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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
THE ANI-MuL SHOW

When am a man-in fun you know
And Pa is the Little Child,
AND he comes home from his work In
town
When the sun goes out and the dark
comes down,
ana supper is done and the lamp is lit
ana am not sleepy the little-est bit
MA says at we drive her purity near wild
With our Great-an'-only Ani-uuI show !
ISL down on his hans an-knees!-
AND L am the rich old Circus Man
AND he is the tagger from Hin-doo-stan
Jaeger 18th spots and a big ji-raff
A hump-back camel, and that isn't half
OF the things he is, when my Pa heC
In our Creation -only Ani-mul Show
once was a man-in play, you know,
And Pa was the Little Child,
Wy, we had our show and my Ma said
~ on two is enough to raise the dead!
what do you s'pose the neighbors'n say
When they hear such a racket, anyway :?
You'd better play a little more mild
In you Great an-only Ani-mul Shown
Pa laughed like a boy-in fun, you know,
And then him me sat down
And saw in the Goals, as we sat there
BY the open CRATE, in his big arm chair
The soldiers in battle and fireworks play.
TIL felt like shouting again "Hoo-ray!'
Though truly 1 think we beat Thrown
With our Great-an'- only Ani-mul Show!
-E. E. Kelley, in the Toronto Republi-
can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
EVENING CHIT
81 RUTH CA1dERON.

A mother has written to ask me to
say something on the harmfulness Of
Kissing games at young peoples par
ties
Delighted.
L didn't realize that forfeits such as
measuring so many yards of ribbon
ana picking cherries, and games Ike
On the Green Carpet" and cIap-in-
a1nlo.clap-out and the most fragrant of
young peoples parties.
but II they are 1 am certainly de-
against them
BUT in one point 1 disagree with nv
correspondent. She thinks that the
little girl of, say six or eight or fen
should be forbidden to kiss her little
BOY friends on the ground of morality
II l had little girl of that age /
snt ouiun want to awaken sex con-
scIousness IN her by such a prohibit
elon- should want her to feel ex-
actly the same towards her little bow
friends as towards the girls.
mere Is a little story in one of our
periodicals which L want to quote here
because it illustrates nv feelings on
this subject SO aptly.
little girl had been left in the
nursery by herself and her brother ar
I idv,t, 10 tlnd the door closed. The fol-
owing conversation took place:
Il wants to tum in, Cissie."
You tant tum in, Tom
why tant I?'
cause m in my nightie gown and
nurse says little boys mustn't see little
girls in their nightie gowns
AFTER an astonished and reflective
silence on Toms side of the door the
miniature Eve announced triumphant-
~, You tan tum in now, Tom. I
looked it Off"
That's just the kind of a little girl
l IKE TO nave And I'd try my best
70 proIong that innocence as long as
My objection to kissing games
among little children would be
rounded simply on my objection to ali
Promlscuous kissing as unhygienic and
as cheapening of something which
Should be sign of unusual affection.
AS nave said before in these col
umns, 1 don't like promiscuous kiss
ing, even among girls. I think the
handclasp is a much better form Of |
greeting The kiss should mean some |
thing more than that.
But when it's a question of kissing i
games among young people in their |
teens and twenties, there isn't any
thing you can say against this practice |
that I won't agree to.
A kiss-especially on the lips
should be seal of affection 1t should |
mean: 81 love you"
When it is used lightly as a form of
amusement in kissing games, or |
form of sensual pleasure in the game
Of hearts, it is cruelty cheapened
The girl who has given such kisses
has lost something she can never get
back.
am sorry for her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
AYHAWKER JOTy

Keep on trying, advises the Munden
Peoples Advocate. It's often the last
key of the bunch that opens the door.
Many a magnificent blacksmith
has been spoiled, insists the Osborne
Farmer, in a vain attempt to make a
lawyer or a doctor.
There is a tight-wad in Pratt ac-
cording to the Pratt Republican, who
is said to be so penurious that he re e
fuses even to donate advice.
Some of the optimistic Third Party
papers, says the Emporia Times. are
expressing the hope that the new
horse disease will not attack the Bull
Moose.
Editor Kelley, of the Toronto Re-
publican, is authority for the state
ment that no woman can use hair dye
successfully enough to fool the neigh
Dor women.
A wonderful word is clover. says til =
Jennings Echo. Drop the and you
have the happiest of mankind Take
away the and there remains bud
the peace in countless homes where
the masters frequent clubs.
Surely the Simpson News is an
alarmist, as the following suggestion
from it's columns would indicate:
When the women get equal suffrage
and others to do the housework. All
the 'hired girls will be running for
Office.
A little Atchison girl kissed her
parents good night lately and climbed
into bed without saying her prayers,
relates the Atchison Globe. Mar
jorie," said her mother, in shocked
voice, you have forgotten some
thing" mo. 1 haven't, mamma. re-
piled the little girl. Il have quit pray
ing: I knock on wood
An old farmer and his wife lived
near the village church, relates the Elk
County citizen. One warm Sunday
evening, while they sat doing on the
porch. the crickets set up loud ch1rp-
no. at inst love that chirpin' noise"
aid the old men drowsily. and before
he crickets had stopped he was fast
,sleep. Soon afterward the church
,hoir broke into a beautiful chant.
80 listen To that!" exclaimed his
wife. eain't it beautiful Yes, muir
nured the old farmer sleepily, they do
t with their hindlegs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
'sHdvH0vavd GHLN1od
IFrom the Chicago News.I

IFrOm the Chicago News.
Money is the root of much matrimony
Might may overcome right, but it can
never destroy it.
The average girl can love almost any
one-except g. stepfather.
Tt is easier to go broke in a hurry than
it is to get rich quick.
Many a born leader throws up the,
sponge and becomes a follower
Many pretty woman is merely a bunch
Of pride, preteEss and practice
One way to hold a mans interest is to
take a mortgage on his property.
People who are crippled in the head get
less sympathy than any other cripples'
When a man does get even with anoth sr
he Is never satisfied until he gets a little
more so.
A woman has no business with a fam
lily If she can't take something old AMI
make it over into something new.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

right. Start in planning and packing,
and you'll forget to worry
Didn't John want me to stay?"
| No; he said it was the best thing
ry said, placidly.
Pet pursed her lips and stared out
at the rooster.
Aren't men queer folks?"
Meaning John? why, he'll miss
you, dear, same as 1 will. but we're
name for yourself"
Aunt Julia says they have been
hewers of wood and drawers of water
since the days of Adam, and she'd
like to know what else the pesly
things are good for
Pet spoke dismally and Cherry
laughed.
That's just like her But that's
what makes the kettle boil. Johnll
miss you"
But he'll never say one word to
keep me from going"
Wish he would?" The gray eyes
were keen now.
Indeed not. He can do as he
pleases.''
Cherry was rather thoughtful that
afternoon. She cleared away tho
cooking dishes, and got lunch, and
washed up those dishes. Then she
went out and sat on the side porch
where she could look down the road
to the blacksmith shop. She always
sat there afternoons, and sewed or
read. listening to Johns ringing
strokes in the distance. 1t had be-
come part of the daily round of
happy, restful days to her. But this
afternoon the world looked different
Along about sunset she left Pet 10
clear up the tea things. and strolled
down the road John was not in the
shop. She found him out back of
his own kitchen, sitting on the wide
oak bench, feet up on a butter tub,
reading the daily paper and eating
his supper.
John, that's no way to do" she
said. just as if she didn't know he
always did it summer evenings. IT
brought you down some fresh cur
rant jelly and some tea biscuit.
Why don't you spread a place for
yourself inside and eat in coh1fort?"
That's what I'm doing" John
swung back heartily. Got some
cornbread here, and cold beef, and
pickles"
forcibly, You need a wife, John"
John took one of the delicate tea
biscuits and buttered it with steady
fingers.
mot while I've got a neighbor like
you to send me these"
John" persisted Cherry, do you
like Pet? Now, wait minute. Don't
talk till I get through. Sometimes
women folk don't know what ails
them, when all in the worlds The
matter they are heart-hungry May
be If that was what allied her, Pet |
would settle right down here and live |
happy ever after
That amt what ails her, Cherry" |
How do you know?"
81 know, because I've watched her
She's world hungry. Besides I'm
,hirty-five.'
But that isn't DID,, protested
Cherry. Haven't you ever been in
owe with anybody, John?''
"All my life almost" placfdlv.
Fine tea biscuits, Cherry
"All you life?" repeated Cherry
olankly. Did she die?"
Not yet, thank the Lord She's
light here on earth, clearing I'D folks
roubles and-and making tea bis
,uits.'
Then Cherry saw Light. John
ooked UP at her, and she caught her ;
breath at what shone in his ewes.
Down the road was Pet and her
lreams of conquest and wandering.
lie was silent, and her lashes fell
est he should read too much in her
yes.
TIL walk home with you, dear. and
We tell Pet" said John, quietly.
1 guess it's about cherry time. -
Copyright, 1912, by McCIure's News
aper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
DAFFYDHS
BIZ q. NOALL.

If a clock has a face has a croco-
die?
Cwoops. my dearl There's a RIG
around the moonO
If the lawyer in the will case Is
straight is the administrator?
chow are you fixed for the win
ter?) =
How can it be so cold in the Arctic
regions when the Eskimos go around
in their bear skins?
Gilt him again. He's the boob that
put the leg in the legging.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nothing is abused nearly so much
as the power of speech.
= -
Nine-tenths of all the conversation
most folk indulge in is about their
relatives.
\ =
The successful wife is the one who
can make her husband think he is
having his own way.
y -
Is it reasonable to expect any one
to respect the gray hair that turns up
in the soup?
Presumably, the servants oe the peo-
pie, who sooner or later attempt to
become their bosses, take their cue in
this respect from household servants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

wouldn't there be high dudgeon in
the ranks Of the Progressive party if
the government brought criminal ac-
tions against George w. Perkins and
others for the part they played in the
organization of the Harvester trust?
The Harvester trust, you know, is one
of the good" trusts. according to the
classification of the Progressives. And
Mr.. Perkins. it must be remembered,
is the financial genius of the Bull
Moose party. 1t is impossible to i'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Maybe when Colonel Roosevelt
reaches Topeka he will tell Kansans
Just who were the twenty delegates
and twenty alternates that represent
ed them at the Bull Moose national
convention So far, this information
has been kept dark secret by Mr.
White and Mr.. Allen, the Kansas lead
ers at that convention. Neither do
Kansans know how their delegates to
the great gathering were chosen, or
who selected them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Bully for North Carolina: Four
students at the state university there,
who hazed a freshman to death. have
been arrested and held in $4,000 bail
each to answer for their crime If
adequate punishment follows, a little
more medicine like it ought to make
hazing a trifle less popular with a GER
tain class Of college boys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

IF'rom the New York Press.J
It's better to read dime novels and have
sense than noble fiction and be tool-
A man wouldn't lie as hard giving him
self a reference as a woman VIII tho
cook.
The trouble with a man is he tries to
push the baby carriage on some scientific
principle, so his wife has to do It.
Even the pleasure of a man in having
his family away for the summer is spoiled
bv the cost Of the railroad tickets.
When a girl says a man proposed to
her what she very likely means is he Is
going to IL she knows anything about
handling men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

No wonder the New York police in
spectors found it necessary to graft
To get promoted to an inspectorship
under the old regime a captain had to
pay politicians and others the neat
sum of $4,000, which was about equal
TO an inspectors salary for four years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

And the many more or less dist,n-
guished citizens who would like to sc e
the business of the nation go to tne
dogs for political capital they might
make out of such a condition of af-
fairs, must be in great, but obviously
silent rage because there is no way 20
stop the spread of the wave OF prosper
ity that is rolling on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Many Kansas farmers have suffered
considerable financial losses through
the horse epidemic that has ravaged
the state. But there is this consola-
ton for them. The loss has come dur
ing year when they can afford it
better than they could during some of
the recent years when crops were not
so prolific.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

agine that he would be guilty of any
questionable act. even if he once was
indicted for the misapplication of
some funds of an insurance company.
But that surely must have been
frame-up. to iniure his good name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

John B. Snead of Texas. has all
the earmarks of being a gentleman of
an exceedingly old school. He has no
more hesitancy about numbering a
man against whom he has a grievance
than has the average person i'll swat
Ting a fly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

What will be the result OF woman's srf
frage?" TT will make a political career
more difficult for some of the married
men," replied Senator Sorghum "a co.
didate is liable to be kept busy lxeonIr.-
the family vote from going against bi,,S
because of temporary misunderstandins,
He won't have time to give proper affe6-
ton TO the masses. '-Washingto StaFl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Andrew Carnegie is said to be still
DESTROYS of disposing of his wealth.
Yet there are thousands of boys, just
gone back to school, who know they
are entitled to hero medals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Colonel Roosevelt is reported to be
tired and worn. That surely doesn' t
describe the condition of a champion
who is rushing on to certain victory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Why shouldn't the Boston club win
the American League pennant. Its
members have plenty of opportunities
for singing Goldfish balls during the
winter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Cupid is said to be to blame for the
capture of Sidna Alien and Wesley
Edwards. Why blame? Rather should
Cupid be given much praise for such
clever and serviceable piece of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Car Nicholas fears that he will
meet with a violent Heath. Why doesn't
he get an aeroplane and end the sus-
pense2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Recent New York dispatches in
dictate that attorneys cannot be to-
careful as to what their women client
die of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
FULL LEASED WERE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news IS received in The State Jour
mai building over wires for this sole puT-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

stripes are to be worn another
season. says an authority on fashion
But not by Banker Morse of New
York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

This is the open season for variety
of game birds including the campaign
orator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

Weldon--Is he man Of brains? Kane
Well, he runs a bigger automobile than
any Of his creditors.-New York Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
KANSAS COAAENT
FOOLING THE PropT.r


we nave stated before thai .he n a.
81 a large portion of The United
bo'S' ana Kansas in f,articuIa~
20 prepared themselves to be fool
~ me pins have all beer set and
Sae people can't be budged from their
ueeeT Illhatlon. Hence. fha1 u.fI1 T,aN,
no attention to the follovsnr. bi+ ~
soSpei truth; The farmers of KAN
Sas ought to read the eastern news
PAPERS. The Democratic ana Pr3-
s.resslVe speakers are Announcing in
me east that the first thing thew will
80 70 the tariff will be to renesI fI,e
oulles on Iarm products and make the
$500. on nVlng cheaper. The little rect
PLocily recently proposed with Can
ada Is not marker of what tba,, ~,sti
~ ~ me ne farmers if they via the cleo
ION. TO read tho Speeches Nv zoe
Progressive orators IN New YORK ven
MouId think that the great Cause OF
humanity was being subordinafed 10
the demands of the agricult,,roi cIo-~
or the west. That is ths Ne, +Iev
20 at II In New York. But in Kansas
tnese same parties put their feet on
another pedal Here il is Tho rosn,,-
facturers of the east that aro doing
the damage and must be regulated.
renovated and relieved of protection.
Only the Republican party stands for
the same principle both east ana west
the protection of Amertcon 1abo-
and of American eapital.@0sborne
Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
AN IMPORTANT REFORM.

The news that congress has actually
authorized the president to reorganize
the customs service by eliminating uh-
necessary employments and dropping
unnecessary ports of entry brings 20
a climax the movement for an i'm
portant reform. Experience shows the
difficulty or impossibility of inducing
congress to adopt any detailed pro-
vision for such changes. This explains
why the whole subject is now LETT 10
the executive to settle. The report
which he is required to make to con-
eress will obviate the danger of eX-
IRENE or undesirable Innovations.
Greater difficulty will be experienced
in determining upon the alterations
that are to be made. There VIII De
great severity of pressure upon the ad-
ministration to deal gently with abuses
strongly fortified by practice. That
some will be allowed to persist Is more
likely than that the re sorms VIII go
TOO far.-New York Journal Of Com
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
FROM OTHER PENS
WHOLESOME DOCTRINE.

w HOLESOME DOCTRlNE.
1t was an old principle, but one that
had been lost sight of in a maze OF
legal intricacies. which Judge Noyes.
of the United States district court, has
applied in the case of a consumer who
had suffered from eating a trichinous
pork product. The producers of the
comestible, the Armour company,
made plea, based on the law of sales,
to the effect that the relations be-
tween producer and consumer wer9
not direct, and that the company's re-
sponsibility was ended when it sold its
product to the first of q number II
middlemen, who handled the same be-
fore it reached the consumer. mas
much as the product was packed I'm a
Theoretically sealed can, it is not evil
dent how the intermediate landings
could have affected the product on ITS
way to the consumer; but Judge NoyeS
brushed aside all bubbles. saying that
the obligation of the producers should
not be based on privity of contract
alone, but rest on the demands of So
cial justice and on considerations OF
public policy. Every man is respon-
sible for results of acts of negligence
which he can readily foresee, and II
no precedent existed the court would
make one This is wholesome legal
doctrine, and it indicates that tho
spirit of progressiveness does not ez-
list solely in those who shout IN the
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
PASSIONS AND HEA1rr

Take care OF yourself, and Won can
be avenged on most of your enemies
by seeing them carted ous 10 we'll
kept cemetery. But they might not
be enemies by that time should you
take care Of yourself instead ~ tsIr-
ing something the doctor orescribes
when repairs are needed. For
grouches. grudges and hatred don't
wear well with the physically ft, nor
can you be that and maintain such
passions. Anger is a worse enemy to
digestion than rich food eaten in coed
nature, and hatred is anger IN Mara
thon form which gnaws the vitals
more certainly than other more
cheerful forms of dissipation. A
smart doctor told us the other day
that a normal man could make his
health about what he wanted it, IL
he would.-Atchison Globe.
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life RATS and lifeboats, they were
cruelty insufficient for that great COM
pany. The staggering of the wounded
monster and the gradually sinking must
have indicated to all that the end was
certain.
Passengers could be buoyed up by
the hope that assistance was coming
as fast as ships that had picked u.
the urgent appeal for aid, could plunge
through the water.
But the officers could have entertain
ed no such decisions. They knew from
the start that no vessel could reach
them before daylight and with the Wa
ter making in the holds faster than it
must have realized that only floating
wreckage and the filled lifeboats and
RATS would greet the rescuers.
. So they filed the boats, lowered them
into the water and ordered them
row far enough away so that the whirl-
pool suction that would follow the final
plunge of the Titanic could not swamp
them.
The waiting in the dark and cold may
have cost the reason of many of the
women. 1t was believed today the fact
that the Carpathia- which was first or
the scene, started direct to New York
as soon as it had taken the unfortu-
mates from the lifeboats, indicated that
many of the survivors were in a very
bad way. 1t carried only one doctor
and his best efforts were needed to
save the reason of the women.