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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Don't get mad because other people
do we'll.
Santa Claus gets by with them. but
no real man can make whiskers popu-
lar.
There are so many other ways of
getting it that the holdup mans work
seems coarse
Neither will the world laugh with
you much if your own story causes
you excessive merriment.
A man will kick on the hotel &C
Communications if they aren't better
than he is used to at home.
A man who buys from a news
butcher on a train isn't what one
would call a bargain hunter.
Man doesn't often shine socially, but
when he provides the party refresh
ments, no one goes home hungry.
A great man takes long vacations
because he can afford 'em, and not
because his labors for the people are
so arduouS.
One can't blame a man who mar
ried for money if he objects to his
daughter wedding a poor man. Elk
perience is a great little teacher.
Spanking Is largely going out of
fashion, but 1 sometimes think my
children behave a good deal better
than I did at their age."-Rufe Hos
kins.
We know a rich crouch who prob
ably quarrels with himself when no
one else is handy. Possibly the COM
mercial value of the smile is overesti-
mated.
In the matter Of thoroughness, one
might recommend those writer's who
speak of a widow woman, or an an
nuity of so much a year. One might
to be sure, but we won't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
AYHAWKER JOTS

Indian women, points out the Otta-
wa Herald, wore the first hobble
skirts; and they modestly attached
fringe to the bottom of them.
Not belonging to either the animal
or the vegetable kingdom the spring
of watch, thinks the Mcpherson Re-
publican must be a mineral spring.
Kansas is using twice as much oil
now as it was using seven years ago,
notes the Ottawa Herald, and it ar
CUES: Which ought to prove that
Kansas is making one-half the amount
of noise that it was making seven
years ago.
Says Uncle 81, of the Ottawa Re-
public: When it comes to runnin'
people down tn jay driver amt in it
with tn town gossip Some folks
are so cranky they'd scold a boy
has adopted tn liquid food fad SOS
he won't have to work his jaws.
One of the stories going the rounds
tells how Editor Herbert of the Hta-
watha World evened up things with
a doctor with whom he had Quarrefed.
He turned the trick with the follow
ing news item which he inserted in
the World. John Smith Will be OPP
Grated upon tomorrow by Dr. Hatch
field. Mr.. Smith will leave a widow
and three children
A few years ago Steve Perkins and
the late Judge Gephart were out cam
paigning in Jackson county, relates
the Hutchinson Gazette. They came
to a tumble down farm house that
showed signs of neglect. The owner
of the premises was standing out in
the yard. His hair was long and
shaggy, his beard unkempt and he was
by a pack OF "houn'
dawgs." eff this fellow isn't Demo
GRAFT" said Steve, "he has all the
earmarks of one. Let's go in and in
terview him. The two candidates
the farmer and after in
Producing themselves, Steve explained
that he was a candidate for sherin
ana Mr.. Gephart was a candidate for
Judge on the Democratic ticket. I'VE
would like to have you vote for US,
concluded Steve. well, III tell
you," drawled the farmer. Il always
vote as 1 shoot, and, by gum, I shot
south in 81"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30

quality to her smile. Slowly the man re-
Ihey walked down the quiet shaded
street together
will You come and see me-some timer
asked the artist plaintively. II think 4
shalI stay in town awhile
Ihey were on the station platform ard
tue train was approaching. Warmer
helped her up the steps, and held her
naEd. He had not said a word about go
ing abroad, but it was the most insisten.
thought in her mind.
cliff, will you come soon?" she whis-
pered. Her heart was in her eyes; her
race pale with earnestness; her chin
Quivered.
Zulme''
He ran beside the moving train. still
holding her hand She leaned forward a
little, and a wonderful blush swept over
her features She drew her hand away,
and then flung out both arms across the
wlurned space between them. Come!
she called, and their glances locked until
she was carried out of sight.
Then Cliff Warmer did a strange thing
He walked rapidly back to his cousin s
to the corner where stood the tall Oriental
scTeen-with a long. oval mirror behind it.
If Gracia had sat where 1 did and
looked into that mirror" He smiled at tie
recollection. And if Zulma knew why
opened that window-and that every word
I spoke before that was for her benefit.
Going abroad Saturday? No, in
deed. I'm going to town to see Miss
Zulma Trent, artist. belle. housebreaker.
and my little wife-to-be. '-(Copyrigft
1912, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
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mNMnENCEi

Confidence is the basis of the world S
peace and of business security, writes
John A. Sleicher in Leslie's. When
nations distrust each other, suspicion
follows. then comes anger and the
seeds of war are planted.
The business man who lacks conf
dence in a partner or an employee suf-
fers in consequence. Transactions in
voIving millions of dollars are reported
every day on the Stock Exchange in
New York and are based on an up
lifted finger, a nod of the head Or
word passing between the brokers.
Business men take pride in hearing it
said of them, Their word is as good
as their bond"
Secrets involving ones happiness in
life or success in business are intrust-
ed to the mail, in a himsy envelope
with a two-cent stamp, in full conf
dence that the message, undisturbed
and unbroken, will reach it's final des-
tination.
Confidence contributes to the welfare
of those who have it, but the world is
full of distrustfuI people. Shadows
confront them on every side. They fly
from imaginary dangers; they fight
imaginary evils: they battle against
wrongs that they conjure up them
selves; they worry over things that
never happen. These are the disturb
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Help others and others will help
themselves.
It's practice that makes perfect, not
preaching.
Some people only seem happy when
they have bad news to tell.
No matter how fast young man
is he seldom catches up with his good
intentions.
Many a man puts his best foot for
ward so far that his other foot never
catches up with it.
Sometimes it's laziness and not su-
perstition that prompts a man to put
off till Saturday what he might begin
on Friday.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to re-
mark that the man who has never
been in love doesn't realize what a
fool he can make of himself.
Nell-Mr. Saphedde says he leads
a very busy life. BELIEVES, he
spends half his time wondering how
he is going to spend the other half.
Tatterdon Torn-Wot I object to
about de wealthy classes is dat they
are so vulgar. RolHngstone Nomoss
Oats right. It's de rifinin' infIoo-
ence of poverty wot brings out de true
gentleness of humanity. Gimme q
chew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Make hay while sun shines and keep
right on when the clouds come and the
sun goes down. We've been trying a
long time, but we've never found a sub
stitute for everlasting sticking to it.
The union labor principle is all right,
perhaps, for enforcing fair wages, but
the man who works his union day and
lets it go at that never gets beyond the
union scale. It's the overtime that
you put in for yourself, and upon
which you realize the profit, that
counts for success.
It's a mighty good rule to take adj
vantage of every opportunity that pre-
sents itself, but when you've done that.
you've only gone half way. After
you've made the acquaintance of every
one that comes with a formal introduce
ton, you get ahead of the other fellow
only by forgetting your manners and
going out into the byways and the
hedges to bring in another opportunity
by the forelock 1t isn't doing just as
much as your neighbor and getting just
as much for it, that puts you at the
top of the heap. 1t is pegging away
when he has quit work that gives you
the lead. The only story of the hare
and the tortoise was pretty much to
this point. The hare worked union
hours The tortoise was the kind of
a fellow who works union hours, col
lects union wages and then spends his
leisure time h-stling to swell his bank
account.
The shortening of the hours of labor
is the greatest single step that has
been taken for the emancipation" of
the wage Garner. The average man
still has some energy left after work
ing his eight hours. He can live upon
his wages, ordinarily, and the rest of
his time may be spent in self-improve-
ment or in increasin his earnings,
looking after small investments, and, in
q general way lifting his affairs to the
financial level of those of the small
business men. Once he has gone that
far. unlimited possibilities are open to
him.
In this simple way, journeymen be-
come masters, the employee of today the
employer of tomorrow. Thus shorten
ing of the hours of labor gives the
wageworker of today an economic adj
vantage that his father did not have.
1t profits him little, however, if he has
not the industry and the intelligence
to make use of his opportunities. High
places are not won without the firing
of brain and body. Some little sacri-
flee of recreation. some denial of COM
fort, some hardship of some kind ever
and always the price that is paid for
1t is well enough to
make hay while the sun shines, but he
who quits when the sun departs is a
laggard still. The man who gets there
is he that coins the hours that others
waste.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Many a man has been sold who
didn't get his price.
There are times when the scales of
Justice look fishy.
The coming man usually turns out
to be a bill collector.
Occasionally a widower's heart is
warmed over by an old flame.
Some people seem to lie unneces-
sarily in order to keep in practice.
It's easy to be economical when you
have neither money nor credit.
Many a man becomes resigned to
fate after he finds himself all in from
fighting it.
A woman may know a man like a
book. but she can't look ahead and
see his finish.
The surest thing in this world is a
friend you can't depend on when you
need him.
The girl who is ambitious to make a
name for herself usually ends by ac-
cepting some mans.
You can never tell how many
friends you haven't until you run for
office or try to borrow money.
1t is much easier for a woman to
get a man where she wants him than
it is for her to get a point on a lead
mcneil
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EVENING CRHT
How We Mould Our Lives.
BX RVTN CANEERON,

'Oh, dear! Things never seem to go
day fGF Wonder Rsa nave done
deserve, to have such troubled ex-
what I am" rather than what have !
| done" For she is one of those restless.
excitable, IMPOSED people for whom 1t Is
! next to impossible that things should go
| How few of us are willing to recognize
! the fact that our temperaments help to
| shape our lives and make the conditions
in which we live.
And yet how largely they do!
There is a Divinity that shapes our
ends, rough-hew them how we WILL" has
always been a favorite quotation with
the sons and daughters of men,-I sup
Responsibility from our unwilling shout
ders and dumps 1t down on a vague per
sonage who cannot very we'll refuse 1t:
| troubled existence preferred to blame an
angry Providence for her condition, Tath-
er than to look for the seat of 1t in her
stormy petrol disposition, and yet right
there she would have found the cause OF
much of her trouble. Some of the events
that have kept her from having smoo h
sailing in her life do seem to have been
gratuitous gifts from an evil star, but
more have come from her own disposi-
ton and her habit of finding trouble
where better poised people would lind
smooth sailing.
She thinks her next door neighbor is
blessed of Providence in having most
serene and undisturbed life. She fails to
recognize that much of that serenity is
in the woman herself rather than in tie
conditions of her life; or rather, that it is
that serenity of character which has
helped to make the conditions serene.
How I wish didn't have to hurry 50,
but things seem to happen so that I'm
always in a rush." is another woman
complaint. I wonder by the way what we
should ever do without that long-suffer-
ing word happen" This woman is one
of those people who are always trying To
do more than they possibly can, and, ns
Inevitable result
ing to catch up with herself.
She has to hurry, she says, and never
realizes that her only task master is her
own habit of trying to do too much. or
course she could eliminate enough from
her life to make it normal, but no one
could convince her of that She thinks 1t
is the force of circumstances that drives
her on at that desperate pace, while reat-
ly it is nothing but the force Of tempera-
ment.
So. if you want to change the condi-
tons and temper of your life, look within
as we'll as without,-you will probably
find quite as powerful causes in the one
place as the other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
HUAOR or THE Dry

Why are you trying to get a fury Of
DlonoesF Hardly know myself First
case l ever tried before a Jury OF women
MY client, as you see is a yellow-haIred
dame, ana she seems to think that bru-
nettes have a grudge against blondes. -
Boston Advertiser.
How did that story pan out about the
man up the Bronx who found the big hall
stone on his back stoop this morning?'
asked the city editor. Nothing in IT.
replied the reporter. He discovered ~
wasn't hailstone, after all The icernan
left it there. "-Woman's Home Compan-
ion.
Il don't trust that man." why not7.s
when he was talking he looked me
straight In the eye just as that rascal
who sold me the fake mining stock did o.
Detroit Free Press.
Husband with bad cold, reading our
war news to his wife)-I see the BuIgar-
Wife-Oh. no, dear; I think that must be
mistake-they took that place last week
Punch.
'T wasted a full hour Yesterday >,
''How?" ASKED Green how his bafv e.
getting on."-Detroit Free Press
What is the real difference betweAn
mushrooms and toadstools?'' .'One lie a
feast, and the other funeral ''-RaIti-
more American.
Willis-How's his credit? Does he nav9
GiIlis-O. yes. He always pays sonethi1s
down and never pays anything up.-Puci<,
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ers of the peace. They make their own
lives miserable and spread unhappl-
ness all about them. They sound
note of discord when harmony prevails;
they doubt when others accept; they
fight when others yield; they quarrel
with the world and finish by quarrel
ing with themselves.
Confidence adds to the joy of the
world, to the happiness of the people,
to the progress of the times. 1t turns
darkness into day, adversely into pros
perity and, greatest of all it's victories
it transforms death into life. Happy
the man who makes it his watchword
day by day!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
ABoLTsHING POVERTY

The abolition of poverty has been
one OF the dreams of humanitarian5
and race lovers. A world where hun
ger stalked not, where all had enough
10 live on comfortably, where there
was warmth and raiment and food for
men, women and children would be a.
world worth while, many of US think.
But would it? 1t will be readily con-
ceued tnat 1t would greatly minimize
distress, but to bring about such con-
oltlons 1t would be necessary to recre-
ate this globe, because If we wouId
nave creature comforts we must work
and save-and only a small percent
age of our poverty comes from actual
misfortune. Men reach their best
estate only through struggle and work,
not with hands at one anotberss
threats. but each with hands at his
own tasks. new system of taxation.
VIII not abolish it, neither will a better
distribution of created wealth do IL:
they can only help. Like good many
otner reforms that are desirable it in
wolves making over human nature
Lincoln News.
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NAVAJO.

Rough are the trails we follow,
Hot are the winds we face;
Swift as the cliff-bred swallow
Over the plains we race;
Out of the hills, low-lying;
Ride we a thousand strong;
Hank. on the breezelet dying,
Unto the herdsmens song.
Over parched water-courses.
Scars in the deserts breast
Swiftly we urge our horses,
Putting the wind to test;
Now through the mountain passes
White with eternal snow,
Then deep in prairie grasses,
So ride the Navajo.
Far are the fires that twinkle,
Calling US always home;
Faint are the bells that tinlkle
There where our sheep bands roam
Let the black night entrap US,
Yelling her stars in raina
Slumber shall e'er enwrap US
Bedouins of the plain.
Denver Republican.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press.J

IFrrom the New York Press.1
Bank balances shape more lives than
destiny.
Being a rich aunt without any chill
dren is about the most popular job.
What makes a man specially dis
gusted with the government is to have
a cold in the head.
A pair of corsets can be more of a
help to a girl in getting married than
a thorough musical education.
A woman will nearly always lie about
the salary her husband deceives, and
he always will about how much of 1T
she gets away from him.
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FROM OTHER PENS
CLAWS AND HI.

From a political viewpoint there is
something unique in the investigation
now being conducted into the conduct
of Louis r. CLAWS of the California
conservation commission CLAWS is ac-
cused by Surveyor General KiDgsbur
with having used his official position to
advantage certain large interests. The
investigation is being conducted by
Governor Hiram Johnson. Louis r.
CLAWS is probably as much RESPONSE
BILE as any other one man for the
prominence that Governor Hiram
Johnson has attained in national poll
tics. 1t was the charge made by Gla-
Wis to the effect that Richard BalIin-
ger then secretary of the interior, was
aiding the Guggenheim interests in
their efforts to gobble up the enor-
mously wealthy coal lands OF Alaska,
that gave the progressive movement
in Republican party politics it's first
substantial impetus. Claws was
promptly bounced by the president for
his assault upon the integrity of the
secretary of the interior, and the pres
tdent sought by every means in his
power to wipe the stain off RaIlinger's
name. But the public believed that
Ballinger was guilty concerned in the
Guggenheim project, and out of that
conviction arose largely the first con-
VuIslon OF popular disgust that made
progressiVeism among Republicans of
prominence possible. 1t was the growth
OF the sentiment of insurgency born
or the CLAWS Ballinger controversy
that brought Hiram Johnson into the
limeHght as a national figure It is
gong to take results to fully under
stand the new relations in which John
son and CLAWS now find themselves
tanding.-Lincoln Star.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few men are as good as they ought
to be.
- -
Persons who think alike make mighty
poor companions.
j.
None of the dreams that come true
amount to very much.
J. T. j.
Working for living is the only easy
way to obtain one.
Many of the jokes have points that
are exceedingly dull.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30

Everybody who hasn't appraised the
Mexican federal army as a joke can
find additional reasons for doing so in
the weIl-authenticated news from Ell
Paso that recently different columns of
a federal army division attacked each
other with much force, their command
ing officers each laboring under the hall
lucinations that they had come up with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30

Nor can Secretary Wilson, of the
federal department of agriculture,
scarcely pose as the originator of the
idea that the production of an odorless
skunk would be most desirable. This
same thought has undoubtedly oc-
CURED to every man who has had the
occasion and likewise the misfortune to
mix intimately with one of these pesky
critters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30

Shipping produce from the farmer
to the consumer direct and through
the medium of the parcel post seems
to have attractive possibilities in the
way of cutting down the price of food
stuffs. This system is practiced ex-
tensively in foreign countries. In the
British Isles they even go to the ex-
tent of sending fresh fish by mail
from the coasts to individual custom
ers in cities more than a hundred
miles distant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
The Wrong One.

Johnny" said the mother, as she
vigorously scrubbed the small boys
face with soap and water, didn't I
tell you never to blacken your face
again? Here i've been scrubbing for
half an hour, and it won't come off"
sI-I-ouchp' sputtered the small boy;
It amt your little boy. I-ouch! Use
Nose, de colored lady's little boy
Ladies Home Journal.
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That $62,5OO which

That $62,500 which J. Pierpont
Morgan paid to the half-dozen attor-
neys who were supposed to look after
his interests at the time of his exam
ination by the money trust Investigate
ing committee, was certainly easy
money for them. All that they had to
doAwas to look wise. Mr.. Morgan was
quite competent to take care of him
self on the witness stand and he did
all of the talking for the party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30

If ]. n. Dolley, chairman of the Re-
publican state committee, has knowl-
edge that the count of ballots in con-
nection with the gubernatorial contest
in certain precincts was accompanied
by fraud of the most open and motor
iously fragrant character" it is his
duty as a citizen of Kansas to name
such precincts and present the proof
of the frauds
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DAFFYDHS
BY L. NOALL-

If you were entrusted with a secret
would it be right for you to telephone?
ooh, thank you so much, Central. I
felt sure the line was busy.)
If the barn-loft is high is the silo?
(Sentence him for life, Judge. If he
outlives that, wen hang him.)
When a train goes into the ditch is
the engineer?
(Put little more sand on the track,
Roh We're sliDpinzl