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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
CHAT
AZ RurH

Diamonds. people say, are a good
investment instead of a luxury pe-
cause they are increasing in Value'
With his sentiment h diamond puy-
e. who knows he is being unduly e1-
trayagant justifies himself. But now
many other things that are far better
Investments tina diamonds the same
person would feel he could not aItoro:
1 am thinking just now especially OF
trees
house would feel that they could invest
saw fifty dollars in buying trees to put
around it? And yet, when these same
Young folks become a the Ting
he gave her probably cost two or thres
times that sum-. And can the
possiblv be as good an investment as
the trees?
outside my study window a beautitul
white birch has been putting on It's
spring garments. Faint, rrotny sus-
gestions of green have been
developing into trailing, voluminous
Uest,,res. Every fair. May morning the
sight of the sunlight striking down
through the branches, and the exqui
site male green of the topmost boughs
fluttering against the blue sky mas
given me moments of pleas
ure. The tree is not mine. 1t belongs
to my neighbor.
RI1t that is one of the wonderful
things about this kind of an invest
ment-it blesses and enriches many
besides the possessor. My ne1gnpor is
very proud of this tree. 1t cost MIN
about three dollars when he bought IL
as a sapling twenty-six years ago, anu
he says it is the best investment ne
ever made.
Two friends of mine re planning to
own a house. They are going to Dor
row most of the money to build 1t, ana
naturally they are trying to be as eco
-~--sA11 IN khAfr noffT0 ofnH
And yet they have reckoned fifty dol
lars for trees. Some of this money will
be spent for fruit trees, but some of 1t
will go to buy trees whose only fruit
is beauty. 1 do not think they will ever
regret this investment.
Another family who has lived about
fifteen years in their present home,
when they first bought the place, were
to plant a few trees. But it
takes so long for trees to. grow" they
protested, and who knows where we
be ten years from now?" Had
contingency of benefiting someone
else by their expenditure, they would
a much more attractive home to-
day.
Not only are trees a splendid invest
ment from the point of view of the
pleasure they give, but also from the
value they d to the property. On a
street one house is universally
regarded as the aristocrat. I stopped
the other day to study its architecture
and found that after all it was no
larger, no more elaborate nor expen-
sive than two or three other houses on
the street. It's distinction plainly comes
from the fact that it is set well back
from the street, and screened by two or
three magnificent trees, which attract
every eye, and give an appearance of
FRESHNESS to the place.
Have you planted any trees this
If you haven't surely you are going
to. What if you do live in a rented
house, will you not be game enough to
risk a few dollars, when the only
chance you a is that you may give
to someone else instead OF
voTrseIf2 !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
HUNOR or III II

81 understand your boy. Josh. ia ~
perimenting on the lines Of perpetual mo-
ton" Yes" replied Farmer Corntossei.
And l feel some Encouraged about It. I
Josh was goin' to take in was perpetuai
rest."-Washington Star.
I'm going to tell you a great secret -
"Yes?" And I wouldn't have YOU tell
anybody 1 told you for all the world"
You can trust me. / never told a secret
I never remember who told me, nor what
it was-"5C1eveland Plain Dealer.
Observation-Disclosures here! I'm
not going to pay any such rates as Won
charge. Do you think I'm a fooI7 Cab
man (apologetically)-What else could I
think, sir, when you took a cab Instead
of a street car?-Foster. in New York
Weekly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
BUSINESS BETTER IN THE WEST.

AS has been the case during the
past year or two of more or less gen.
eral business depression throughout
the country, conditions are better in
the business world in the west than
they are in the east. Attention is
called to this fact in his weekly cur
rent financial review by Henry CIews,
the New York banker. On this point
he says:
Business conditions in the west are
somewhat more encouraging than is
the case east of the Alleghanies.
Trade at most interior cities is pro-
ceeding satisfactorily; is large in
volume, and promises to be well sus-
tanned This statement is borne out
by clearing house returns, which last
week showed an increase of over 10
cent at leading cities. the largest
gains being at Chicago and st. Louis,
where the percentage of increase was
10 n Is per cent, respectively. At
New York bank clearings are only
about z to s per cent over last year,
while in the New England cities the
increases are running from Is to rs
per cent ahead of a year ago.. Rail-
road earnings furnish further confir-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
SAYS UNCLE CAV

There are a good many of us who
might get an idea worth ~cultivating
by observing the good. example of
Thomas A. Edison, who, when his
dollar watch no longer keeps good,
puts it on the ~sanvil, smashes it
with a hammer and throws it into the
junk heap for the consideration of
men whose minutes are less valuable
than his own. His purpose is to get
rid of hat watch-to put it forever
out of his thoughts and eternally be-
yond the possibility of annoying him.
Most of us would be better off if
we kept an anvil and a two pound
hammer handy. Dur yes r ever
lastingly cluttered up with things
hat are of no further use to us. but
which, for all that, are constantly
more probably devoted to some-
hin else. There is as much adj
vantage in knowing what to keep, but
most of US fail on the latter count.
There are thousands of potential E6i-
sons among US who are always fool
ing away their time tinkering with
dollar watches when they might be
making Photographs, telephones, au-
tomobiles, batteries, etc.
We are always tripping over the
dead and useless ends of yesterday.
We keep and carry too much junk.
We have not earned the beauties OF
final disposition. We look at the
paralyzed mechanism of the thing hat
was once of use to us. still hope to
make it work and cannot bear to
WELD the hammer. So we waste our
hours in puttering and tire our rains
in trifling. The ranks of failures are
recruited largely from those of the
slaves to the habit of tinkering. The
big successes are the men who now
when to smash the dollar watch
Copyright, 1912, by w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many a girl proudly wears an en-
gagement ring that has done much
similar service.
y = X
Individuals who don't change their
minds seldom get very far along life's
pathway.
Too many people forget that as
they SOW they shall reap until the
time comes for the harvest.
x e n
That early to bed and early to rise
theory increases in popularity with a
man as he grows older.
X y =
If it were not for the old jokes the
professional humorists of today would
have ever a harder time of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

oA4ACAS SQSSlS, LhdI A6 SATURDAY
Night club photograph vas a bowling
success.
1t is further conceded that the Ger
MAI traveller who followed the sound
three blocks in search of a drink, was
justified in thinking thai the Satur-
day Night club dinner was a raths-
keller. Had Jawn sung a few spasms
of "hi-lee-hi-lo," it might have been
necessary to throw the German out
on his neck to convince him that he
was in the wrong pew.
In Wichita Falls, Texas, the citizens
got out and dynamited for rain. That
was their last resort, and it bore no
fruit. They began, probably, by writ
ing to their congressman about it,
followed with praye then cussed a
while and wound up with explosives.
That is the usual order.
The New York walters strike will
be a hard one to break. After work
ing a year where guests pay their tail
ors' and landlords bills to cafe wait
ers. a waiter doesn't have to work any
more, anyway.
The Pittsburg, Kan, gent who stole
$50 pounds of dynamite and hauled it
away in a buggy should have a medal
for bravery, rather than a term in
the pen. At least that is the verdict
of one who is personally acquainted
with dynamite, and knows its peevish
disposition.
Roosevelt seems dissatisfied with
his henchman, Chauncey Dewey, and
may not permit him to take part in
the Chicago convention. But even
great men like T. r. may make mis-
takes. Chauncey, if provided with a
5000 and a sod shanty to / be-
hind, would be of great service in low
ering the Taft majority.
And, if you are good at figures, try
this one: In the gas explosion cases,
the gent who is charged with light
ing the-match got $4,000. The widow
of the man who was blown to king
got $4,000.
Doc Babb, the city milk inspector,
Is a Jealous protector of public health,
and may resemble Doc Wiley in some
respects; but he resembles an old
wagon on a rough road a dangsight
more.
We pipe from the news columns
that Mrs. Roosevelt has purchased a
corset for eight dollars. Tt k a
lot more than that to keep her hus-
band in any kind of shape, as Georgi
Perkins and the rest of the gang can
readily testify.
Any aviator must have a lot Of
nerve, but Jimmy Ward has more
his share. It has been discover
ed that he had two wives at one and
the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
DAFFYDILS
BY q. NOALL.

Would you class Noah as an electri-
clan because he made the ark light
on Mount Ararat?
(John Henry What do you mean
by standing there with that screen
door open?)
If there's no scandal in your family
what does your kindred?
CUP with the ladder, boys, shes
going to jump!)
If the sun smiled would the moon
beam?
(Thanking you for your kind atten-
ton, 1 wish to bid you, one and all, a
very kind good night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Surely, the unfortunates in the bis
cities who visit the mission houses reg
ularly or occasionally have to put up
with a whole lot. In the famous Bow
cry Mission in New York city they are
now -endeavoring to inject the -'ur-
lift" into the stragglers of the streets
through the medium of classical music
dispensed by real artists,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

LFrom the New York Press.J
Our plans for doing things are made in
cents and they come out in dollars.
always has an idea that a
few medals would make it genius.
The devil put envy into the human
equation just to make his business a sure
thing.
One comfort about general morality is
that no human being ever begins to lie
before being able to talk.
Even If a girl had sense enough to
make her own dresses no man would have
sense enoug to marry her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
IHE EARTH

The majesty and marvel of these souls
Who walk beside us in the common day,
Or hail us like a cry from out of the
night!
Could we but scan these souls as we look
deep
Into the chalice of white hyacinths,
Drawing the perfume from their hidden
hearts;
Could we but rend these mystic wells OF
sense
That hang before the temples occult
shrine
And know the Word made flesh, the shaft
of light
That masks grotesquely in this mad world
dream,
More foolish than night visions in the day,
hate?
Alice E. Ives in Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Business interests In Cuba would
welcome the Intervention of the
United tates to restore and maintain
peace in the little island republic. Bus
mess interests the world over are OPP
posed to war and they play a big part
in preventing clashes between the ma
for mowers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Another survivor of the famous 6oc
of the Light Brigade who made that
memorable charge in the Crimean wal
has Just died in Chicago. And while
there is not the slightest intention or
desire to question the authenticity of
this claim. the statistics OF the number
of survivors of this charge who have
since died would probably show that
several thousand, instead of 500, par
ticipated in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
FROM OTHER PENS


The sane Fourth having been well
eslaoLlsned In Massachusetts the Bav
state has become addicted to the habit
OF sanity. 1t has now decided that .be
explosive cigar, which conceals a min
lature bomb or skyrocket in its mvs-
ferrous interior, shall be eliminated and
utterly abolished. There is a certain
regret for the passing of the small nov
with his f~irecracker and his TOW niqtoi
There is a sadness in the Thought of q
new generation of young Americans
who will never know the tov Of +ba
Dig noise and decorations and the
screenings and the tetanus of The "pood
ole Fourth" These Juvenile nIea s1,res
he We been sacrificed on the altar ~ tho
seneral welfare. 1t is right that they
shouio De done away with, but none
ING less there is a pity for the boy
whose Fourth of July ~exuberance
must In the future find rent in a Chan
tauqua salute. But whatever regret
tnere may be for the firecracker and
the roman candle there is none what
ever IN the loaded cigar. This dfaboIi-
cal device has been the plaything nor
or the ingenious youth, but of the all
!esed adult, the smart Aleck." whose
Joy lies in the perpetrating of practi-
cal jokes. The loaded cigar is a nui-
sance, and 1t is somewhat dangerous
AS a piece of humor 1t is about as ex-
cellent as the April Fool candy stuffed
with cayenne pepper. 1t really ought
to have preceded the f~irecracker into
the limbo of mankind's outgrown SILT
ness, instead of trailing along as an
Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
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The news is received in The State Jour
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Melvin Vaniman's preliminary flights
in the dirigible balloon with which he
hopes to sail across the Atlantic also
call attention to the mysterious and
extended disappearance from the lime
light of Walter Wellman. Maybe nc
is making plans to visit both the
South and North Poles and bring back
the flags tina Peary and Admunsen
have planted in those places. Perhaps
he is also contemplating the ascent OF
Mt. Mckinley to bring back the rec
ords that Doc Cook placed on its top.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Count Zeppelin's latest airship has
Just made a successful flight of 450
miles at an average rate of speed OF
43 miles an hour. News is now Ii
order of the destruction of this marvel
of the air in some or another.
But the count deserves better luck lar
this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Gratifying evidence that the moneyed
people OF Topeka have all possible con-
fdence in the substance of their city
is to be found in the fact that a city
bond issue of $149, 900 was over-sub-
scribed $4,000 by local capital. This
is as valuable an advertisement with
h outside world as Topeka could
well have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Orozco is issuing fiat money. He will
find it's utter worthlessness when he
attempts to buy munitions of war for
his rebel army in lands where the gold
tandard in currency prevails.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Is this more evidence of the unre>
-sonabIeness of women? One of the
show girls who pelted w. E. I.
stokes with leaden bullets has just
sued him for 500. 900 damages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

If the story that has been told in
the Los Angeles court by Detective
Franklin is true, it is reasonable to as
sumo that had Clarence barrow been
able to fix one or more of the Nc
Namara jurors, he would not have ad-
vised his clients to plead guilty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Another lynching will undoubtedly
occur in Texas. A physician there
boldly that rock and rye
will not cure a cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Even with the walters strike ii
New York assuming larger proper
tions each day. the bulk of the peo-
pie in that little old town will be able
to worry along nicely as long as the
bartenders don't strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Needless to say, T. R. was not among
those present at the recent lawn fete
given by President and Mrs. Taft on
the White House grounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Italy's war in Tripoli is probably not
bringing in anything large in h a
of returns on the moving picture
nrivileCeS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES RI1J.


The so-called "anti-fnjunction bill"
passed the house today by a vote OF
244 to 81. This least has been pend
ing in congress for eight or ten years
at least, a fact which one would not
infer from the size of the majority
given it. A measure which meets an an
proval so nearly unanimous ought to Ia
able to make a quick and triumphal
march through congress. That IL
should pass by so nearly a unanimous
vote after so long a struggle prob
ably Signifies, not that a large num-.
Der OF congressman have been heartily
converted to 1t, but that few congress-.
men are equal to the courage of oppos-
ing 1t at this particular season. In
saying that. we do not mean to depra-
cate the measure itself, for 1t is un-
doubtedly designed to correct a real
and serious grievance which IaborinR
men have had against the courts on too
many occasions. l. f. Accommodates
nothing more than 20 put a stop to the
issuance of John Doe intunctfons II
will not have been in vain. Until the
practice became so d as 70
rouse public sentiment which moved
them to be more circumspect, federal
judges undoubtedly did make fire.
quent and grave abuse of the intunc-
tive power. In practical operation.
these John Doe injunctions" were
merely a method of depriving men ~
the right to a trial by tury.-DaIIas
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Mrs. Emmons Blaine, one of Chi
Cages fashionable women, buys her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
KANSAS COMAENT
THE GRADUATE.

This is tie season of the d
The colleges and high schools of our
country are graduating hundreds of
students. Our own high school has a
class of nineteen splendid Young men
and women graduating from the vari-
Gus departments. Some of these high
school boys and girls will go to col
lege. Some of the college graduates
VIII continue their higher education.
Many of them, however, will go
to work, or at any rate must take some
position in life other han that of n
student in school. 1t is asked will thav
succeed. Has their education helped
them. Maybe not all will succeed ss
someone else has planned success for
them. 1t may be conditions will have
to be met, which do not tend TO srccess
III their chosen line. But, has their
education helped them? We think so
In the hurry of the age we too often
Juose quickly. Time will tell and statis-
ucs nave proven the value of the graf
rate over his less fortunate brotha-
VINO had not the advantage of schooI
training. Vocational education is nov
being introduced in our schools and
there should be fewer misfits Of naonla
VINO are IN the wrong occupation. Va
catlonal education is instruction in tho
industries and the student who receives
Vocatlonal graduates from
schooI with a purpose as to his lisa
work and not at the mercy of circure
Stances as 10 What occupation in life
n" shall pick up. 1t leads 10 maStarrS
OF ones chosen occupation and brings
OUT the Dig things, the hidden imnuIses
the likes and dislikes of students and
means the early training for posjttons
Tor which their abilities best fit then
Eureka Herald. ~
CHILDREN.
1t Is natural for us to long for q no.
OF ease-but no one really beIievas
tnat such a life tends to the deyaIono
nlent or the sturdiest Character w
KNOW that the children of those rbo
nave struggled and CONQUERED are tbe
oues VINO III the most important posi-
ions IN later life. They have tba eIe-
ments or success that are seldom founc
In the child of rich parents. Thev CO..
go out into n world and carve a pIace
Tor themselves without help from any-
one Inc rich mans son must be boil
stored up by wealth and influence
n even then he fails more often thar
ne succeeds. Now one Of the great rea-
sens why We are here is hat we NAV
reproduce our kind. The question Is
what sort of children are we sendtn1
out into the world to represent rs2
When We look at IT in that light vuo
al see that we are really 10 he ON
Wed in that we have brought I'M chill
oren who are not afraid to go out
empty handed, to make a home for
themselves and to rear a famiIv 1ybioh
In Its turn, will tell more than any-
thing else possibly could, the kind OF
cltlzen We were.-Valley Falls Kansan-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
by THE WY
By HARVEY PARsoN2

among guests, that the Saturday
Night club monograph was a bowling
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04

Any aviator must have a lot of
nerve, but Jimmy Ward has more
than his share. It has been discover
ed that he had two wives at one and
the same time.