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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
SAYS UNCLE CIV

It's a sad fool who expects TO
amount to anything in this world
without keeping the mechanism of
his body in good working order.
Good food is worth more in human
service than good conscience, and Il
breath of fresh air is Heavens keen
est, quickest inspiration.
The most inconsistent man in
Puckyhuddle was the one who fed his
their daily task, but starved himself in
order to save money. You can't coin
brain or Drawn into money unless it is
well fed any more than you can do a
days work with team that bankers
all day for their morning oats. Your
body and brains compose your capital
stock, and you can't do business if
they are impaired. They who struggle
along on the brink of physical ana
mental bankruptcy are simply fools
for the want of sense. They are try
ing to make bricks without straw, and
every day is a fight for the impossible.
Today's strain from oVerwork or slug
giShnesS from lack of recreation or
dullness from malnutrition is a deficit
in your bodily organization that multi
plies itself by geometrical progress
sion. 1t presently wipes out The
strength that is your sole resource,
and the doctor and druggist get what
you were too stingy to spend for suS-
teEance. Clean conscience and good
intel-~1cns. grit and industry have lit
tie chance against physical disorders.
Well-fed, efficiency, clean lungs and
unmuddled brain spell human service
nine times in ten, and the same is the
greatest righteousn ess.-( Copyright,
1912, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chica

LFrom the Chicago News.l
Freezing politeness is not restricted
to the iceman.
1t is easier to borrow trouble than
it is to pay debts.
A young NJ. d never tries TO cure
the infatuation of his sweetheart.
Every man makes mistakes. but the
weather man gets more of his in print.
In order to be happy woman
must get a strangle hold on her dis
position.
Ever notice how proud the average
man is of the things he is going 10
do?
Judging by the quality of the prod
uct, it is no wonder we get 80 much
free advice.
Many a man gets ratified when
young widow acts as If he was trying
to fiirt with her.
A Woman's nomeliness has reached
the limit when she can't make up to
look pretty in photograph.
The man Who is weighed in the
balance and found wanting nearly al
ways complains that the scales are
out Of order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
LEMONS.

Senator Curtis having called atten-
ton to the fact that two of the promi-
nent Kansas Bull Moosers, Henry AL
len and Arthur Capper. who are more
or less ardent tariff reductionists in
their newspapers. the Wichita Beacon
and the Topeka Daily Capital, favored
an increase in the duty on lemons. it
is interesting to recall the manner in
which the support of Kansas newspa-
per proprietors for this proposition was
solicited.
When the Payne-Aldrich tariff law
was under consideration in the senate,
a representative of the lemon growers
in California made a tour of the prin-
cipal newspaper Offices in Kansas, and
presume bly, throughout the entire west
ern section of the country. He was a
high officials in fruit growers organi-
cation that had been advertising its
Pre- ducts extensively in the newspapers
the country over.
He presented the case of the lemon
growers of California in a most con-
vircing manner from their standpoint.
1t was an infant industry. Because of
expensive labor and shipping charges
across the continent, the California
lemon growers found it impossible 20
compete with the lemons shipped into
this country from Sicily and other
lemon growing centers abroad. Lemon
culture in this country, especially in
its early stages was exceedingly expen-
sive. due to the high cost of suitable
land in California and its preparation
TO- lemon growing. A lemon orchard
in California represented an investment
of about $1,000 an acre. On this the
owners of the orchards were not aver
aging more than per cent return.
Some did a little better. But many
others went broke. Therefore. an in
crease in the duty on lemons was al
most necessity if the lemon industry
in the United States was to survive
This representative of the lemon
growers did not ask for active sup
port of the cause in the news and edi-
torial columns Of the newspapers. He
said he appreciated the fact that a
newspaper was likely to become IN
popular with it's clientele if it pub
licly urged anything that savored of an
increase in any of the tariff schedules.
But he thought that with perfect
propriety newspaper proprietors might
support privately matter of this sort
that it might be deemed injudicious
for them to support through the col |
umns of their newspapers. And he
that most effective support |
could be given to the increase in the !
duty on lemons, if the newspaper pro- |
prietors would telegraph to the sera- |
tors from their state, their personal |
views on this matter of so much i'm
portance to the lemon growers of Cal !
ifornia, but hardly of the same i'm
portance to the lemon consumers of |
the land.
From the statement made by Sera- |
tor Curtis it is apparent that two of
the prominent newspaper proprietors |
of Kansas, both of whom are now
prominent in the Bull Moose ranks, |
and both ardent tariff reformers
acted favorably on the suggestion of
the representative of the lemon grow
ers. Nor is it recalled that either of
them used the columns of their news |
papers to champion an increase in the |
duty on lemons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
FROM OTHER PENS

The MOST PRACTICAL" SCIENCE,
The meeting of the International
ASSOCIATION of Applied Chemistry AZ
washington directs attention to the
increasingly important part this
branch of science is playing in the
progress OF the world. In this con-
nectIon 1t is interesting to learn that
the United States, which until recent
ly has Jagged behind some other ma
lions in chemical research, is begin
nlng to atone for past Indifference.
During the last ten years the number
OF students pursuing advanced courses
OF study In chemistry has doubled
THIS year degrees in this course num-
perlng 492. But even this is a COM
paratlVely small number in view of the
enormous increase in the industrial
operations of the country, constantly
demanding trained men. It is a cues
ton whether ambitious, capable young
fellows sufficiently realize the oppo1-
tun1tfeS afforded by the profession OF
advanced chemistry and the many
problems the solution of which will
bring wealth and fame to the SUCCESS
ful. No small part of Germany's in
dustrial progress has been due to the
discoveries of her men of science.
which have rendered manufacturing
processes more economical and eff
Gent. Perhaps Germany has lent
more announcement to research work
OF this character. But there are signs
that her supremacy in that regard is
TO be challenged as our young men
appreciate the advantages to be de-
rived from the pursuit of what has
been termed the most practical OF
scienceS.-Philadelp Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.


IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
Even the most truthful OF us will lie
abed.
One way to treat a man like a lord is
to lend him money.
Some people are almost as unlucky as
statue of Venus.
The perfumery manufacturer should be
man of good scents.
One of the severest tests or optimism
is boil on the neck.
-Jon't burn your bridges behind you un-
less you have them insured.
To get a good storm effect in a play
the stage hands have to work like thu1-
der.
There is nothing that makes a man feel
so small as to realize that he has been
taken IN.
The people who are weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting always complain
that the scales are out of order.
Blobbs-''The average woman does cot
use her head" Slobbs-"Oh, yes she does.
She uses il to display her hats
In sizing up a small boy at meal time
you are forced to the conclusion that he
must be much larger than he looks from
the outside.
Mrs. Muggins-''My husband is tho
most unreasonable man" Mrs. Buggins-
hat has he done now2" Mrs. Buggihs
- Well, I've been at him for six months
TO buy some new furniture for the draw
ing room, and what do you think? lie
told me last night ne had just paid thou
sands of dollars for old seat on the
Stock Exchange"
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land is taken up That is true if
fencing, and owning. and -cut-and COW
ering is taking up But any farmer
knows that there is room for twice,
three times, as many people on the
farms as are there now. 1 heard Mr..
John w. Bookwalter of Springfield
and the rest of the world read a paper
on this subject last winter. He called
the attention of his hearers to the
rush of people to the cities as a great
danger to the world-to civilization.
HE seemed to miss the effect he
himself has had on this matter of the
rush of people to the cities. Mr..
Bookwa1ter possesses from. $4,000 to
10000 acres of farm land. On this
immense domain there live probably
from a thousand to fifteen hundred
people. This is in Nebraska. In Ne
braska, too, lives Arnold Martin, who
on twenty-one acres makes money,
besides supporting his family. If the
land owned by Mr.. Bookwalter were
owned by men who work 1t, there
would be living on it three thousand
ordinary Nebraska farm folk, instead
of fifteen hundred people II it were
owned by men like Arnold Martin,
there would be room for three thou
sand five hundred families. or say a
population of fifteen thousand people
on this same estate, which now sup
ports fifteen hundred people on one
half the crops-and Mr.. Bookwalter
on the other half!
What would be the effect on the
cost of living if every tenant farmer
in these United States were all at
once changed into an owner of his
farm? Would it not change most of
them into better farmers? 1t surely
would. They would manure more
heavily establish better rotations, buy
fertilizers, cease skinning the land,
begin trying to make the place ade-
quate to the support not only of the
old folks, but of the children"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
EVENING CHIT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Do YOU believe in Woman Suffrage? N
I do not think could tell you how
MANY times that question has been put to
me by my letter friends. Hitherto 1 have
not made any response to 1t because l
was afraid that the editors might think |
was trying to usurp their functions IN
thus taking sides on a political question.
I am only woman, you know, ana am
not supposed to have opinions on sucn
the matter over in my mind and come 10
the conclusion that there is no reason why
anyone should think my opinion has any
thing to do with the policy OF the paper,
and hence no reason for any editor, no
matter how differently he feels, to object
to this expression of my humble opinion.
So here goes with my answer
With all my heart I believe in woman
suffrage, not only as thing that ought to
be but also as a thing that soon will be.
Now some people say that they want
woman suffrage because they know that
women will improve conditions. 1 do not
1 hope they will. and 1 feel sure they will
see that a probab BILE improvement needs to
be proven. When, in the history of the
world, any class of men have tried to get
the vote, it has not said that it would
govern the country better. 1t has simply
claimed that it had an inalienable right to
share in the government and has pro
sentation. And that's just what the
women of today are fighting against
The grounds on which I ask for woman
suffrage are simply those of abstract JUS
tic.
Now please do not tell me that woman
is represented by her husband or father.
Why should she be content with that any
more than a grown man would be conten
to be represented by his father or ms
brother. Criminals, paupers, feeble MIND
ed and women are refused the right 10
vote. I can see good reason for refusing
the vote to the first three classes, but
none for denying it to an intelligent
woman.
Some of the antf-suffragists who do not
quite care to claim that women are an in
ferior race, put it this way-''YeS, admit
that men and women are equal, but they
are different" Surely my friends
freely admit that. But 1 cannot, for my
fects the matter of voting, any more than
it affects woman's ability to learn to read,
for instance. Though, come to think of 1T,
not so very long ago there were people
who argued that a woman's brain was SC
peculiarly constructed that it WASH t
even capable of that.
The only possible argument against
woman suffrage that can see is that IL
never has been and therefore never should
be. Once upon time there was min
lister who preached against woman wear
ing gay coIors. Said this wise person, IF
the Lord had meant you to wear pink and
blue and crimson He would have made
pink and blue and crimson sheep
When I hear anyone arguing, that II 1t
were best that women should vote they
would have always voted, and that be-
cause they don't vote now, they never
should, think of that minister
We laugh at such things as that TO-DAY
Tomorrow my friend-and not such a dis
tant tomorrow either-youu be wondering
why anyone ever thought the question
sex had anything to do with the right to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11

hunky had taken from her as she came
out from the arena
I beg your pardon"
The remark was plainly an effort to
/ thoughts, and. startled, she glanced
up and into the face of the handsome
young ringmaster.
| 1t was puzzled blue eyes into which
Betty found herself gazing; wondering
eyes blended with a great deal of adj
miration and some curiosity.
You are Miss Braden, are you not %
Betty flushed. She had not been silly
enough to imagine that she could keep
her identity a secret, but how did this
circus man know her?"
81 am she agreed stiff1y, "and-and
1 wish to go home" Pride broke pa
| theticalIy with the visit of the last
words.
And 1 am here to take you home. I
| thought at first, Miss Braden, that you
had originated your novel act to help
US out, and then it gradually came 10
me that your horse was performing
against your will. He must have been
an old-time circus horse"
Betty was almost on the verge Of
miserably
I will ride with you for distance.
You seem to be utterly done up"
betty raised protesting eyes.
Sut you will be needed here?''
y, l am at liberty now. I was only
OH IN the turn preceding yours
hat a shamei" thought Betty, as
tae Two rode safely through the maze
OF tents and out onto the broad. road
tbeaddin n back into the country. that a
should waste his time with a circus."
Bettys opinion of circuses was not
very hlgh. Why" she meditated, "lle
mas as much culture and refinement
as any OF the young men of our set
and he is better looking" Flushing.
she shifted from this dangerous trend
of thought.
Il believe I can continue alone,
And thank you very much for your
kind assistance"
But may I not ride as far as your
homer
Il think not. We have never met
that is, in the way that the ethics de-
mand. you know, and
But we will, I shall have my sis
ter introduce me right away"
Betty stared.
Your sister? Really"
Why, yes. Laura Hedgeton. your
friend, is my sister, and"
Laura Hedgeton ?''
Certainly"
But how comes 1t that you are
travelling with that circus %
''Me-traveling with circus.
Why Suddenly a look of compre-
hension made narrow the eyes of the
youth.
my dear, Miss Rraden." he pro-
tested. you surely didn't think that
1 was an employee of the circus!"
But why shouldn't I think so?'
Listen. The show this afternoon
was given for the benefit of the Bar
leyville hospital and a number of
US who live there took active part.
Strange that you didn't hear of it be-
fore. We rented the whole aggrega-
ton outright. And now may we rele-
gate the conventions for once. and
may I ride home with you?"
Betty nodded mute assent
Copyrighted, 1912, by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
JAYHAWKER JOTS

After his barn was struck by light
ming and burned last week, E. j. Ientz
had rods put on his house, reports the
Whiting Journal.
The only first-class feature about
tent show that played in Sylvan Grove
recently, according to the Sylvan Grove
News, was the price of admission.
Before the fall. Adam and Eve had
To sweat glands, insists the Norton
Chamion. They had nothing to sweat
over. Labor and perspiration are twins
born of sin.
They had some peculiar thunder IN
Atchison county recently. The Musco
tab Record reports: That one crash of
thunder Monday morning put 60 phones
out of order.
Editor Smith of the Marshall Coun-
ty News calls attention to the fact
that although the duck season opened
September 1st, it IS not proper to
shoot lame political ducks.
A personal mention in the Rocks
horse proudly struts around in a good
pair of overalls on it's front legs. HIS
tail is good for the flies in the rear.
A political observation from Mrs.
Tom Thompson of the Howard Cour-
ant: One of the tenets of the Bull
Moosers as exemplified at the Party
Council so-called, 'tother day might
read: All Things are Lawful if Expe-
dent.
man walked into a wamego
clothing store the other day for the
purpose of buying a Stetson hat, re-
lates the Wamego Times. You can
tell what he had on his mind when
he asked the clerk to see some of those
Smith & Wesson" hats.
''FIow times do change" remarked an
s'old boy to the reporter of the Os
kaloosa Times, as he sat watching a
bunch of youngsters playing niger
BABY over in the court yard. why,
IT seems only yesterday that we boys
were playing too. But we didn't play
that kind of a game. Run, sheep, rum
was our favorite. And many is the timc
we got the seat of our pants warmed
for disturbing the slumbers of some
early to bed believer. Along about
dusk the boys began to gather around
the old barn, and we'd draw strawS
to see who was it Then one of US
would take the stick and throw it as
far as we could, at the same time yellin'
at the top of our voice, Run. sheep.
rum and the game was on Another
game we played was shiny and
tell you that was a game. Many Is
the time I've gone home with pair
of sore shins because failed to Skinny
on my own side Nowadays you'll
more than likely find boys of that age
a pIayin' drop the handkerchief or at
tendin' the 'picter' show, instead of
playin' them healthy appetite maxim
games. AS said before, How times do
change -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
GLOBE SIGHTS
RY THE ATCHISOfE GLOBE

Some men who enter politics often lose
by winning.
Hand holding is no treat to a manicure
artistic.
Every man is a free born citizen until
he reaches home
Laudable efforts rarely get past first
base without a helper.
The season approaches when some will
contend pawpaws are edible.
You may have observed that most of the
Protests don't get anything.
Taking something for it is less salts
factory than taking care to prevent it.
Some people make good; others are
made good by friendly reporters.
until he discovers he is being worked.
What has become of the o1d-fashioneu
novel hero who proposed in the conserva-
tory?
Whoever has the golf championship is
entirely welcome so far as we are con-
cerned.
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TRIUMPHALIS.

Soul, art thou sad again,
With the old sadness?
Thou shalt be glad again
With a new gladness,
When April sun and rain
Mount to the teeming brain.
With the earth madness.
When from the mold again.
Spurning disaster,
Spring shoots unfold again.
Follow thou faster
Out of the drear domain
OF dark, defeat, and pain,
Praising the Master.
Light for the guide again.
Ample and splendid;
Love at thy side again,
All doubling ended.
(Ah, by the dragon slain,
For nothing small or vain
Michael contendedD
Thou shalt take heart again,
No more despairing;
Play thy great part again,
Loving and caring.
Hark, how the gold refrain
Runs through the iron strain,
Splendidly daring!
Thou shalt grow strong again,
Confident, tender
Battle with wrong again,
Be truths defender
Of the immortal train
Born to attempt, attain,
Never surrender!
Bliss Carman, in the Atlantic Monthly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11

crop on September indicates a yisstd
of about S,00O,6OO,OO0 bushels. A big
wheat crop has just about been her-
vested. Hay, oats. potatoes and all
other crops, including that veritable
mint which travels under the name of
alfalfa, are of record breaking proper
tions And yet there are some of the
wise pessimists who insist that ques-
tionable efforts are being made in 9th
er quarters nowadays to stimulate a
prosperity for the immediate future
that will be built on false foundations.
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PLENTY OF FARM LAND.

Herbert Quick, editor of Farm and
Fireside, writes an interesting article
in the current issue of his periodical
on the causes that are back of the
high cost of living. Following is an
extract:
What we want to know is why
there are not more people on the
farms. I have just read in a magazine
the explanation-they are all stirred
up about it-that all the available
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few men are as cheerful as they try
to make others think.
X
Nor do you have to labor hard to
convince a man that he's smart.
y
Neither does it take much effort
to stick to a farm that is muddy.
= 4
Most of the really wise men keep
out of politics. That may explain its
deficiencies.
A dyed mustache is seldom success
full in fooling any one except the man
who wears it.
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ON TIE SPUR
OF THE AOMENT

Y K MOuITON.

The Pessimist.
There's been a whole lot written or tne
value of a smile,
But still the Teller that goes round
a-smilin' all the while
And don't do nothin' else but smile, no
matter what is said,
Don't seem III this worlds goods to get
so very fur ahead.
You'll hear this idee harped on by the
optimistic crowd,
There is a silver linin' bright to every goi
ding cloud,
But when the cloud dissolves IN AIR an
disappears from view,
The silver linin' gen ally dissolves in thin
air, too.
The darkest hour comes just before the
dawn they love to say,
Although your own peruckler dawn Is
twenty years away.
1t never helps the Teller much thatf
workin' in the ditch
To hear that some day, possibly, perhaps
he may be rich.
They say that all things surely come unto
the man who waits,
But still there amt a mite OF nope Tor
him who hesitates
The Teller who don't wait, but goes Iignt
after things, you know,
He is the one who rings the bell anc
grabs off all the dough.
The optimists and pessimists can argue
pro and con
And thrash out all the questions that they
are debatin' on.
But after all is said and done, L think that
you will find
That misery or happiness is just state
of mind.
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DAFFYDHS
eY U. NOALL.

If they gave a dance in the barn
yard would the turkey trot?
(Get me the hammer. dear! There's
a fly on babys head.)
Because a man. is born in Siberia
is that why he goes around a Rus
sian?
Get the guiIlotine ready. Here's the
guy that put the string in string
beans.)
Should girl Irritation?
(Neither does the boob that shakes
the tree always get the apples)
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Some of the more enthusiastic of
the Rooseveltians are analyzing the
results in the recent Vermont state
election where the Bull Moose guber-
Material candidate finished poor
third to the Democrats, as being con-
elusive evidence that Colonel Roose-
welt will carry Vermont at the national
election in November. Many of the
serious pretensions of the Bull Noes
ers are so ridiculous that they will
probably be preserved for posterity in
Joke books.