nothing else in
creation, it illustrates the old compar-
iSOn, like wax to receive, like marble
to RETAIN" If the average individual
had sufficient reach of memory and
power of self-analysis, he would have
little difficulty in tracing the thought
he holds today and hisaoutlook upon
life to what he absorbed when the
mind was fresh and unwarped by later
experiences or Establishments.
In many of the operas are beauti-
full and inspiring lessons which may,
with profit, be aSsimilated by the child
at it's formative age. Not all of them
are somber or tragicg Where they are
they carry a moral which, carefully
delineated, removes the sting and
leaves only the Observation-Disclosures Con-
stitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Present indications are that an
other ice crop will soon be ready for
harvesting in~Kansas, sunny Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

If this is gentle spring, the people
hereabouts should be exceedingly
thankful that they escaped a rough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Not so long ago. Colonel Roosevelt
declared that he would abide by the
decision of the National convention in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARsONa

Death and taxes are sure things, but.
for that matter, SO is the state house
dandelion crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

West side gossips are All Wrought
up over conversation they heard in a
neighbor'S back yard last evening. They
heard a woman tell her husband TO
beat It. OF course they didn't notice
the hall rug hanging on the clothes
line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Someone wants to trade something
for clear Topeka property. Clear To-
peka property ought to be easy enough
to find since the last snow melted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Even a rabbit can die game That's
good one to remember when you get
in a tight place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18

Because, the best local and long dis
lance waller in the world can't yelp
loud enough to put out a fire or stop
sinking ship from following the laws
of gravity.
The Calumet news., 1912-07-29
"MAN OF MYSTERY" IS FOUND
Juror Recognizes Witness as Man
Whom He Had Long Sought.

Denver, Colo.-"There is the man of
mystery who saved my life fifteen
years ago. have never laid eyes on
him to thank him for his daring and
bravery, and | can't wait until | get
out OF this jury box to put my arms
around him and tell him what | think
OF him." said Patrick McAndrews,
1uryman on the present panel of the
federal court. when Gideon Burton of
Longmont took the stand to take oath
to testify in the case of the govern
ment against the Colorado Contract In
vestment company.
McAndrews and Burton were resi-
dents OF the western slope fifteen
years ago. and when the former was
seriously injured during a cold winter,
Burton. who did not know McAndrews
at that time, was nelr and rushed to
his aid, He carried him twelve miles
at breakneck speed on his sled to a
doctor and saved his life.
II took McAndrews months to re-
cover, and when he was we'll he sought
the man who saved him.
The Calumet news., 1912-07-29
CHILD SHOWS RARE NERVE
Seven-Year-oid Girl Walks Mile With
Mangled Hand and Sees Fingers
Amputated.

Glendale. Del.-With one hand
nearly cut off as the result of al acci-
dent. Mary Corkhill, a seven.year-old
child, displayed remarkable bravery
and fortitude when she walked more
than mile and then calmly held her
hand while physician amputated
four of the fingers. The little girl
and her younger brother were playing
in the woods when the boy picked up
an ak and cut the girl so that two fin.
gers were severed, two mangled and
the hand nearly severed at the wrist.
The child bound a string around the
arm to keep II from bleeding. walked
TO her home with the brother and then
held her hand for amputation. stopping
TO forgive the brother with a kiss as
the surgeons knife did It's work. II
was only after the dressing OF the
wounded member was completed that
the child's iron nerve gave way and
she cried.
The Calumet news., 1912-07-29
CLASSIC MUSIC FOR POOR
New Workers Perform for 600 Of the
Big city's FIotsam-Absence Of
Boisterousness Is Noted.

New York.-A group of prominent
musicians who believe that the mu-
sic OF the classic masters has tre-
mendous emotional influence for good
upon men OF all classes offered some
time ago to test their theory through
a series of high class concerts i'm the
Bowery mission. The first of these
concerts was given with about coo
men, typical of the city's flotsam, as
the audience. The performers were
two soloists and a cello and tho com
posers represented on the program
were Rubinstein. Schumann, Mendels-
sohn and Tschaikowsky. According to
the officials of the mission the expert
ment was a success.
The audience was made up of fan
mel shirted, ragged, unwashed speci-
mems, who had sought relief from the
dreariness of their cheap lodging
houses or the heat of the streets. They
wero of every race, of every creed or
stage of unbelief But all listened
with unfeigned interest and apprecia-
tion to the music. Applause came sui
lenly at first. then enthusiastically.
Such 'uplift" as there was made itself
apparent in the absence of the
bolsterousness that usually attends
the breaking up of Bowery mission
meetings.
The Calumet news., 1912-07-29
BELL CRAzES BITING DOG
Its Changing Made the Brute Attack
Pennsylvania Farmer-ls Killed
by Son.

Carlisle, Pa.-Jacob Heiser, slxty-five
years old, farmer residing near here,
Is under the care of a physician as the
result of being horribly bitten by his
big shepherd dog, which had been
crazed by the changing of big dinner
bell on top of one of the farm build,
ings. Heiser's life was probably saved
by his son Elmer. who came to the
rescue with a revolver, putting four
bullets into the animal and killing II.
When the dog rushed Farmer Heis-
er was knocked to the ground by the
attack and the animal savagely fas-
tened its fangs In the mans legs and
tore at his clothing I'm an effort TO
reach his throat. Heiser fought as
best he could, and his daughter assist
ed him, attacking the animal with
stick.
Heiser is terribly bitten on his chest
and legs and the tendon in his left leg
is badly torn.