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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-15
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
THE COUNTY ENGINEER.

About twenty-five counties in Kan
sas, acting under the new law, will
spend from $4,000 to $4,000 for
state and county roads in 1912, points
out the Kansas Industrialist, and it
continues: AS the building of roads is
new to most of the county commits
sioners, and in many cases these
boards are entirely inexperienced in
this work, large amounts will be vast
ed in poor and faulty construction if
this money is not handled judiciousIy
These state and county roads should
be, in every respect, models for the
community. There must be com
petent engineer employed to direct
this county road and bridge work and
to assist the township officials An
incompetent man will be little if any
better than none, but if a thoroughly
competent, experienced county en-
gineer is appointed he will save to the
county his yearly salary every two
months.
The question has been asked many
times whether county engineer must
be appointed in all counties. The at
torney generals opinion is:
Section 81 of chapter 24s of the
laws of 1911 makes the county sur
gineer only in case he be, in the judg-
ment of the county commissioners,
competent to superintend the county
and state roads. If in the Judgment
of the county commissioners, the
county surveyor be not competent to
superintend the county roads, he
should not be appointed county en-
gineer, but anothe- person who is
competent should be appointed. The
county commissioner should exercise
their honest judgment in this respect
and do so with strict impartiality and
absolute good faith
1.-THE question arises as to whether
or not the law requires the county
commissioners to appoint an engineer.
In my judgment it does. It is true
that section 81 uses the word may
which in general is permissive and not
mandatory. But we must not read
section 27 alone. We must read it in
connection with all other sections of
chapter 248 or any other road law in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13

Kansas. Section &c imposes certain
duties on the county engineer. Sec
ton 81 provides that the county en-
gineers, with the approval of the coun-
ty commissioners. shall determine
what state and county roads can be
dragged, and shall arrange every year
for dragging state and county roads
upon such terms as the county COM
missioners and the county engineer
may dictate, and provides further that
any officer under the authority of this
section who shall neglect or refuse to
enforce the provisions of this section,
as relates to dragging of roads, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall upon conviction, be fined.
Several other sections of this chapter
require acts to be performed, and the
performance of those acts is made
necessarily to depend upon the exist
ence of county engineer. Therefore,
very clearly, in my judgment, does
chapter 24S make it the absolute duty
of the county commissioners to ap-
point county engineer who is COM
petent to perform his duty"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
LAXHAWKER JOT.y

Here's pertinent question from the
Pratt Uion: Why is a 'knocker'' new
err found among the leading business
| men?
When Ike Porter and Mike Begley
| get their heads together they can turn
and it gives this illustration: They
met the other day and produced the
following gem:
Hello Ike,
Hello Mike"
Writes Mrs. E. E. Kelley in the best
, column on the Toronto Republican,
editorial page: Does a country wom-
an ever become thoroughly town
broke? When I hear the redbirds
calling and the doves grooming it is
hard to go on sewing or washing
dishes. I want to put on my old straw
hat and wander amid the sylvan
shades instead. Just now I can hear
the woodthrush, and it always stirs
that one thing. What it is I do not
know. I cannot put it into words, but
it is as nearly an echo of the eternal
peace of Heaven or anything on Earth
can be.
Nothing seems to shrink in the
same proportion as wild duck after
it is dressed, insists the Atchison
Globe. An Atchison brides husband
was presented with two mallard
ducks some time ago, and the bride
d
that night. Each mallard looked
about the size of the goose she had
served to four people a. Christmas
time, so she invited eight guests. She
told them delighted1y that they were
to dine on wild duck. The bride sent
the ducks to a co1ored woman to be
dressed, and at o'clock the colOred
woman returned and handed the Atch-
ison bride china bowl about five
inches across covered with a saucer.
Whats this?" she asked. "Them's
your ducks" said the colored wom-
an. The guests wondered why they
were served with roast beef instead of
duck, but none of them dared ask.
My young friend, don't refer to your
father as the "old man" nor your
mother as the "old woman" advises
Bert Walker in his Osborne Farmer.
Such terms are too coarse to come
from the mouth of any son or daugh-
ter, no matter what their parents are
or have been. 1t may pass in some
quarters to refer to your father as
the "old man." but always speak of
your mother with the tenderest terms.
Mother doesn't like to be referred to
as the "old woman" She may be
wrinkled and her hair may be thin
and gray, but she is entitled to more
endearing terms from her children.
Father and mother don't get all that
is due them in this world, anyway.
That is, they don't get full value from
their children. Once in a while some
rather ana some mother receive their
full portion, but in many cases that
you can name and I can name, poor
father and mother have gone to their
last sleep unrewarded by those they
gave their all for. So I say, don't be
one of those who forget. The day
may come when you will have chill
dren of your own. The law of COM
pensation is so sure and certain, that
the pendulum you push out of your
way in the flowery days of youth may
swing back and strike you in the
evening of your gray hairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
SAYS UNCLE CAV

1t is folly to be your OWN worst
enemy; wisdom to be your own hard
est master. By the same token, he
who most pities himself harms him
self the most. To be lenient with
ones self is to encourage excuses,
whims, emotional errors-to under
mine ones whole moral fabric in the
end. Leniency is for others-for our
own shortcomings there should be
no forgiveness. You are the master
that you can least afford to disap-
point; you are the one master who
cannot afford to temper with mercy
his dealings with you.
He is his own worst enemy" re-
marked a friend to me, indicating a
mutual acquaintance.
''Why?" I asked.
"Hoo is too good to himself"
Out of this apparent paradox spring
eth great wisdom. He who does not
drive himself is seldom effectively
driven; he who is not driven seldom
tolls. The failures who have been
too good to themselves" are as the
sands of the sea. They are those who
have counted the cost, who have taken
pity upon themselves and turned back
from high deeds of usefulness. They
are those who have cringed in antici-
patton of imminent blows and in self
commiseration justified their coward
~ parts. Iney are IHOSe WHO maven [
taken account of their unhappy lots
and made excuses because of their
misfortunes, have given over to weari
ness, pain and fear, while others dis
regarded them and went on to fight
the good fight. I
Strikers, poltroons, maligners,
cowards-miserah1e human misf1ts
all-they have lacked the spur to
make them men. For, through self
pity, they have turned aside the
pricks of pride and ambition, and,
being no longer driven, have fallen
by the wayside. They "have been too
good to themselves. * copyrighted
1912 by w r. wifliamsO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
QUAKER MEDITATTONs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.J
Give hustler half chance, and he
will take all of 1t.
Clever is about the most abused word
in the English language.
Just suppose the Amalgamated Union of
Campaign Lies should be called out on a
strike. Eli what?
No, Maude dear; we do not believe that
President Taft shares the popular belief
that nobody loves a fat man.
Lightning never strikes twice in the
same place, in which respect Hard Luck
can give Lightning cards and spades.
Blobbs-sT think Harduppe's stories are
overdrawn-" Slopps-'So is his bank ac-
count, as I happen to know to my sor-
row."
After they have been married for about
five years, when a woman's own husband
asks her to dance. she is never quite sure
whether he is getting 1over-hlxe again or
has been drinking.
They were arranging for the tabIeaux
Let us give Miss YellowIeaf the part of
Truth" suggested Nell. "Why?" demand
ed Belle Because she is so plain and
disagreeable,'' explained Nell.
Ornithologists to the contrary notwith-
standing, the average boarding house
common or garden variety of chicken ran
more to wings than the pelican, and more
to neck than the giraffe.
tAre you sure you do not want to
marry me for my money!" she said He
drew himself up proudly. Money is moth
ing to me- he exclaimed II should be
happy If never earned a cent in my life
SO long as I have you" And, having put
him to the test, she was supremely happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
EXTRAVAGANCE AT COMMENCE
MENTS.

In an article in the May Woman's
Home Companion it is stated that at
nearly every high school commence
ment great extravaganza is INDUCED in.
In a good many parts of the country
efforts are being made to reduce the
amount of money spent for these oc-
casions. A high school in New York
city, for example, last year kept the
average cost to 81 each, and this year
it proposes to reduce it to 80 cents A
good many obstacles are confronted,
however, by those who undertake to
preach economy. Following is an in
teresting extract from the article on
this point:
For illustration: in Xenia, Ohio,
there was a determined effort to have
the graduation gowns simple and in
expensive. The school board, the
teachers, and the well to do mothers
were delighted. Most of the class
favored white pique skirts and MILDLY
bIouses, but one girl objected to this
plain costume.
eat commencement she appeared in
a lovely gown and with loads of flow
ers. AS her sister explained, she was
northumberland all through In
null dress, messaline slip. silk under
vest and stockings. and satin slippers,
she was far away the best dressed girl
in her class. And her mother makes
her living over the wash-tub!
"They also tried to bring reform in
the high school commencement in
Miamisburg, Ohio, last year, but one
of the girls held cut against it, with
the support of an older sister. The
reformers tried to reason with the sis
ter, who was perfectly frank about it:
1--WE are a family of school teach
ers,' she explained. Emily is the
youngest, but it will, be just the same
with her. Five of us have never mar
ried, but have gone on with the grind
year after year. We never have worn
a wedding dress, and never will. I
wore a linen suit to graduate in, and
have felt cheated ever since. Emily
shall have the prettiest and most
elaborate dress we cGl- make for her."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

tFrom the Chicago News.I
The world is a treadr1iu for ALL
cepting the drivers " @ii-eA-
Happy is the man who doesn't want
boy can earn living II his father re-
fuses to do It for him.
Old people have lived in vain II thew
haven't learned patience 'neS
II glrI really objects to being kissed
Every married man is boss in his ou,n
home when his wife's away WI
Business is improving. The cIockmakers
are putting on more hands
Lots of men follow the races-probabIv
because they can't get ahead of them.
The oftener a baseball player goes on
a bat the lower his batting average will
be-
Even If a woman has no use for a man
she can be flattered IL he pretends to be
jealous of her.
Every time married man loses money
he has a chance to regret that his wife
didn't spend 1t foolishly.
It sometimes happens that a man
doesn't need to hide his light under 4
bushel. because 1t can't even be seen In
the open
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
FATHER OF THE AERoPLANE.

The celebration by the Washington
Aero club, on Monday, of the sixteenth
anniversary of the first fight of a
heavier-than-air machine did not re-
ceive the public attention it deserved.
In the brilliant triumphs of the Wright
brothers, Curtiss and the French avia-
tors the pioneer efforts in the field of
aeronautics of Professor Samuel P.
Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution,
have almost been forgotten.
Professor Langley devoted practically
all the latter part of his life to the
perfection of a practical aeroplane. He
brought to the task boundless enthus-
iasm. unconquerable determination and
thorough scientific training. Those
who saw the aeroplanes which he sent
on experimental flights over the Poto-
mac river will remember that they
embodied the main principles upon
which the modern aeropIane is con-
structed. In spite of repeated failures,
he was confident that the theories he
had worked out were the right ones.
And subsequent developments proved
that they were sound. Had he been
able to make his experiments in seclu-
sion, as the Wright brothers did, and
had not death put an untimely end to
his labors, it now seems more than
probable that to him would have fallen
the distinction Of constructing the first
practical aeroplane.
Beyond a doubt Professor Langley
blazed the trail for the successful aero
plane inventors and none are more
ready to acknowledge this than the
ri re oil
lines on which he experimental When
the history Of the conquest of the air
is written, Professor Langley will be
accorded the honor of having been the
father of the flying machine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
She Believed Jack.

protect me from that man. gasped
a handsome young woman, as she
rushed up to Policeman Cowley at
125th street and Eighth avenue. Save
mel'' She pointed to a tall, athletic
looking chap who was walking toward
her. HE is my husband. 1 have not
seen him for months until a few min
utes ago, and now he threatens to
shoot me-"
AS the man came close Cowley leap
ed upon him and quickly searched him.
In his hip pocket the policeman found
a handkerchief. The man laughed.
"Grace, you know = haven't a pistol
and wouldn't shoot you if 1 had"
"Jack!" screamed the woman. you
told me you had a pistol and / always
believed everything you said"
Then she began to cry. Jack" drew
closer and said:
viii you believe I love you if
say it?''
The woman looked at him a mo-
ment, then threw her arms about his
neck and kissed him, smack. Then
they went away together, she clinging
to his arm.
''Well, I'll be-hanged!' said Cow
ley.-New York Yorld.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
HUNOR or THE DRY

81 am afraid that Rie1ons ,Io,,. =.
on Sunday Maybe" said tbs 80.
s semptuous rival. But, If so, it's the onIv
s gay IN the seven on which he does nisyy
ne hymn goes dat you wants ter he ~,
angel angei put ef yes. had wings right now
sidast nlre 70 ser cut as a curiosity IN a
mat audience cheered my remarks -.
pSateoIy- Yess," relied the mores mar
never saw an audience that vvo,,id-.ss
rather hear itself holler than Iists- I
somebody's talk. Washington star. ~
Almost a ProposaI-dr. CSoodca.,1, -,
hight cigar? Miss Widea wska n Ian an
vas m,sn nm me 70 regard you as match ?OBos-
Hell think her mind is p,ado 81
Post VI ief is!-Chcago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13

I don't feel sorry for myself. Per-
haps I've just been clinging to a
dream. But she knew him and lived
close to him and, oh, I hope he loved
her best 1t would be so tragic if
If she is mourning a false lover.
Amos"
And you?" Amos asked,
Il found out after he came east
that he wasn't all that had thought
he was-but thought he loved me
and it seemed so pitiful for him to be
up here alone-with no one to care
and SO I tried to be true"
There was a light in Amos's eyes
as he bent over her. "And now that
he has some one to love him-can't
you pity me-Ame ella ?"
Il declare said Mrs. Lowell. a
month later. Amos says Amelia is
going to marry him. And when I ask
ed him his favorite color. he laughed
and said it was blue.''-(Copyrigh
1912 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
rhe years ..Rest sener..

The first edition was published January
L. Three weeks later a seventh printing
was under way. 1t is the best selling book
in Pennsylvania-the best selling book IN
Illinois. By reference to librarians sta
tistics, 1t is one of the six best sellers =
no, it is the best seller of the year-the
seed catalogue-of which three million
copies are sent out annually! Have yoL,
gentle reader sent for your copy OF
this enhancing book 1t is a romance
which must thrill even those readers
whose penchant is for the heroes of Du-
mas and the heroineS of Scott. 1t has set
ting, plot. character, adventure, imagina-
ton. idealism, beauty, and love.-Subur-
ban Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
MY BOY.

MY boy, you cease to come at night
TO gladly climb upon my knee;
Your childhood days have taken flight
And soon you will be leaving me;
may not greet you with a kiss
Lest your manhood should offend.
But, oh, my boy, remember this:
Ihat 1 remain your stanchest friend.
Your work is waiting for your hand,
The world will call to you ere long
To serve or to assume command,
To show If you are weak or strong;
Upon the rung your foot is set;
God gave you courage to ascend.
But well or i'll, do not forget
That remain your steadfast friend.
My boy, your playtime soon shall be
A pleasant memory, no more;
But in your need come back to me,
Nor pause to knock upon my door.
The world will strive to break your will,
Your trust in sorrow oft will end.
But, come what may, remember still
That remain your faithful friend.
S. E. Kiser, in the Chicago Record-Her-
aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13

No man is actually as poor as he
thinks he is.
Almost anybody is willing to lend
little trouble.
Nor is the longer way round the
shortest way there if you have an air.
ship.
If more suggestions from others
were acted upon, there'd be much
more trouble in this old world.
~ n -
Good advice is the cheapest COM
modify floating around but few people
are willing to take it at any price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13

with playing pool. There seems to be
a tendency to convict him before find
ing out what kind of a game he
played
When the weather is best suited to
the drowning of young ducks, and a
wop comes along and says: Fine day,
amt it?" he is not the optimist he
thinks himself. but just plain blamed
chump.
Jawn Dawson thinks he has prov
en- his contention that the mayoress
of Hunnewell is a perfect gentleman
and that the city council of said cross
roads is not. But up to late hour
Saturday afternoon. he was not fully
satisfied that the supreme court would
sustain his judgment. In other words,
he suspects the supreme court OF hav-
ing no sense of humor.
1t may be noted that the principal
objection in congress to Topeka
scheme to get something beside flood
water out of the Kaw river was op-
posed by only one member, and that
one the member who got all his fun
and money in Topeka but represents
another district.
Considering the fact that he is gus
.pected of having played an alto horn
at K. u, this is pretty good one from
4 L
always breed contempt, but it often
generates indifference.
1t is easy to spot the strongest can
didates from the opposite point of
view. The Roosevelt organs are all
hammering Champ Clark, and the
Democratic newspapers are trying to
make Roosevelt look like the Repub
lican Last Chance and Taft appear
weak sister.
Ad wolgast has demonstrated that
the vermiform thing is a superfluous
article. He has plenty of them
without it.
The Government biologist says the
way to abate the sparrow is to eat
him, but we hold that, considering the
price of meat during the past three
years, some one would have found it
out before now were the sparrow an
edible fruit.
Add price of meat: You can get
used to anything,-if held down long
you will cease to kick. Meat
costs more now than it did three or
four years ago when meat boycottS
were popular, and every front page
carried a high rice-of-meat" scare
head.
Ismay was cheered when he ar
rived at Liverpool. 1t takes an En-
glishman just as long to see anything
else as it does to see joke.
A fat man believes in the survival
of the latest, and always remembers
that the Roman crook, Hon. Cassius
Caius, had a lean and hungry look.
And being thin and generous. we hold
that the fat one is entitled to all the
he can get out of his con-
dition, whether he gets it from his
tory, science or his own imagination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
DAFFYDHS

If a bullet lodges in a plank would
you call it bulletin board?
NO man what strikes a woman
amt no gent)
If a mans walking-stick is heavy
how can he be expected to raise
Cain?'
(Please submit all questions of this
sort to Dave Leahy.)
If a pianist were forced to eat in a
garnet where would his key board?''
(Pass out little rag-time,- professor,
that classical music is getting monot-
onous.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13

Although Judge Ansel R. Clark of
Sterling goes to the Chicago conven-
ton as a delegate at large, instructed
to vote for the nomination of Colonel
Roosevelt, he is not much in sympa-
thy with the plans of the Colonel to
reyolutionize the system of govern
nnent in these United States. Judge
Clark would fine voters for not par
ticipating in primaries and elections
and insists that with a universal ex-
pressions from the voters our form of
government would be IDEAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13

Money in the sum of more than $16,-
100000 has been deposited in the pos
tai savings banks, the country over,
since their establishment. And during
the same period that these deposits
have been made there has been no
falling off in the deposits of the state
and national banks. In other words,
the postal savings banks are doing Just
what their friends said they would
they are bringing out the savings of
folk who have always been too timid to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
Bird Inspired Famous Hymn.

Charles Wesley, brother of John Wes-
ley. who founded the Methodist church,
wrote some 5000 hymns, Jesus, Lover OF
My Soul" was the most popular of any
he wrote. He got the idea for this one
day as he was sitting at his desk. when
a bird, pursued by a hawk, flew in at the
open window. The hawk, afraid to fol-
low, flew away, and Wesley, struck by
the incident, was at once inspired to
write song, applying what he had wit
messed to our spiritual Iife.-Kansas City
Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-13
Boston.

]. R. Burton, who was deposed as
Republican United States senator from
Kansas on proof of graft, proposes to
be a Democratic candidate this year for
the legislature from Saline county. All
things seem permissible in politics;
but in the prize ring fighter can only
attempt to come back by the same
route on which he lost.