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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
FROM OTHER PENS
HuMAN NATURE.

Coleman DUPONT, the president of the
great powder company, some time ago
desired to give SOME of his money away
and many friends rushed to his assist
ance to show him where 1t would do the
most good. Suggestions were made that
he build a church, or an asylum, or a
great school, but he accepted none of
the ideas suggested. He was favorably
disposed to the erection of a great and
beautiful memorial fountain in Wash
ington, but riding one day over a
dumpy road in Delaware, the thought
came to him that he could do no better
than present the state with a good
highway. He has already obtained the
permission of the Assembly to build the
read, and it has been stipulated that it
must be as nearly straight as possible
from the southern to the northern
it must be given free from
any membranes. 1t appears that the
farmers in this favored section through
which this model road is to be built
would hail the gift with delight, but
Mr.. DUPONT has already discovered
that farms through which he desired
to run the highway have already risen
to twice their value, while some few
have offered right of way through their
places. One man had been Offering his
farm for SO, 500, but as soon as he heard
the road was coming raised his figure
to $1,000, on the ground that the boule-
ward was going to improve his place 10
that extent. Human naturei-Ex-
change
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
GLOBE SIGHTS
nv THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Incompetent help is not as bad as
stubborn help.
Don't deny yourself pleasures to
enable your children to buy all the
gasoline they can use.
Sometimes the woman who saves
her love letters is not only sentimental
but a great financier.
Attention of the conservationists is
called to the waste of energy in shift
ing the responsibility.
Link Preston, with all his faults,
never talks about other people: he is
too busy talking about himself.
Frequently the killjoy is perfect
ly good man and probably Will be one
of the chief drawbacks in heaven.
Alb Atkins says his wife was a good
deal of a suffragette until the hrst
baby came to boss her. Alb says ne
never could.
About everything else has been said
in favor of alfalfa, but no one who
ever handled it said it was LABOR
saving device.
With no desire to dampen enthuS1-
asm, it may be said that there are
times when experience is more I'M
portant than ambition.
For general results and the maj
destination, it doesn't matter mucn
whether one cruises the booze barge
on a sea of champagne or a sea Oh
whiskey. Either way, it Is never
nrofitabIe voyage, nor joyful after tne
harbor lights are left behind ana the
headaches loan across the horizon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
FROM the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Recoro.1
IF Won have money to burn you will
always have crowd around the nre-
side.
The older we get the more we rea-
live that Nature is too busy to turn
out handsome men.
Dink-''Did the fireman seem pleased
when you gave him the loving cup?"
Gink-'Naw. He said he didn't care
for those empty honors."
Manager-"You'n never make an &C
tress; you're too skinny" Stage Struck
THAT doesn't make any difference
Every star has to have five good
points,
Medium-"Do you hear those knocks?
That's your dead husband Aunt
Caroline-''Naw, it's not, nuther. ]
dune tole yu onct dey doan use raps
where dat niger went"
NV creed is generosity; 1 help the
other man; ask no reciprocity, but
do Just what I can. When playing
cards I always share no matter what
luck brings, and gladly give my friend
pair if my hand holds three kings.
suuirmed upon the bleacher seats.
With soul and body fretting;
The players called the diamond soft,
But hard I found the setting.
You won't find an ak in a chop
house, although you often need it.
raised is very naturally shy of money.
Minister-"What were his last
words?' Widow, sadly-"I wonder if
| it's loaded"
Mrs. Dopie-''How long has she been
a widow Mr.. Dopie, absently-'I don't
know, M dear. Hasn't it been
since her husband died?''
Belle-"So you've fallen out with
Jack. Didn't he say his love for you
knew no bounds or distance. Dele
Eyes, presume that's what made him
go too far"
Hiram-'I tell We them there rich
fellers is easy marks Hank-"Yc
don't say" Hiram-"Yes, the paper
says Spendit was taken in by one OF
them frats an-an won't tell how it hap
pencil"
Somewhere a grille yearns for you
and longs to hold you near with girlish
charms and love most true It'll woe
shall disappear. For every heart there
is a mate but here the fable slips
| though captain is higher rank, the
mates run all the courtships.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

Arumugam, the calculating Indian boy,
of whose achievements we gave some ac-
count lately is marching on from triumph
to triumph. He now possesses a testi-
monial Gas well as Handsome dona-
ion') from the governor of Madras. Nj.
F. c. Harrison, the postmaster general
of Madras, says of him: He is a weaver
by caste comes from Tinnevelly, and is
said to be about fifteen years of age He
is fllfterate, both in English and Tamil,
looks simple, if not idiotic, and is very
NAUTICAL machine. and seems to contain
nothing else. Ask him any question in
figures, and he will reply with astounding
rapidity. For instance. he answered for
me correctly: The square of 1877, the cube
of e.61S, the fourth power of 126, the, fifth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
AS NO sAnnI.Es-

Well, you who'd be tony by ridin' a bony
And high-steppin' nag that IS minus
Are welcome to straddle postage stamp
saddle
And ride on the same like man on a
I wouldn't be pridin' myself on such
With knees all bent up like monk on
Yet just for to travel on ridin path gravel
1 reckon yer fashion will do pretty slick.
But when on the border, you receive a
quick order
Which requires you to ride fer the hull
Or when you must battle midst machine
guns that rattle,
Aboard critter that wants his own
You'll quit apin' Yurrup and Iengthen yer
stirrup.
You'll chuck the old postage-stamp on.
And when you're astraddle MccleIlan's
old saddle,
You'll find yer equipment is pretty near
right.
Seems clurnsy-fer a minute-but once you
are in it
You'll find you can ride from the daa-n
till the dark,
C'Reai ridin'," I'm sayin, not amblin' or
Four or five miles in a cute little park.)
An if your fool pony-without CEREMONY
Begins to display all his graees and
You'll find as he bumps you and jolts you
and jumps you
McClellan's the saddle keeps your hide
on your pants
Your saddle is tony fer ridin' that bony
An high-steppin' cob fer yer nice little
But 'twould be 'phony" fer such as my
pony,
That doubles your distance and squares
it besides;
I've seen you skedaddle around on that
saddle,
A-bibbin about fer yer five or ten
mile,
And I'm fer the saddle to sit in and
straddle,
The "Old Mcclellan Saddle" is strictly
my style.
A. Gustafson. in Army and Navy Jour.
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
ENGLAND's TITANIC VERDICT.

The preliminary report issued by
Lord Mersey on the result of the Brit
ish board of trades Investigation of
the Titanic catastrophe fully meets
the expectations of the public, on this
side of the Atlantic at least. British
pride and British assurance that Moth
ing which is British can be wrong are
too strong to be overcome even by
the most appalling marine disaster of
all time.
The report is a striking example of
what, to put it mildly, is commonly
known as the judicial temperament -
AS the London press says, it is severe
~ Unconditional and shows the ability
of the investigators to "detach them
selves from the human side of a. ca
lamity that narrowed the world" An
other English commentator on the re-
port cites the boards exoneration of
J. Bruce Ismay to show that in such
cases "the vulgar are likely to err"
In other words, the British board of
trade has applied liberal coat of
whitewash to nearly everybody and
everything British concerned in the
sinking of the Titanic and the loss Ct
nearly all its passengers and crew
But the world has formed a verdict
LUZ ilSelI. II remembers the ODSClnacy
with which England chung to old mill
tary traditions in the Boer war and
how dear price it had to pay for so
doing. 1t cannot close its eyes to the
fact that the loss of life on the IT.
tanic was partly due to antiquated
regulations still relied upon by the
British board of trade-the same
British board of trade that made the
investigation. And the world prefers
to accept the conclusions drawn from
the immediate and unsparing, even
if hasty, search into the causes of the
disaster made by a committee CT the
United States senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From the Chicago News.)

,(F'rom the Chicago NewS.)
In fishing for compliments use fresh
bait.
Even the bookworm turns-after fin
ishing the page.
Fresh people usually consider them
selves the salt of the earth.
We all regret many things we haven't
done-and only a few we have.
It's good plan to believe only half
you hear, then forget half of that.
Even good intentions prove too much
Of a burden for some men to carry.
Retribution is something we are NOR
tally certain will overtake other people.
Many a man who is rich in experience
is unable to raise the price of a square
meal.
A woman's favorite topic Of CONVEX
sation is herself; after that it is usually
some other woman.
If it's true that husband and wife
are only one, how does it require two
to make a quarrel?
A widow is never more dangerous
than when she tells an old bachelor
that she was never really happy in her
married life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
PHE MAN Ar THE THROTTLE.

The forty dead and many injured
had not been taken away, after the
railroad collision near Corning, N. Y,
July 4, when the officials who had hur-
ried to the spot arrived at the conclu-
sion that the blame for the disaster
rested upon the engineer of the ex-
press train. Now the corcner's inquest
has brought out the fact that he was
seen in an intoxicated condition within
four hours of the time his train
started.
This information is startling. For
locomotive engineer to indulge in
alcoholic excuses is something almost
unheard of. AS body. the men who
hold the throttle on the railroad shun-
strong drink. Their sense of the great
responsibility resting upon them, the
strict code of ethics which their organ
ization lays upon them, and the rigid
requirements of the railroad COM
panies make necessary abStemiousness
IN regard to intoxicating liquor. But,
as in all classes of men, no matter how
high their standards, there will always
be some who fail to meec the obiga-
tons of their position. These men,
when they are railroad employees. are
soon detected in their shortcomings
and discharged, but sometimes not be-
fore damage has been done.
This raises the question whether or
not the railroads, strict as they are with
their engineers, give them the protec-
ton and oversight which is really nee
eSSary. There have been instances
where engineers have dropped dead or
been overcome by sudden illness while
on duty in the cab. With the style of
locomotive which separates the fire.
man from the engineer, this is a seri-
Gus matter. And the fireman, even
when he is with the engineer con-
stantly, hesitates to take into his own
hands the authority of the man over
him, in case the latter seems not to be
in a normal condition. ~
1t has been suggested that at inter
walls along every railroad, an inspector
shall visit the cab of every locomotive
to see that all is well with. the man
in charge Of it. This may seem dis
tasteful to men of as high a grade as
the locomotive engineers. But good
business men welcome every check
that can be applied to their work. They
perceive that it is a safeguard for
themselves and why not the loccmo-
tive engineers?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

There is a certain class of people in this
world who are regularly given to abusing
privileges Sometimes their conduct re-
suits in the privileges being withdrawn
and withdrawn, unfortunately, not only
from them, but also from those who used
their privileges rightly; sometimes 4
merely causes infinite trouble and diff
Guilty to some one.
One of the department stores in nv
home city has always been remarka bic
for the courtesy which it has shown in
the matter of exchanges. Anything with.
in reason-and sometimes more than that
some one say. "So-and-So & Co. are II ot
so good about exchanging things as they
used to be-" If that statement is true,
there is good reason for the change For
again and again, I have known of the
courtesy of that firm being abused. I
know one woman who bought a green
silk lamp shade, used it six months, and
then actually exchanged it. If the privi-
leges of exchange are curtailed by So
and-So & Co.. think the woman who
took back that green lamp shade will be
partly to blame.
AS I waited for my white gloves at lie
glove cleaning counter the other day, I
heard one clerk say YEARLY to another,
I've just had two more lost checks re-
ported. Seems as if there wasn't any
thing but lost checks lately. If those slipc
meant much trouble to them as it does
to US, there wouldn't be so much careless
ness, can tell you" There was another
case of abused privileges. This time it
away, because that would be practically
impossible: 1t simply meant infinite trou-
BILE for some one.
Again. many stores are very liberal IN
their delivery privileges. At some shops
in the laroer cities. even the least ex
pensive purchase may be sent free Of
charge. But there is such thing as
using this privilege reasonably and stop
ping there. To be sure, you have right
to send even the little parcel which you
could easily slip into your hand bag, but
the idea of the system is merely to re-
lieve the customer of cumbersome pack
ages, and when you oblige the express
man to make special trip to your house
to bring toothbrush or three pairs OF
stockings, you are grossly abusing your
privilege.
There is reason in all things. Just be
cause the shop grants you these privileges
as a matter of business, does not Justify
YOU in abusing them. Decent people have
some sense of honor and decency in busI-
ness dealings as well as personal rela-
lions Besides, there is human element
in everything. You have an idea that IL
is only the firm which suffers when you
abuse one of its privileges. Nine time
ont of ten some Individual is also affected.
witness the incident of the white gloves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
HUN0R OF THE D<Y

The Comonn Fraction.-Her Husband
The census officials state that the aver
age family consists of four and a fraction
persons How do you account for the
band.-Judge. --..-.i-- 2.
...... .....
women will take part in the coming cam
paign? Gunbusta-I know two that will
Anna Mas and Molly Coddle.-Judge.
A romantic girl, in Fort Scott, Kan.
eager for mate, wrote her name and
address on an egg that was packed for
shipment. About three months later
handsome chef in a stylish New York res
taurant broke the shell of the egg. Whew;
The first whin convinced the chef that
the contents were decayed.-Ffzz.
Two Ways of writing.-Mrs. Bibbs-I
declare you men can't write a letter IN
less you have a regular desk, and office
chair, and big blotting pad. and I don't
woman may have a $500 desk. with every
thing to match, and yet she'll SIT down
Foster, in New York weekly.
The Widows Weeds.@They say Mrs.
Jelliffe has given up that pet white poodle
Mrs. WhilIiger. She's in deep mourning
for Mr.. Jelliffe, you know, so she has
exchanged Tobey for a black and tam
The aHrdest Part.-A little city girl
stood watching the hand on the farm
milking COW. Think you could do it?'
asked the hand. IT think So replied
Miss City. IT could do the milking,
think, but when you want to stop milk
ing how do you turn 1t of2"-The House
hold.
What He Was.-Ben Wilson, the Social
list agftator, once held a debate with
self-important Democratic politician in an
Oklahoma town In the course Of his
speech the Democrat, who was candi-
date for office, appealing to his nelghbors
for their votes, sad: why, trends, I
know every need Of you farmers; grew
up between two rows of cornT loud
voce came frim the rear OF the hail: "A
punkin, by goshP'-The Household.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NoALL.

Honestly, the man had been blind for
over twenty years, when one day,-by
mere accident,-he picked up his cup
and sawcer!
Gf the late Hon. Aesop didn't get
that one while it was young, it is his
own fault.)
At that moment the nut comedian
rushed into the wings and shouted:
IF Sothern owes me a quarter, how
much does Julia NARROW?
(Hasten. We scene-shifters,-the large
curved instrument)
When the Cathegians were whipped
by the Romans, did Hannibal?
(Back, sirrah, you can't swap me a
wooden horse for a wheelbarrow)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
The st. Joseph Gazette is pushing a

The ST. Joseph Gazette is pushing a
proposition to vote one million dollars
in bonds for rock roads throughout
Buchanan county. Nothing is more
needed in the west to give impetus to
the good roads movement than bond
issue of this kind. With a million dol
lar fund in st. Joe's community, adj
Joining counties and cities would wake
nm to the realization that a duty con-
fronts them. Everyone admits that
good roads pay for themselves in a
few years. No one offers objections to
the movement. But it takes activity
similar to the st. Joseph plan to stir
up the communities and start the real
work on good roads. There have been
enough roads built from the platforms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press. !

IFTom the New York Press. ]
The sincerest thing about most Deo-
pie is a hearty appetite
A way to be poorer than having a
family would be to have two families.
It seems as if it would be shocking
for women even to go to bed in soE4e
of the evening clothes they wear to be
dressed up.
As soon as girl marries a man she
finds out he's very human; as soon as
she finds that out she gets a lofty opin-
ion of her mother
What a man likes about his family
going away for the summer, leaving
him home alone. is he can go away,
too, and not bother to mention 1t 70
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

power of 81. the fifth power of al, and
the cube root of 1851"
One of the lads feats was the division
of a line of sixteen figures by another
line of six. In one case he was asked the
cube of large number from an advanced
reckoner. He was just one figure out
This was pointed out to him but he per-
sisted that he was right; and the sum be-
ing worked out on paper, 1T was diseov-
was right. Mr.. Harrison adds that physi-
ca1ly the boy is a freak. HE has super
numerary fingers and toes, and possibly
is defective in other parts. "-Manchester
Guardian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

Conscience has nearly half million
dollars to its credit in the United
States treasury. but it may be noted.
in reviewing the conscience" list, that
the fund is composed of contributions
from the people who used cancelled
postage stamps. misbranded mail mat
ter or committed other petit misde-
meanors against the government. Con-
science and the big trimmers. who have
beaten the government out of millions,
do not seem to be on terms of intimacy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

Putting It Up to Him.-When Richard
Olney was secretary of state he often
said that appointees to the consular SER
vice should speak the language of the
country to which they were appointed. An
enterpriSing western politician who de-
sired to serve at Chinese port presented
his papers to Mr.. O1ney. The secretary
remarked: Are you aware, sir, that I
neV er recommend a consul unless he can
speak the countrys language? Now,
suppose you do not speak Chinese?'' IF,
Mr.. Secretary" said heJ you ask me a
answer it, He got the job.-The world
Today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

Great are the athletes of the United
states. In the track and field events
at the Stockholm Olympiad, they
scored no less than IS points, as
against 27 points won by the athletes
of Finland, their nearest competitors.
In fact the aggregate number of points
scored by the winning athletes OF
eleven other countries was only eight
more than the number scored by the
representatives of Uncle Sam.
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WooFH NEWS WHILE AWAY.

gwnsca FVDeRs OF the state journal
nNvaY from home during the summer
hay have the paper mailed regularly
each day Go any address ek the rate OF
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changed ms often as desired. Mnlle
out Of town the State Journal VIII be
20 you like . daily letter nom nome.
Advance payment Is requested on
EneSe short dime subscriptions, to savo
Bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

If the investigators at Washington
continue to flood the press with the
assertion that the bomb intended for
President Taft was only a ''Joke,'' the
people will grow suspicious and con-
slider the attempt deep laid plot. But
after all a bomb isn't really bomb
until it goes off
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

Aspirants to perpetual political favor
might take a valuable hint from the
Bloomfield, N. J., dog catcher. The dogs
Agot Onto him, and he couldn't get
within catching distance until he dom
ned a disguise. Some vote hunters
might, by wearing false whiskers and
an assumed name, get within grabbing
distance of some elusive votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

The board of city commissioners are
to be complimented in their attempts
to give Topeka a whole new deck of
reinforced concrete bridges. The old
"tin' structures are dangerous and ex-
pensive. The taxpayers will save
money in a few years by voting $751;
900 in concrete bridge bonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

And Just why editorial writer's should
refer to the T. r. disturbance as the
third party" is hard to comprehend.
Outside of the two leading parties may
be noted the Socialist and Prohibition
parties,-either of them founded on
doctrines more substantial than the
"IE, I am IT." doctrine. To a disin-
terested spectator, the newest looks
Hike a fifth party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

During the past year the bureau of
engraving and printing of the United
States has turned out $50 096, 600 in cur
rency to take the place of notes so
worn by handling that they were unfit
for circulation. And although the re-
port does not so state, the chances are
good that a lot of the currency was
placed on the retired list as the result
nP decentralization
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

Congress has passed Senator Till
mans resolution calling for a new
"terror' war ship. Specifications for
the armament of the new battleship
have not been made public, but it will
consist, probably, of pitchforks and
stniggershooterS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19

Despite the efforts Of the railroads
to prevent wrecks with the latest
equipment and the most modern signal
methods, the terrible accidents occur.
Man failure is the greatest problem for
the railroads to solve.
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of agricultural trains and through the
columns of newspapers. Now for a.
few more bond issues.