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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFron the Chicago News.1
Some men, like wells, are driven to
drink.
A girl despises flattery-untiI some one
begins to flatter her.
Some men smile in the face of adversely,
but they don't mean it.
Some men are so lazy that they are uE-
able to catch slow fever.
A woman doesn't have to change her
mind in order to change the subject.
When you make your mark in the world
see that it is a mark of esteem
It's foolish to talk of what man should
do when you know what he will do.
lies, his family is the biggest on record.
The farmer is now informed that the
safety of the country depends on his vote.
A woman can sometimes help her hus-
band to enjoy pleasure trip by not go
ing with him.
Time is said to be money. but as a rule
he requires.
matter the surer they are that they know
all there is to know about it.
Don't think a girl by any other name
would be as sweet, Alonzo. You may find
out your mistake after giving her your
own.
Before marriage a girl wants ner
fiance to write her love letters. but after
facing the parson with him she is salts
fled with checks
Once upon a time there was girl who
declared she wouldn't marry any man
living-and she kept her word by marry
ing a dead one" later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IRON the Philadelphia Record

From the PhiIadeIphia Record
A straight tip on sure thing generally
demonstrates that life is full of uncer-
tainties.
An actor doesn't have to play one-night
stands to realize that life is a fleeing
show.
Some people get a lot of satisfaction
from the old saying that Rome WASH t
built in a day,
The man who depends entirely on the
push of those who are back of him will
seldom get to the front.
Sillicus-''The Bible tells us that the
earth was made for man. Cynicus-''Yes,
and the ave rage financier seems to think
he is the man.
-'BorroweII is one of those fe.-
lows who can't take a joke" Wagg-
wen, I've noticed he'll take anything
else he can lay his hands on"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26

laughed long, sweetly, like the Grace
of yore! She turned on the man.
Did you imagine she asked, tnat
1 could possibly be in earnestE Next
time you come to a little lake town
for a vacation don't boast to anyDouy
before you start that your re golhs ~
cut a wide swath amo-g the Htlle
country girls who find life so dull lHal
they are wild for a chance to ran IN
love with man of the world! some
body might write it to one of the lsLtlS
country girls. before you even reachS't
the place, and she might possibly ~
ready for youi Perhaps L am Wl.u
about you, but 1 don't seem to knew
it. 1 don't seem to want your loNS,
or your motor cars-or you! doh
even like you, and I'm sorry I've hau
to waste three perfectly splendid sum =
mer weeks to put you where you De
long!" Her red head was held hlsn-
Martindale stared, and she contlnue0'
still very sweetly. LAS for that Bart
lett child I'll have you know that
we've been engaged-this long time,
and he's the dearest thing in all the
world Every time I've looked at you
for three weeks I've adored Jimmy
more! See?" Grace was getting rather
slangy, but Jimmy eXulted.
Well" said Martindale slowly, you
have the best of it. Butt do love
you. 1 mean it and"
And you might as well go away
right low. don't want TO look at
you another minute. 1t makes me
ashamed of myself to have stopped to
getting even with youi 1t was horrld
of me. Not that you didn't deserve
it, thought VIII you go?" She stampe
on the turf. If 1 only knew where
Jimmy was!"
Martindale took his paddle and de-
parted. Grace began to cry in a sort
of lonesome rage. and, with a great
crash and rattle of oak boughs, Jimmy
dropped down before her astonished
eyes.
"Grace, darlingl What is it?'
She wiped her eyes and laughed
with an effort at the old sauciness.
"Ohi" she said, where did you
come from? You're something of a
stranger"
He tried to take her hands, but she
jerked away.
You needn't act as if was your
property"
Indeed he interrupted calmly.
II thought we'd been engaged this long
time, and that I was the dearest thing
in the world Do you suppose 1 had
my fingers in my ears up there over
than all that. Come, Oracle, you can
make a fool of me any longer. Yon
know you love me, and you might as
well give up"
An impudent CLEAN came into her
eye as she moved away from him.
There comes Mrs. Green" she re-
marked. Lets take her out on the
lake"
That good lady was approaching,
but Jimmy was firm.
Il won't go on the water" he said,
land don't you dare suggest it. Once
I get hold of you, terra firma will be
safer place, as you Will find"
She made a little face at him.
Mrs. Green she Called sweetly. eff
you are walking back to the hotel, Mr
Bartlett and I will go with you If you
like
How dear of you!" answered tina,
lady, beaming. Then you can come
back together
I'VE can come back through the
wood road" he said. 1t was a lonely,
shaded road, and Grace knew it. She
avoided Jimmy's threatening eye and
walked demurely along with Mrs.
Green between her and her husband
to-be.-C Copyright 1912, by McClure's
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26

work of the life-savers. Their idea OF
water is creeks that dry up under the
summer sun. So they oppose placing
them under civil service protectlon
and granting them pensions Others
hold that pensions are due only TO
men of the army and navy, forgetting
that a single season on the ocean, or
the great LIKES, often puts more peru
in the lives of the men than the entlre
years of service of many soldiers anu
sailors.
Something should be done for these
men and at once. Uncle Sam should
declare himself with finality. If he
will not be just-there is no question
of generosity-then the people shoulo
follow the example of these phllan-
thropic women and give these every
day heroes their due, not as gift out
as unofficial atonement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
THE UNREwARDED LIFEsAvERs

Things have come to pretty pass
when private generosity has to make
amends for national miserliness and
injustice. Yet that is just the condi-
ton of the lffe-saving service.
For sixteen years two New York
women, keenly alive to the neglect of
the government and fully appreciative
of the heroism of the life-savers, have
given one thousand dollars annually to
Superintendent Kimban for the relief
of the old or disabled. These women
are sisters who came to Washington to
find out if the government pensioned
it's life-savers. When they learned
the contemplate treatment of these
fearless public servants they resolved
to do all that was in their personal
power to atone for it. superintendent
Kimban says that he could use many
thousands of dollars more in this same
humane work. What is given is but
a drop. What he needs is a wave.
The world at large while proud of
the courage of its life-savers, does not
know how niggardly they are treated.
They have no stability of service. They
are engaged for a few months every
year and then are let go. They get
such small salaries that they cannot
save enough TO tide them over the
winter, so they go around seeking
work that will leave them free in the
spring to return, cap in hand, to
Uncle Sam, and ask him to let them
be heroes again, nearly at their own
expense. Some men have held on in
this way till they are veterans. The
majority fall victims TO their daring
or become a prey to disabling rheuma-
tism. In both cases, when their ca
pacity for work is gone they are kick
ed into the gutter.
None of the congressional efforts
that have been made to change this
pndition have succeeded. The inland
legislators know nothing of the noble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few persons show any disposition to
hide their light under n busheL
Many people undoubtedly 1ali 70
mind their own business because they
haven't any.
y
Women have great powers q per
suasion-over men VINO are anxious "
please them.
married. couple,s first quarrel sell
dom follows the rule that the nrsO
shall be last.
One poor excuse that may pc retL ,s
than none is a wife's plea that sIe
needs all kinds of swell ciot:'es -
make herself more attractive III heI
husbands eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
The Convict Shin

just i've weeks remain for an in
spection of the old British prison
snip, Success, which is moored at Vyar
Ien prldge. Now that the schools ar,
open the ship is the mecca of many
pupils who, by an inspection of tn
craft, get an intelligent idea of tho
manner of handling prisoners in m
olden time.
On the upper deck of the shin there
is an exhibit of various implements of
torture, and among the most fnteresf-
ing is what is called the Iron maid
en-, which figured conspicuousIy
Wnen the craft was in use The com
pulsory bath always is a sonrca -
much interest, and the guide who es-
corts visitors round the ship mas
ma many interesting anecdotes concern
on the middle deck are cells where
prisoners used to be confined. Each
heid three prisoners, except when the
snip was crowded, and then as many
gether.
George LoveIace, who was one OF
me tlrst martyrs to the cause of or
ganized labor, at one time was con
fined on the ship, and his cell is
among the things to be seen. He re-
celVed seVen-year sentence, but wa
pardoned by the British government
after serving a three-year term -,
Australia The black hole. int
which unruly prisoners were thrust
has a heavy teakwood door. or et,I
same deck is the flogging stan,3
which has a number of UNIQUE e.
lures
On the lower deck are the dungao-
cells and the tigers den, which ~.
been the scene of many an Incident =
the history of the ship Wax ffr,,,- ~
or notorious criminals. dressed IN tbe
regulation prison garb of the time -
scattered about the ship From -,
TO bottom, from one end to the ot,,s,
the ship Is an object lesson to presens,
Wy cIy y, ' as 1t shows UP IN
ing with prisoners a century or ~ -,
ago and the methods of today.-f3o--
ton Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
THE WINDS TALES.

At night when everything is still
me wind it speaks so loud and shTill,
AND tells the strangest tales to me,
wonder how such things can be.
1t says the moon man comes at night,
And walks the street till morning light,
linen when he can no longer stay
He goes home by the Milky Way.
1t says a black and ugly bear
Is living our dark hall stair,
To chase me up to bed at night,
Though never yet has caught me quite
And OH the very worst of all,
1t says the gray bat on the wall
At night creeps underneath the sheet,
To nibble at my tired feet.
The wind it tells strange tales to me,
I wonder If they true can be.
Helen NJ. Hutchinson, in Harper
Magazine for October.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
DAFFYDHS
BY o. NOALL.

If Silas Hopkins got noisy in the
theater and they threw him out would
you say they were heaying a 81?
(Killing is too good for this fell
low. He's the boob that put the nick
in Nicaragua
If Pat is Irish and Bridget is Irish
is the baby Irish stew
(Of6cer! Take that horrid man
right out, he's full of gumdrops.)
In the game of war is the bullet?
(And the professor will now sing
that charming ballad: "'Tis best we
part. Anita. when you begin to throw
things.")
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
THE PEOPLE AND THE Gospel.

In these columns of Fridays State
Journal, there was printed an article
under the caption, people Eager for
Gospel 1t was an abstract of con-
tribution to the November Century by
William Lyon Phelps, and was made
up entirely of his views in the prem
ises. All of the conclusions and opin-
ions expressed were Mr.. Phelps's, al
thought they did not happen to be
placed within quotation marks. Mr..
Phelpss views were merely presented
by the State Journal, not necessarily
as its opinion of the question involved,
but solely as an interesting discussion
of a topic that is being given consid-
cradle attention these days all over the
country; and for the consideration of
State Journal readers for what they
might consider such ideas to be worth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
BOSTON REFORM

It's coming! And it is pretty certain
to come from Boston. The Boston
transcript favores the French plan Of
designating the social status Of candi-
dates upon the ballot Thus" it saws.
the Frenchman may choose between
the former army officer and a popular
plumber, or between an editor and Il
nod carrier, or between a Protestant
pasteur and a Socialist agitator. Here
at home (meaning Boston probablv) we
are sometimes at a Joss to know wheth-
er the candidate We select is a person
of respectable standing or not" Turn
on the agony! Let's have the social
standing of our nominees, and down
with those who don't cut some svath
in our best society," Does Bill Taft keen
MS pants creased fore and aft? In what
bfldge-Whist crowd does Woodrow VIII
son circulate? Can Teddy dance the
bunny huge" It's vital inforuatio, Iflro
this that is lacking in our platforms
and on our tickets. No wonder that
Bostonese, who stand idly by while
women are being dubbed as their chill
uren are torn from them at behest OF
wool trust, want to break away from
Poiltlcai practices that give no one light
on the social standing It must be
SIMPLY awful to have to go to the polIs
not knowing whether one is to vote for
an honest plumber or carpenter or one
OF the ehte.-Pueblo Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26

That there is a tinge of the opera
bouffe to this war in the Balkans is
shown by the exchange of defies be-
tween the Sultan of Turkey and he
Gar of Bulgaria. The sultan sent to
the car a sack of millet. indicating
that his soldiers were as numerous as
the grains in it. Bulgaria's ruler re-
piled with a sack of red pepper, in
viting the sultan to stick his nose in
it and ascertain how badly people get
stung who n eddie in Bulgarian affairs.
Or perhaps this was merely the clever
conceit of an imaginative newspaper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
FROM OTHER PENS
A LITTLE LAY SERMON.

me Jokesmiths crack many a mer-
~ Jest at the expense of those who get
wildly excited over the great national
sport, and probably the average fan
mas his own private opinion OF ne
man Who can see nothing in a world Z
series contest to stir his blood But
Tor all the jolly quips which are in
dulged in at the expense of the base
ball bug" it is doubtful II there was
ever a game invented and DEVELOPED
Whlch contains so many elements OF
human nature and which is therefore
such a close analogy of human life.
me Bible writer's likened like to most
OF the sports which were practicsd
in those far off days. but If baseball
mad been played by the youths OF Pal
estine it is pretty certain that many a
trenchant lesson would have been put
INTO baseball parallels.
Particularly is a worlds series rf-h
IN homiletic possibilities It must Ice
obvious to the most Indifferent b.
server that each worlds series devcl-
ops its heroes and they are very fire.
quently, If not usually. men from
whom comparatively little was *
pected. While on the other hand. those
who were the chief reliance of the
rival managers fall down woefulIv in
the pinch" Most Of the exigencics
and emergencies of life are "pinches.'
though that is only the baseball way
OF calling them crises. The man who
can be relied on in the pinches Of ifre
IS an immensely valuable asset 20
Whatever cause may hang upon his
succesS.-Austin Statesman.
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A SATURDAY SERMON.


That no man go beyond and defraud his
| Lord is the avenger of all such, as we
also have forewarned you and testified
| 1 Thessalonians " Is.
This was among the exhortations CT
st. Paul to his friends in Thessalonica
where he had established one of the
first of the Christian churches in
Macedonia. It was excellent advice
for the Thessalonians. 1t is just as
good for the people of today. in no
matter what nook of the world they
are located. And many of them would
do we'll to accept it and act accord
ingly.
1t is strange but true that in the
moral code of many people only those
things are construed as fraud which
concern the actual theft of money or
property, or the obtaining Of either
through sharp practices, the variety
of which are we'll nigh innumerable-
But any such idea is a most mistaken
one Many more frauds are practiced
daily on the credulous people, by de-
signing individuals who have personal
axes to grind or ambitions to crafty.
"A d in no human activity are more
litical arenas of this and other en-
lightened nations where the people
have voice in their government
through their votes. Men who are
scrupulously honest in their business
and financial transactions, who would
as soon cut off a hand as take a penny
which did not belong to them; men
who are naturally big-hearted and gen
erous, who would lend helping hand
to any wayfarer in distress-there are
many such men when they become OBJ
sessed with an ambition to hold pub
lie office or attain high political hon
ors who seem to think nothing of
practicing all manner of frauds to at
tain their desires.
They will go out in the highways
and the byways and with clever and |
pleasing, phrases declare themselves to |
be the friends of the people, the plain |
people. They will project all sorts of |
plans and theories for the betterment |
of mankind with which they hope to |
obtain the favor of the masses, and |
especially the less intelligent among |
them. And a good many such meE
know in their hearts that they would /
be powerless to bring about the /
changes they promise even if the OPP
portunities to try were given them.
They are the best informed as to their
own insincerity.
Such pretensions are frauds of the
worst type. They are certainly COM
pretended in the admonition of Paul
that no man should attempt to de-
fraud his brother lin any matter"
Their perpetrators are often successful
with their designs, but an adequate
punishment eventually awaits them,
for as Paul says, the Lord is the
avenger of all such.' And his venge-
ance will be severe.
However, it is within the province
of the rank and file of humanity to
protect themselves against such frauds
in every possible way. Every one is
familiar with the idea of the famous
Algernon Sidney, that God helps those
who help themselves" And the people
who will sit complacently by and per-
nit themselves to be hoodwinked by the
political frauds that seem to grow
more numerous each year in this
and other lands, have no reason to
complain of the sauce that is after
wards served them, even if it isn't
very palatable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
HUMOR OF THE Day

Say, Sam, did you give your friend a
quid pro quo when he sent you a silk
umbrella?" No, stree, nothin so stingy
as that about me. 1 sent him back a
gold headed cane.''-Baltimore American.
THAT shepherd dog of yours is watch
ing your strange visitor very closely %
Naturally. The dog sees that the man
looks sheepish. Baltimore American.
''Why didn't you bow to that woman
when she went by? Yesterday you seemed
quite friendly with her" sShe's nv
Tnilliner and paid her bill this morning .
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that the Turk may be brief in other
things, as well as getting out of the
way of Bulgarians.
None of the political platforms now
on exhibition will be entirely salts
factory to the rural voter. What the
rural voter wants is tariff which
raises the price of hay when he mas
1t to sell, and lowers it when he has
to buy his cow-stufing from neigh
Dor.
Self government in Cuba will never
be success until the Cubans become
more familiar with the English Ian
guage. In their honest attempt to pat
tern after the United States, they
construed rule by the BALLOT as rule
by the bullet,
And a Cuban officeseeker measures
his chance of election, not by the
number of votes pledged, but by the
amount of ammunition he has in stock
It is reported that the Bull Moose
is several thousand dollars in the hole.
This is a tip to wise Bull Moose credi-
tors to collect before November 8.
For after that tale there will be
little left of the B. M. corporation but
the odor.
The youth who won a wife by an
uphill race in Kansas City will dis
cover later that he has covered but
a small portion of the upgrade trail.
One might suspect that J. Johnsing's
goat is destined to browse in the same
pasture as Beckers goat.
Shoot beans or rice at the black
BIRDS says Prof. Dyche. Left to
vote, the blackbirds would probably
elect rice. They prefer rice as a steady
diet, but will welcome any scheme by
which their meals may be brought to
them. 1t is rather tough on the
blackbird, as it stands now, to have
to go out after his meals.
The fourth court martial of Lieuten-
ant Hand at Leavenworth reminds one
that the life of the senior officers is
not the dreary, uneventful life it has
been pictured. They always have
something on Hand.
Jouette Shouse is the name of the
Democratic nominee for senator from
the Thirty eighth district, and not, as
you suspected, the effort of some plain
drunk to address a letter to Dodd
CASTOR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26

In a church at Walla WaIla, Wash.
the pastor has naturally been exhort-
ing his congregation to Love one an
other" as all good ministers do, be
cause this is the keystone of Christian
ity. So enthusiastically and literally
have some of his flock followed his ad-
vice, that he has now found it neces-
sary to appoint kissing cops" to dis
courage Iove-making during service by
young couples who have been in the
habit Of sequestering themselves IN the
dark and quiet recesses of an ample
vestibuIe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26

Nor has Colonel Bryan lost any of
his cunning in the compromising of eff
fective phrases. In paying his respects
to Colonel Roosevelt the other day, he
declared that IF the Progressive can
didate believes himself to be a Moses,
he must have mistaken the voice of
Perkins for the voice of God"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26

There will probably be general
agreement throughout the country
that the jury in the Becker case did
no more than its full duty in returning
a verdict of murder in the first degree
against the New York police lieutenant
for having engineered the killing of
Gambler Rosenthal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR.
rFrom the New york Pc

IFTOm the NeW 7 OK Press.I
The crop that never fails is babies.
Borrowing trouble is dearer than buy
ing fun.
The bravest woman is the one who will
admit she has bad teeth.
A girl with knock knees is very lucky
not to have TO wear them outside.
If a man is willing to give his wife
one-quarter of the bed he takes the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26

It is lucky at least in one respect tina
Wilson was nominated instead of Clark
Otherwise the houn' dawg song NIGH
have been used in a photograph rec
ord
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26

This is also the season of the year
when big bear" stories come from the
football camps whose teams are like
~ to show championship form in the
crucial games to be played.
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LaFollette
Senator

Senator LaFOIlette is evidently
another gentleman of distinction
who is of the opinion that no
one is so admirably fitted as him
self to be president of the United
States. At any rate he doesn't propose
to vote for president on election day
because none of the presidential can
didates in the field measures up co his
st q III