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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

In short, if youth is not quite right in
It's opinions there is a strong probability
that age is not much more so.'-Steven-
We are often reminded of the Difference
which young people owe to their elders
we seldom hear anything about the court
esq which old people should show to their
youngers; and yet 1 think that such an
obligation certainly exists, and that older
people often make the mistake of ienor-
ing it.
It is both irritating and amusing to hear
certain elderly lady fatty contradict
her niece on subjects which the latter has
been studying for the last ten years
Doubtless there are many things about
which the older women does know best
but in regard to this matter she has abb
solutely no claim to superior knowledge
except I've lived good deal longer than
you have, my dear" Consequently she
makes herself both obnoxious and ridicu-
lous by her assumptions of superiority.
Wisdom In youth deserves respect just as
much as wisdom in old age, and whoever
fails to give it fails in propriety, even if
he is hundred years old.
Again, young folks have a right to their
not cease to be impertinent when an older
persons asks it. A young woman tells ME
that elderly cousin considers that her
eighty years give her the right to say
anything she wishes. and that she often
asks such questions as. How much board
do you pay your father?" How much
did your sisters wedding cost?" gond
many of US know people like this who
presume on their years to be rude and in
quisitive, and needless to say, we do not
love them for it.
One more suggestion for the older folks.
A short time ago I urged the young peo-
pie to call on their lonely old friends
more often. A letter-friend writes "I
wish you would also tell these lonely old
people that the young folks will be more
anxious to visit them if they meet their
visitors with some greeting like. I am Sd
glad to see you. Young folks have
many interests that it is very good of you
to spare time for US lonely old people, in
Of xx-ffH
have not been to see me for long time
Well, you will be old yourself some time
and then you'll know what it is to be
lonely
It is an eternal law of the universe that
he who wants to find courtesy and
tholghtfulness and kindness in others
must let others find these qualities
him, and old as well as young are subject
tn this law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
SAYS UNCLE CAV

Sheer as you will, at the small
bore, single-barreled, one-ideaed man,
but the world is his debtor, just the
same. If you will analyze the list of
successful men you know you will
find in it an astonishingly large num-
Der who are built upon the narrow
gauge plan. Success is not the ex-
elusive property of the versatile,
broad-minded man, and history
would have to be written all over
again if we were to exclude from it's
pages the multitude of men of linn
tied mentality who, being built upon
the gimlet plan, have bored their
way into the heart of things and left
ineradicable traces of their work as
a heritage for the ages.
The single barreled man is a spe-
cialist. He finds his main chance
and hangs on. Many a poet has been
fool on ali other subjects; many
a painter the veriest Ounce when de-
prived of his pigments and brushes;
many a general a hopeless incompe-
tent in all other matters, and there
have been epoch-making inventors
who have lacked the wit of school
boys upon ordinary subjects. When
his colleagues came to examine the
brain of one of the worlds greatest
diagnosticians the other day, they
found it smaller than that of the or
binary child, and discovered that the
greater part of it had about the same
development as that of an imbeci1e.
Yet it was the brain of great man
a small-bore, single barreled, one
ideaed man, whose persistent pursuit
of his specially had saved thousands
of human lives-and to that extent
had made the world better.
Your highly-gifted, big-brained
man is prey to one great weakness
he scatters. Usually, we work more
or less at all things that we like; we
like all things that we are fitted to
work at. And it is the tendency of
the gifted man to fit from task to
task, doing nothing exceptionally
we'll, but many things passably. The
life of such a man is never dull, but
it lacks the one essential that would
have made it vital to the race-su-
perior excellence in its work. On the
other hand, the man of limited men,
tally, being enamored of his one tai
ent, puts it to the best possible use,
masters his work, bores in. if you
please, and leaves not a dozen indif-
ferently done tasks, but one bit of
work that is a masterpiece.
Don't scatter. If you will, be a
dilettante in a dozen things, but be
an expert in one. Leave the world
when you go one bit of art or arti-
sanship that is stamped with your
heart and your soul and made alive,
if not eternal. For this is another
and a particularly happy definition of
success--(Copyright. 1912, by w. E.
TO- \
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
GLOBE SIGHTS
nv THE ATCEI1SOE GLOBE.

Modesty doesn't often hold man back
when he sees a good chance.
Any man who writes a letter ne wants
burned, should burn 1t himself
ONLY a few girls are handsome enough
to look all right in sweater.
If everyone had to do his own f1Shtlns
this world would be more peaceful
A good hearted man never accumu-
lates enough money to become puonC
benefactor.
Love may be blind, but you are safe In
betting that jealousy isn't, and the Two
often travel in pairs
More people regard contributions to the
campaign fund as an investment than as
a donation.
Members of a Mothers club should
have something more than a canary plro
to take care of at home.
Shortly after commencement the grad
uate finds out that the scale of wages
for High Ideals is rather low.
Strong as we are for optimism, there is
frequently more of it at a wedding thai
the occasion deserves.
Link Preston evidently believes in the
women first policy His wife was out
spading their garden this morning.
After the election we will Jail the man
who has been naming the new dances and
peace and tranquility will again reign.
No doubt the man who carries his own
Quill toothpicks, instead of using the Iun1-
Der yard variety, feels rather superior
about it.
This is to inform the women that the
men who dies for them are not the only
heroes: some who live for the same pur-
pose also belong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News.l
slight puff will send feather Drained
man up in the air
Many a woman is moved to tears when
it isn't her move.
The man who speaks from experience
leaves lot of things unsaid.
Most of us try to forget the mean
things we know about ourselves
He is a poor friend who will not stand
by you until your last dollar is gone.
But the man who fails isn't necessarily
a failure; perhaps he tried the wrong
thing.
And If a baseball player has a wife she
has a right to expect him to make a
home run occasionally.
The average man is seldom willing to
compromise until he discovers that he is
putting up losing fight.
The more a woman loves her husband
the more she doesn't want him hanging
around when a bunch of women meet at
the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

if factions of both branches of con-
gress, there probably wouldn't have
been any kind of tariff revision posi-
BILE during the past three years. Ana
the inefficient result tells its own story.
Instead of adopting the initiative ana
the referendum to bring about leg1sia-
tive reforms that the people may de-
sire, it might be a much better plan
to rearrange the legislatures by COM
bining both their branches into one
body. Then all the members OF the
legislature would be elected for terms
of the same length. A single-booleo
legislature would surely be responsible
to the will of the people. Under pres
ent conditions in most states, the terms
as those of the members of the lower
house. Following an election when
members to be tn branches of the leg
islature are chosen, it is often the
case that these branches work -togeth-
err pretty well. But when there is an
old senate and new house, they are
generally at logerheads- The member
ship of the house represents the last
political expression of the people. But
the efforts of such a house in the leg
islative line are generally blocked by
the senate. The result is no legislation
on important matters unless it is OF
the compromise variety. And generally
such legislation is not worth the paper
on which it is printed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
A SATURDAY SERMON.
Labor not to be rich. Proverbs YIN =.

If more men and women were dis
posed to follow this advice that was
given voice to by Solomon, 1t goes
without saving, almost, that they would
get along much better in this world
as would countless others, directly OF
indirectly affected by their chase Tor
gold; their lives would be fuller and
happier That, after all, is the chle1
goal toward which mankind has ever
struggled. But too large portion Of
it is wrongly obsessed with the idea
that the largest of happiness is only
to be brought about through the pos
session of riches. How far they are
from the truth Yet they will work
and slave, and plan and scheme to
increase their supply of worldly pos
sessions. And if they are successful IN
the end, it's generally the case that
their piles of gold avail them nothing.
Too. frequently. also, their well-nigh
rapacious desire for money and more of
it. blunt the finer sensibilities with
which they were once endowed. They
become not over-scrupulous as to how
they attain the means for which
they are striving. Thus, too, they
often do grave injustice to others.
They evade the laws of man. They
ignore the laws of God. They seem TO
think of nothing but the qualification of
their own selfishness. And while they
may be able to 81 round themselves
with all the material comforts of life,
they don't get much real enjoyment out
of them. They are uneasy for some
thing else. Their passions are of the
unappeasable sort. Nor is it unusual
for them to get into such a condition
of mind and body that they actually
curse their wealth, and would gladly
exchange places with those in the hum
blest walks of life. This thought is
forcefully expressed in the lines of
one of John Gays fables, which run:
Who hath not heard the rich complain
OF surfeits, and corporal pain?
He, barr'd from every use of wealth,
Envies the ploughman's strength and
health.
Were people generally to devote a
portion of the energy they expend in
the hunt for riches to the pursuit of
health; to the pursuit of learning; TO
getting in touch with the marvels CT
nature; to making the acquaintance of
the great men and women of the world
as their lives and labors are detailed
in the romances of history; to doing n
thousand and one things which are
more worth while, there wouldn't be
nearly so many vexed problems for
society in general to wrestle with and
solve. It's the keen, the almost vicious
strife for the Almighty Dollar that is
turning civilized humanity into such a
restless, dissatisfied aggregation of peo-
pie. The sooner they wake up to that
fact, the sooner they realize that there
are other things in life besides riches |
and the luxuries that riches can buy, |
the better it will be for all concerned. |
Money is a fine thing to have More |
than enough of it in many instances is
worse than not enough. Surely all are
familiar with what the gifted Paul |
wrote in his first letter to Timothy: I
For the love of money is the root Of |
all evil; which while some coveted |
after, they have erred from the faith, |
and pierced themselves through with
many Sorrows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
AYHAWKER JOT.S

Nor would it be fair to assume that
Miss Belle Cool, of Fredonia, is neces-
sarily that way.
AS the Minneapolis Better Way ex-
plains: 1t isn't ideal to be idle, nor
is it idle to try to be ideal.
Every girl should remember, advises
the Village Deacon of the Osborne
Farmer, that mans ability to two
step is no criterion of his ability to
keep the flour barrel filed and the
magazine of the baseburner loaded.
Breaking forth into song the Edmond
New Leaf chants:
Little drops of water,
Falling on the wheat,
Makes mighty difference
In what we'll have to eat.
Railroad men. reports the Osborne
Farmer say the wine made by the
Italian track laborers employed by the
Missouri Pacific gives out a pleasing
chinchbug odor and will make an
American climb a creased pole. A pc
culiar thing about the wine is that
it does not affect a person until sew
eraI hours after taken.
First aid from the Atchison Globe
to Ambitious Office Boys who nope TO
become Members Of the Firm: Try
to impress the boss with the fact that
than he does. He has only been work.
ing at it a quarter of a century, ana
probably doesn't learn very fast; :.
Remember time is precious, and you
can prove you are generous by vast
ing a good deal of it. Genus is
following that idea you are sure to be
taken for one or the other; one must
take some chances By neglect
ing the work you are supposed to do,
and tackling something bigger you
NAV learn something, including the
way out. Many good men smoke
but they didn't depend on
their efforts in that line for start.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
ONLY DREAMING.

Golden hair and laughing eyes,
Wealth OF beauty which men prize,
Ruby lips and form divine,
No, they never can be mine,
am only dreaming, dreaming,
With the golden moonlight streaming
Through my study door.
Just boy seem to be,
Happy as a lark and free,
Romping through the wooded dell
With the one 1 love so well,
But I'm only dreaming, dreaming,
With the golden moonlight cleaning
Through my study door.
Why. oh. why, must I awake,
And my pleasant dreams forSake,
Wake and find denied to me-
All but grave reality?
Know I'm only dreaming, dreaming,
With the golden moonlight beaming.
Through my study door.
Charles L. H. Wagner, in the Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
Woman is a creature of mood; general
ly the imperative mood.
If love-is really a disease it is the most
contagious one on record.
Conscience is still, small voice that
tells us when we are found out.
Music hath charms, but it isn't the song
birds that make the best pot-pies.
When a girl throws a fellow over ne
realizes that youth must have its fling.
No Maude, dear; we wouldn't advise
you to go to a fire sale for your blazer.
1t is folly to suppose that all things
come to those who wait for something TO
turn up.
That the course of love doesn't run
smooth is demonstrated by the fact that
it's a rocky road to Reno.
Every man has his price," quoted the
Wise Guy. yes, and it's generally about
twice what he's WORTH" added the sim
pie Mug.
The Living Skeleton-"I suffer terribly
from insomnia" The Indian Rubber
Man-"That so? generally sleep 10 hours
at a stretch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most of the secrets that are told are
not worth telling, anyhow.
X X X
If living's cost were not so high
there'd be plenty of other things for
people to worry about.
X X
Further than that, most folk ought
to feel that mere living is we'll worth
whatever it may cost.
y
This much is also certain. Human
beings are largely responsible for most
of the distress in the world.
X x 4
Nor does it necessarily follow that an
expert on the rules of any game can
play & well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

One or two of the sensational news
papers Of the country have been throw
ing triple fits over the acquisition Of
land in Mexico by Japan or some of
her representative citizens. In spec
ial message to congress President Taft
declares emphatically that there is ne
evidence that Japan has acquired or
had tried to acquire any land at Mag
dalena bay. Some newspapers, as well
as most of the newspaper readers, do
a whole lot Of unnecessary worrying
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

Differences arising in the press
rooms of the Chicago newspapers con-
Quoted by William R. Hearst, the
self-avowed friend of the people and
champion extraordinary of labor, are
responsible for a pressmen's strike on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

President Taft's action in vetoing
the original constitution adopted by
the people of Arizona, evidently did
not put him in bad with the Republi-
cans in that locality. They have in
structed their delegates to the Chicago
convention to vote for his re-nomina-
ton. And by the way: What of that
claim of Colonel Roosevelt's friends
that he would get all the delegates
from every state west of the Missis-
sippi with the exception of Utah and
Arkansas?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.J

TFrom the New York Press.J
You can tell what a man isn't by the
way he tells you he is
You can never be sure of sticking to
your faith unless you are tied up to 1t so
that you can't get away from 1t.
Every wife is martyr, and everybody
in the world knows it but her husband.
woman is awfulIy stupid to know
nothing at all about the value of money
and yet be able to make it do ten times
what her husband can.
There's hardly anything more expensive
than paying to go through courses that
teach you how to do things with scientific
cheapneSs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
KANSAS COMAENT
CORN is STILL KING.


Eastern bankers keep a close watch
upon the crop conditions because they
realize that railway earnings and the
production of all kinds of food are in
Volved- They study the stock market
and are familiar with foreign money
markets. They know the daily value of
bonds and keep posted on steel dry
goods and other staples. But the most
vital force of the situation is the crop
outlook. The damage to winter whsat
in some sections was an unwelcome
but not serious occurrence. There IS
ample time to replant with other crops.
and grain that was only partially in
jured has a good chance for recovery.
OF course, a big wheat crop would Ga
highly beneficial the world over as an
important aid to lowering the cost of
food. This country, however is more
interested in corn than in any other
crop. The outlook in this respect g
encouraging for larger acreage. and
soil conditions, it is worth remember
ing, are in many respects ideal. The
together too early to form any positive
opinions about crops. The planting or
cotton has been much delayed, so that
1t is premature to believe that there
viii be any important decrease in acre
age. Considering that cotton yielded
handsome profits to the South last year
in spite of lower prices, it is hardly to
be supposed that there will be anv i'm
portant shrinkage in acreage. Every
grower would like to see a cut of 10 TO
20 per cent, but as usual each one will
expect his neighbor to curtail so that
ne may plant a little more. After all
mas been said, temperature and rainfall
are more important elements in the FIN
al yield than any ordinary fluctuations
In acreage.-Wichita Beacon.
INHERITANCE TAX LAW FAULTY.
One of the first duties of the next
Kansas legislature is to amend the in
heritance tax law so that it will not
penalize the widow of a man who hap
pens to leave her enough to live on,
for her husbands death. The present
law levies a tax on every estate of
$4,000 or more. In thousands of cases
that sum and twice that sum is in
sufficient to support the family, and il
is a crime for the state to take d
portion of it. 1t would be better to
make up the tax on these small estates
by assessing a heavier inheritance tax
against large estates.-Fort Scott Tri-
bune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

In view of the report of Mr.. Coburn,
secretary of the Kansas department of
agriculture, on the excellent condi-
ton of the wheat crop in this state,
the recent editorial comment here and
there in Kansas that this crop was
going to be pretty much of a failure
was premature, if nothing worse. Can
1t be that some of the professional
"crop killers have enlisted the aid
of some Kansas newspapers to assist
the spectators in the manipulation of
the wheat markets?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

Jack johnson is much peeved because
Uncle Sam will not compromise in the
settlement OF the smuggling case
against him. Presumably Jack is not
so foolish as to have an ambition to
be king of the United States. But he
would like to go somewhat further and
be able to do just as he pleases. He
would like to be excepted from the
provisions of all the laws of the nation
and its several states. as well as sun
dry and divers municipal regulations
concerning the operation of automo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

Members of Iowa's special tax COM
mission are here investigating the
Kansas plan of taxation. OF course,
they are concerned only with the sys-
tenn. That's a good thing. They GER
tainly could not get any pointers here
under present conditions on how to
keep taxes down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

Few of the newspapers and other
publications in this section of the
country will be affected by the Barn
hardt postoff1ce bill which will COM
pei them, if it becomes a law, to print
the names of their managing editors
and owners. Most of the newspapers in
this neck Of the woods already do that,
or, at least. they print the names of
their proprietors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

Nor should the fact be lost sight
of that the local gas supply is now
adequate for all purposes. Just
suppose, Madam Housewife that you
had to keep a coal or wood fire going
in the kitchen most of the time for
the purpose of cooking the three
squares per diem. Natural gas is
a wonderful fuel-when there is any.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

J. Bruce Ismay has sailed for home.
No one will doubt his statement that
he is tired and wants a rest. But
he'll never be able to find one. A man
with such a terrible load as he has on
his mind will be troubled until he
takes the journey from whence no
traveller returns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

Would you say a blind man in good
health looked out of sight?
(Maggiei! Take that COW out of the
hammock.)
If q shrub is a bush is geometry?
CWell, 1 heard differently
If lady falls on a slippery pavement
will the street cleaner?
(How are you fixed for the symmetry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

Not so long ago the coolest days on
record for Kansas were on the car
pet. Now the warmest days on rec
ord for this season of the year are
putting in an appearance. Kansas
weather is as changeable and uncer-
tain as the chameleon.