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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
IFrom the Chicago News.I

When fools are glad wise men are sad.
Adam lost out when he parted with one
of his ribs.
Men are like trees; they grow either
crooked or straight.
Nature generates facts, but fiction is
manufactured by man.
1t takes a practical fisherman to detect
the lie in fish story.
Some men begin to economic after
marriage by growing whiskers.
Many woman prays to get into heaven
and fights to get into society.
Married women like to board and pre-
tend that they are doing light housekeep-
ing.
A man may worship the woman beau
tiful, but he usually marries the woman
dutiful.
We feel sorry for the man who has a
nagging wife to fuss over the ashes from
his pipe dreams.
About the only time 8 woman has moth
ing to say is when she has a chance to
praise one of her rivals.
BY the way, old you ever hear d man
admit that his life would have been
ruined if his wife had refused to marry
him?
A woman always seems to think man
can make over his silk hat as easily as
she can make new bonnet out of the
one she wore last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Mike Donovan" Sammy watched the
wrath again kindling in Polly's eyes.
While she wrote the name on the slip
of paper Polly mastered her emotion adj
mirably, but it was only by force of her
will. She felt relieved when the man had
gone and she could watch his progress
0own the street Polly admitted to her
self now that he was not near her that
she liked something about the man.
ct doubt If he is q white winger at all, >"
she confided to herself.
That evening, at the big Chelsea dance,
she looked up and met a pair of laughins
eyes
II am delighted to meet you" said tile
owner of the eyes, and something in Sam
my's tone prompted Jimmy Guthrie, who
had made the Introduction, to make his
escape.
Polly blushed. but held her ground
firmly.
You have the reward-even though you
are a fake white wing she flushed up at
him with suddenly happy ring in her
voice.
ct will admit everything except that"
said Sammy, and his voice, too. was hap
by. II refuse to admit that I have the
reward-yet." He looked down at the
diamonds nesting against her neck.
Polly glanced up swiftly. Whether 1t
was from the expression of her eyes or
merely his intuition, Sammy knew that he
was looking into the eyes that would one
day be opposite him at his own table
Copyright, 1912 by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
.AYHAWKER JOTS

Presumably Miss Abbie Hobb1e of
Abilene has a skirt that also fits her
name.
Now that the pure food law has
proven such a great success, why not
pass a pure speech" law? asks MISS
Carlson of the Lindsborg News
Editor Howard of the Everest En-
terprise remarks that Christmas comes
but once a year and everyone is glad
because it leaves us with 364 days to
try and save up for the next one.
One couple in this vicinity, reports
the jamestown Optlmtst' nave oeen
keeping company for a long time ana
the girls mother is beginning to think
the young fellow is a Standpatter IN
stead of a progressive.
ct can always tell when that guy
has been drinking" said Nellaye Clio
yer the other day within the nearing
of Tom Thompson of the Howard
Courant HE never offers me his
heart and hand unless he's fuller'na-
goat"
We saw a man back his wagon half
block the other day, with heavy
after he had unloaded, drove out
straight. He could very easily have
driven in and backed out with an
empty wagon. 1t is such things as
that that keep a man down.
Among the dozen or so items from
Stribby Creek in the current issue of
the Strong City News-Courant were
the following: J. H. Frey went over
to Marion county on Middle Creek
tuesday. 49,. Mrs. L. ]. Frey went
to Llmdale on Friday, and brought
her son, Frank, home with her to
spend Saturday@and Sunday. F. S.
Frey, ]. H. Frey and D. May went to
Eimdale from stribby Creek, satur-
day. $3.50. Mrs. l. J. Frey went over in
Marion county to visit Mrs. M. Heg
wer Wednesday,. L. J. Frey went
to Hymer on Thursday. Miss
frances Frey went to Elmdale on
Saturday. Three of the remaining
items in the same brief batch of news
were: C. F. Phager and wife went to
Cottonwood Falls and Strong City on
Wednesday, between trains and to see
DR.. linden. &C. F. Pflager and
son butchered a fat hog on Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. C. Paager and
daughter, Mrs. J. o. Pierce, went
down on Middle Creek Saturday after
noon. So the betting is about even
that the News-Courant's correspond
ent at Stribby Creek is either a
Pf1ager or a Frey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
EVENING CHAT
On Throwing Away.
BIZ RUTH CANERoN.

A friend of mine who was about to
move was sorting over a draWerful or
accumulated 'truck"--I can think Of
no other equally expressive woodland
was throwing more than half of 1T
into the waste basket. TT makes me
feel dreadfully to throw all these
things away she said.
'Why?'' I asked. do you think
you'll ever need them again?'
"Oh no." she said, "only it seems
terrible to throw them away after
I've kept them so many years, given
them valuable houseroom and sorted
and tidied them up every year. The
time and space I've given them sort
of makes them seem valuable, though
1 never got any good out of them"
Isn't that a suggestive statement?
How many of us have closets and
bureau drawers and chests and garrets
filed with truck" whose only value
is the time it has eaten up and the
valuable houseroom it has filled.
Do you know how to throw things
away?
There are a great many people in
the world who never master this art.
Accumulation is a mania with them.
1t seems to hurt them to destroy, or
give away, or otherwise get rid Of any
article no matter how remote is the
chance of their ever having any use
for it.
The wise person who understands
the art of elimination as well as that
Of accumulation, asks of e7ch object
that is taking his time and space, "Is
it likely that 1 shall ever use this
AGAIN." And if he thinks it is not,
he gets rid of it. He knows that the
annoyance it will cause him to have a
burden of unused objects in his home
is greater than the annoyance he will
feel from having gotten rid of one or
two things that he might have used
again.
The unwise man with whom accumu-
lation is a mania asks, "Is it possible
under any combination Of circum-
stances that would ever want this
again?' and accumulate accordingly.
1 once had an elderly relative who
acted on this principle. Her mother
had been a dressmaker and she actual
ly insisted on keeping all the paper
patterns from which her mother had
cut gowns 80 years ago. "Oh they
might be useful sometime" she would
insist vaguely but obstinately when
she was urged to get rid of this clut-
ter and make the house more habita-
BILE. She never used them and, of
the fire along with several carloads
of similar stuff by her heirs.
Learn to throw away.
The ability to accumulate is valu-
able, but the ability to choose and
eliminate is equally so.
There is scarcely one of us who does
not possess too much, who does not
need to make a raid upon his or her
house about once in so aften, and
sternly get rid of those articles which
are hinderfng rather than serving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

A woman never expects good news to
come by telegraph.
1t doesn't take much of horse to feel
good in cold weather.
AS a general rule lost boy will come
home when he gets hungry.
BY the time he gets his Christmas bill
paid, a man must begin saving for Easter.
1t is never difficult to get a man new
in the insurance business to accept an
appointment"
Probably you aren't as busy as you
think you are in which you are a good
deal like everyone else.
An Atchison man is so worthless that
even the Socialist party won't promise to
do much for him.
An insurance agent is as persistent as
the o. f. evangelist in his efforts to scare
men into his way of thinking.
AS man grows older he has less desire
to live in a country where sleighs put
the automobile out of business all winter.
An Atchison woman is so anxious to be
in style she hopes she will be presented
with surgical operation Christmas morn
ing.
About the hardest thing for a man to
realize is that he will be dead some day,
the same as the friend whose funeral he
attended yesterday.
There are all sorts of people in this
justly celebrated world, including perhaps,
an occasional good woman who would for
give a bad one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
QUAKER MEDrTATToNs.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Don't be afraid to accept advice. You
don't have to use it.
Four-fifths of the opportunities in the
world are homemade.
Some fellows couldn't even ride hobby
without using spurs.
Keep your mouth shut and you won't
have to eat your words.
The difference between a politician and
a statesman is that a statesman is some
times out of job.
To love our neighbors as We love our
selves, it is also necessary to love our
neighbours children we love our own.
Miss Yellowleaf-"The lips that touch
liquor shall never touch mine" Mr. Blunt
Are you referring to your lips OF your
nQuor?"
He had been 50 bold as to ask her hand
in marriage. Leave met she exclaimed,
haughtily. You're left he replied, with
equal terseness.
Love makes the world go round"
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes, but unfoTtu-
nately it hasn't the same faculty of max
ing both ends meet added the Simple
Mug.
Little Dolly-''I haven't had a spanking
all day" Uncle Henry-"Been a good
girl eh?'' Little Dolly-"Oh, 1t isn't that;
Mamma has been perfectly angelic
Whats in a name?" demanded fair
Juliet 'Fwen,'' replied Romeo. eff you
want to get in society there ought to be a
hyphen in it" Shakespeare, however, not
wishing to write over the heads of his
audience, subsequently altered this line il
his immortal tragedy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
HUAOR or THE DAY

THAT fellow who talking so nicely
about love in a cottage must be poet"
mo; he's a real estate dealer. He's try
ing to persuade me to get married and
buy a seni-detached cottage on the in
staIlment plan. Herald
your father called me timber wolf.
What did he mean by that?" "Oh, that
lust one of pas political expressions. He
used to live out West, you know.
and nothing ever pleased him so much as
TO shoot a timber wolf before breakfast.
OF course he didn't mean anything by it,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ask the Unsuccessful.-Which is the
easier-popping the question or question
ing pop?-Judge.
Never Again.-"This portrait doesn't re-
sernbIe me at ALL" pardon me, madam,
but / once made a portrait OF a lady
that resembled her?'-London opinion.
A Debt of Science.-"What debt we
owe to medical science" he said, as he
nut down the paper. Good heavensi"
she exclaimed, haven't you paid that
doctors bill yet?"-Chicago Post.
Between Two "Cops. "-The Magistrate
What brought you to this? The Prisoner
Two coppers. The Magistrate-Drunk,
1 suppose? The Prisoner-Yus-both on
'em.-The Sketch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
THOSE sTENc1n-P1ATE ARTISTS.

The annual holiday crop of artistic
! calendars shows the poverty of the
men who made them, despite the skill
they employ. One and all, the faces
which are used are those which the
artists have made their sign manuals,
their trademarks, so to speak, as If
they were patent medicine men OF
manufacturers of new brand of to-
bacco.
You can tell a Gibson girl, a Coles
Phillips, a Fisher or a Wenzel as far
as you can see her They have be
come such familiar faces that their
beauty, their piquancy. their general
allure, has become deadened by famih-
arity.
The fact that these men make the
same outlines over and over again
seams u wanton dissertation of talent.
The mere monotony of it must be ter
rible. the spirit of commerce which II
obtrudes must have a vulgarizing II
not a destroying effect upon the am
bition.
Here are men who do nothing but
stencil-plate themselves over and over
again. Once Gibson did break away from
the grind He threw away his pen ana
inL and took to the brush and palette
bu+ the venture was not a success
commercially or artistically. And SO
he is now back at the old trade again.
+ranonine around a circle like blind
horse in a MILL
The situation is often duplicated all
along the line of artistic endeavor. II
is particularly true of the stage, where
one success, a marked distinctive
spectacular success, puts shackles on
a mans ambitions. If he makes hit
as the player of SILLY ass English
men he is doomed to such characterize
ton all the rest of his life, irrespective
of the fact that the ability which en-
abled him to give new values to an ola
subject is still there, anxious to do
new things newly.
There is no appeal. Managers, like
publishers, are commercial. They make
a. man do over and over again what
he has done triumphantly. 1t is the
day of types. The artists, the actor,
the writer, must stick to them, else he
suffers.
But what about the people who long
for something new and never get it?
Are they never to be considered? OR
will it be necessary for them to strike
since strikes are the fashion-and by
boycotting the stale force the new into
the field?
There never was a better time for
talent that is novel, provided it is ag-
gressive, too. 1t will have to fight,
but the rewards will be worth the
struggle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
QUEER PEOPLE.

The house contractor is a man
Who works on a peculiar plan
suppose building he would raze,
he pulls 1t down, so odd his ways!
The bakers an unselfish guy
Such altruism dirns our eye
His bread he lets US have when he
Quite clearly kneads it more than we.
The walters name don't seem to fit
We fail to see the sense of it;
He hurries to and fro with plates
The diner tbs who really waits.
And there's the man who goes aroun'
With paste and brush and bills the town
Though paying work his way may fall
His -Ainess drives him to the wall.
Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor does it necessarily follow tnat
the biggest talker says the most.
\
This is also the season or the year
when there's an Increased demand for
digestive tablets.
Policemen often fail to make good
because they are such sticklers for
minding their own business.
K =
Too numerous are the folk who pay
scant attention to the old saw that if
YOU stick your finger in the fire you're
sure to get burned.
Undoubtedly, many people are hard
put to it today to wax enthusiastic
over a variety of Christmas gifts for
which they have neither liking nor
use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
TOO BIG TO BE ovERLooKED.

Every now and then facts come to
light which compel thoughtful persons
to give serious consideration to the
immense bulk and possibilities of the
Russian empire. Something happens
which brings Russia into the spotlight,
and the enormous extent of the
country, it's prodigious weight of num-
bers and the volume of its transactions
show every intelligent observer of cur
rent events that the Muscovite nation
is altogether too big to be overlooked
or pushed aside in dealing with the
most vital problems of the world and
the age.
For example, in this year of record
crops in the United States Russia
proves to have surpassed this country
in the production of wheat and to have
beaten American about three to one in
the size of its potato crop. The Rus
sian rye crop was much larger that
the wheat yield of the empire. and far
exceeded the biggest crop of wheat ever
grown in the United States. In oats
Russia stands second only to this
country, and when the American crop
is short the Russian figures are likely
to prove the larger.
In other respects, also, the immensely
Of the Russian empire is plainly ap-
parent whenever official statistics are
studied. For instance the Bank of
Russia holds more than $500, 00o, 900 in
gold and silver Its deposits amount
to nearly $500, 100000
Backward as the empire Of the Cars
has been in railroad building, it is
making rapid progress now. Plans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
CH1LDREN-oLDEsT FASHIONS.

/
Children are one of the oldest fash
ions there are, writes E. S. Martin in
Harper's Magazine for January. There
is an impression that they have
changed considerably, but 1 suspect
that much of it would crumble under
penetrating examination. The partic-
ular children that chalk-mark the
posts of our brown-stone steps and the
outer wall of the basement do not
strike me as being newfangled. I
didn't chalk-mark anybody's brown
stone front steps when I was five or
seven. Why? There were none con-
venient for that purpose. But my
mothers copy of Cruden's Concord
ance, bound in calf. still bears the pin
scratches with which 1 embellished its
smooth side surfaces. I think 1 got
the slipper for that, just as a remin-
der that it was an impolitic act. I
can't remember the slipper, but some
thing fixed the impolicy of those pin
scratches in my mind, and I suppose it
was the slipper.
That was very much the same sort
of childish achievement as chalk
marking our front steps; a little more
wanton and should have-known-bet
| terish because the chalk marks came
off and the scratches didn't but plenty
like enough to keep a contemporary
grown-up person related to the chalk
mark children. We are of the same
family. My household acquired a pup
Ply awhile ago, the first in long time.
have noticed that he also belongs to
this large family of childhood. I
guess all children are old-fashioned
L guess they are the true conservatives
that keep the race from being i'm
proved off the earth. 1 guess If you
dig down a little into any child you
will find much the same deposits-pi-
rate gold, marbles, dolls, weapons,
chalk, and all such tribal treasures as
made Coventry Patmore weep to find
them in his son. They are all old
fashioned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
DAFFYDHS
By q. NoALL,

Is dog an animal when his tail is
a wagon?
make him promise he won't do that
again.)
If ship ran aground and became
immovable would the cargo?
(Happy Jack will now do sailors
hornpipe.)
Does the brick-walk because the
tomato-can?
(Come on. bows LeA's get back to
the FARM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
KANSAS cOAAEKT
THE CONSTITUTION.

Roosevelt asserts that THE people
are above the constitution" and seems
to imagine that he has promulgated a
great progressive principle when he as
serts it. What is the constitution? IL
is the pledge of the people who govern
this nation that upon the lines ana
conditions expressed in that constitu-
ton the governing shall be done. Are
the people above their solemn pledges,
or do they stand beneath supporting
them? The constitution is the contract
and covenant that the people nave
made with themselves to insure to the
weaker elements in society fair con-
sideration.. Are the people above their
contracts? The constitution can De
changed. There are instances wherein
changes should be made. Perhaps the
power to chang it should be more
readily invoked. But while it stands,
and so long as it stands, 1t is the stand
ard of government which the American
people have themselves raised, to be
above the power of majorities or the
rash impulses of the strong and mighty.
Mr.. Roosevelt is wrong in this asser-
ton. His following is wrong In pro-
mitigating such ideas. The individual
who should assert a right to violate his
contracts, break his pledges, and do as
he pleased in spite of his promises.
would be an outlaw, and a. ''undesir-
able citizen" A party or a people that
would set at naught their fundamental
law, asserting their right to do as they
pleased, in spite of it, would be cutting
adrift from the safe principles of civil
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tribune.
TOO MUCH CREDIT BUSINESS.
There is too much credit business
done in the small towns of the coun-
try and much of 1t will have to be
discontinued if the country merchant
is to compete much longer with the
mail order houses. Many persons in
the country towns ask for credit-and
get it-who do not need IT and do not
deserve it. Every business should be
conducted with as little credit as pos
sible and the time is not far distant
when practically all of it will have to
be eliminated. On the other hand the
merchants who do extend credit are
often very lax in making collections.
They present bills perhaps twice or
even once year when they ought to
demand a monthly settlement of all
accounts. The extension of the parcels
post is going to compel the country
merchant to revise many of his bust
ness methods and the first of them
will be to demand cash from the people
who ask credit from the local business
men and then send their money to the
mail order houses.-Sedan Times Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

There is also the possibility that
March Is, which has been set as the
date for converting the special session
of congress at which a revision of the
tariff will be undertaken, will also be
an Ides of March for the Democratic
party and its president. Any and
every variety of a tariff revision seems
to have a whitening back fire and the
kick of a million mules.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.I

IFrom the New York Press.1
The best way for a woman to control
herself from having a good cry is If 1t
makes her nose red.
When a girl always has cold feet she's
too modest to talk about it.
Santa Claus tries to break men from
smoking by the kind of cigars he gives
them.
A man takes great credit to himself for
being able to point out to somebody else
a millionaire.
Water wagon pride rideth for q fail or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Perhaps it is just as well that Cover
nor-elect Hodges vetoed the plans for
an inaugural ball. Colonel Bill Sapp,
of Galena- is the only Democrat Of
distinction in the state who sports a
silk hat. And in addition thereto
most of the marchers to the pie-coun-
ter travel at a gait that is scarcely
suitable for tripping the light fan
taStic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Five thousand federal soldiers are re-
ported to be again on the march in
Mexico. And if they follow their pre-
cedents of the past year or so, they
will of necessity march around in a
circle, for they have shown a remark
able faculty for never getting there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

That increase in pay for the Santa
Fe shopmen was also a mighty valua-
BILE Christmas present for Topeka. 1t
will add 100000 yearly to the Santa
Fe shop payroll in this city. And the
bulk of this sum will be expended or
banked at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Governor Wilson must have some
idea by this time of the delights of
being president. Among his Christ
mas presents was a 43-pound turkey.
Nobody but president of these
United States ever gets a whack at
the drum stick of such q bird
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Why should President-elect Wilson
worry about or give any attention to
the selection of his official family {?
The amateur cabinet makers at Wash
ington appear to be perfectly willing
to take this important task off his
hands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

An extremely valuable hint for pa
rents is contained in the explanation
of Woodrow Wilson as to why he
never had any ambition to learn to
smoke during the days of his youth.
You see, was never forbidden to-"
he says, $50 there would not have been
any point to it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Mrs. Mary Leigh says she threw that
Ratchet at Premier Asquith sym
bolically." Which may suggest to the
English authorities the advisability of
resurrecting that old-time symbol, the
ducking-stool.