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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
VOTE ON IRISH HOME RULE.

The latest tests of the strength of
parties in the house of commons indi-
cate that the present Liberal ministry
will be forced to ask the electorate OF
the United Kingdom for one more vote
of confidence before Irish home rue
can become an established fact. The
majority upon which the government
can depend has nearly vanished several
times in critical situations, and any
day another test of the temper of the
house may GUST the Asquith ministry.
The best informed politicians in Lon
don expect to see another general cleo
ton before the home rule issue can be
finally disposed Of When that test of
public sentiment comes there will be
one of the most bitterly contested
campaigns in the history OF the United
Kingdom.
Recent threats of civil war in Ulster
have done much to shake the conf
dence of weakened Liberals in the
wisdom and tineliness of the policy of
the present government. The Con-
servatives, on the other hand, have
been encouraged by numerous victories
in recent bye-elections and they will
go into another fight with the energy
born of their consciousness that If they
fail again to carry the country at the
polls their last chance Of successful
resistance to the Liberal program for
Ireland will pass away forever.
1t is a prospect for hard fighting
such as Americans, in their most
strenuous campaigns, can hardly I'M
derstand. The intensity of feeling
aroused by the home rule issue is of the
kind which leads to common talk of
civil war in Ireland. The social and
business future of the United King
dom is believed by millions of voters
to be at stake upon the final battle
over the question of self-government
for that island.
When that crisis comes, America, as
heretofore, will give its sympathy and
good wishes to the home rule cause and
the Liberal party, by a very heavy pre-
ponderance of the public sentiment of
the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
EVENING CHIT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

The lawyer for the other side-vou "a
rnelhoer told you about him. he fs that
part OF you that if it is given anv en-
couragement will present the areII1a 81
LOT the other side when you are fhinkine,
9s',it your grievances or other peoples
with me the other night that 7 want -
pass II on to you. ~
me argument was on the subject of an
i "a nelghbor of mine who has no trou-
Die with any of her organs bI1t Is a 1,t,t,s.
of sick nerves 'iS'Alll
~, whenever things do not go just right.
and makes everybody about her Tnisa 81 ~.
oy her gloomy voice and face
o,1 T0w ~ seems to me that If she would
CLly make an effort she could rise above
nervous. eet'lis SO
Said the lawyer for the other side mo
she couldn't any more than VOL co1Id
help feeling a pain in your arm IF Won
had one. Nervous depression is lust as
in sSiS + ywsn thing as pain"
prevented herself from getting INFO s,,cb
nervous state She certainly is to blame
Said the lawyer for the other side
Gould you have helped getting that FER,
I1ole pain in your back when YOU had
70 work so hard last summer? You don't
I IN you ought to be blamed for that,
No" said I, reluctantly. but anyhow
nervousness is not to be compared with
a terrible pain like that"
isn't it?" said the lawyer for the other
sioe. Ihats where you're greatly mis-
taken. Didn't 1 read in something You
wrote that you thought that mental pain
was infinitely worse than physical pain?
Wen that's what nervous depression is:
the worst sort of mental suffering--a
grinding, relentless ache hke-welI like
that rheumatism you said was the worst
thing you ever had. You think it's terri
bic just to see anyone look so gloomy
Wen, how do you suppose it seems to feel
that way?"
There is something in that" 1 reluct-
antly conceded.
Something" retorted the lawyer for the
other side, II should say there was
1t Is sometimes hard to understand and
sympathize with a person when we know
that there is nothing organic the matter
when It's Just case of nerves.
We sometimes feel as If that meant that
little effort on the part of the sick one
would cure her.
In reality such cases mean that the
patient will have to use infinitely more
effort and patience than II there were
merely something wrong with some sin
gle organ.
We think of nerves as intangible things.
but II you will stop to think about II
you will realize that they are Just about
the realest things that can be- the very
acme and center of reality.
So in the future when 1 am inclined to
get out of patience with anyone who is
nervous I am going to remember the
arguments of the lawyer for the other
side.
Will you Join me?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
WEALTHY FOLK WHO ARE WISE.

/ All wealthy people are not fools
anticipates or f1amboyant spenders
Wisdom abides with them, many times
They have quiet virtues instead OF
spectacular follies. Their homes are
held dear; their children are trained
in the sensible old ways. They are
good, plain, practical people.
No mother, earning her own living
and counting every penny, could be
more spartan toward her children
than Mrs. Edna Reakirt, whose five
year-old boy will have a million when
he is twenty-one. Unlike so many
fond mothers in these circumstances,
she hasn't asked the court for big
allowance to bring the boy up accord
ing to his station" She is doing II,
though, in the right and seemly man
ner. He has no allowance to spend
foolishly and thus breed extravagant
notions in him. He is being taught
the value of money by earning it.
He is paid for all the services he
can render himself or others and as
h. is a sturdy lad he makes quite a
few pennies in the course of a week.
Every time he gets up and dresses
himself fifteen minutes before break
fast he gets a penny and it is seldom
he fails. And pennies come to him in
various other sensible ways. These he
does not spend. He puts them in his
bank and when he gets enough he is
going to buy his grand aunt, with
whom he and his mother live, "a
great, big, red automobile
Then there is the case of Vincent
Aston who came into a fortune vari-
ously estimated from SIS, 100000 up
ward a few days ago, when he reached
his majority. This might make him
little chesty; even a bit defiant, for 1t
is more than the strong boxes of many
nations contain! He might, for in
stance, plead his wealth and its cares
as an excuse for skipping jury duty.
Men with a hundredth part of his
money constantly do it and fret and
fume if a stern judge overrules their
plea.
Young Astor, though, has differ
ent and a better idea of good citizen
ship. In this he is like his father who
died like a man and was a man in life.
Here is a letter which tells his posi-
ton. 1t needs no comment:
cit is with pleasure that have re-
ceived your notification of my ap-
pointment to the third panel, sheriff.
jury My father always highly appre-
ciated the honor of being a member
Of such a body and I am glad of the
opportunity of filling the place which
he held"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
NEW sUFFRAGE PLANK.

Mrs. Antonio Girsch of Chicago is a
wise woman; a noble one would be
nearer the truth. She has put a
plank in the equal-rights-to-all plat
form which commends itself at once
to mankind and will be met with
hearty endorsement by all fond wives.
Mrs. Girsch doesn't care to vote.
She has no desire to march in parades,
in mild agitation, or break windows
and fire houses and harry lawmakers
according to the accepted type of ag-
erosion. All she wants is to have
equal privileges with any husband who
swears to love and support his wife.
She is just overlooking with affection
but she could not have the pleasure
of showing it in a practical way by
giving her husband a life of glorious
leisure. He insisted upon working
when she wanted him to stop and so
she flew to a court, the other day, to
have a Chicago Solomon pass judg-
ment on her plea. She wanted An
tonic, her spouse, adjudged a legal
lo afer and then committed to her Gus
tody for life.
ct promise to love and cherish and
support Antonio said Mrs. Girsch to
the court, "if he will only stop work
ing. am wealthy, and Antonio spends
all of the money he earns frequenting
cafes and running around with a live
L crowd.
''He makes life unbearable at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
AYHAWKER JOTy

The federal check on race suicide
that is under way, is a splendid move,
although somewhat tardy, remarks the
Ottawa Herald.
Milady editorial from Atchison
Globe: After looking at Woodrow's
chin we have decided to refrain from
telling him how to run things.
A course in domestic bossism recon-
mended by the Kansas Industrialist:
If your son doesn't think you are the
best and wisest man in the neighbour
hood, it is time you had a session with
yourself out behind the woodshed to
find out just where you have fallen
down.
Chesterfield item from Lawrence:
Some years ago the Journal World
gave the name of the only man in
Lawrence who owned a Prince Albert
coat. The number has since doubled,
DR.. G. W. Jones now has one, so bor-
rowers will no longer have to wait so
long for their turn.
H. G. James, of the Independence Re-
porter is disappointed in Americas
outdoor society game. He says: Golf
is an agency of the devil. 1t can raise
mans hopes higher, dash them sud-
denly lower and cause even a good
man to say more cuss words than any
other one thing we know.
The Mankato Advocate rises to criti-
else: We hear much about ''up-to-
date printing machinery" but as a
matter of fact, more bum looking, ill
made up and poorly printed exchanges
come to our desk now than did thirty
years ago, when a majority of the
country papers were printed on hand
presses and when the typesetting was
all done by hand.
Hereafter all conductors and brake
men on the Santa Fe system will wear
the name Santa F'e" in gilt letters on
their coat lapels, says Charlie Blakes-
ley. The Santa Fe is willing to go to
any expense to make its passengers
understand that they are not riding on
the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific
Or the Rock Island.
A Fifty Years Ago. item in the
Atchison Champion: Small Change
Our city council at its last session
wisely provided for the difficulties
Which all have had to encounter for
so long time from a lack of small
change, by passing an ordinance di-
recting the issue of between two and
three thousand dollars in s. 10, % and
80 cent bills, and a portion of the
amount has already been put in cir
culat1on. 1t is generally received with
eagerness by our citizens The bills are
deposited with the city treasurer and
are paid in exchange for treasury notes
when presented in dollars. Uncle sam
was too slow in getting out his small
change currency to suit our people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News1
Competition is the life of many love
affair.
A woman always looks on the bright
side of a mirror.
The mermaid surely should have stand
ing in swell society.
Occasionally the sense of humor can be
exchanged for dollars.
Even light wine has been known to pro-
duce a dark brown taste.
Many man has had a close shave who
never patronized a barber.
A cat may look at a king but man
with hay fever would sneeze at anything.
When a man begins to abuse his home
town it's time for him to move out
No matter how poor a woman is, she
can always boast of having rich re1a-
tives.
Three comes a silly time in the life of
every man when he attempts to write
poetry.
Instead of going to heaven, most men
will be lucky If they land in a FOOLS
paradise
Look at the bare foot of the average
man and you will see scar where he cut
it when a boy
Perish the thought, CordeIia. The air
ship chauffeur has to use both his hands
in navigating the machine-so what's the
use?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

When not working, and staying at
home. he is the best husband in the
world. I want to take care of him,
and I want you to make him promise
to stop working" That is just what
the judge ordered.
Joking aside, the Chicago jurist is
shrewd judge of human nature and
he did the proper thing. And one can
rest assured that when q little woman
with a hulking husband who makes
her support him by taking in washing,
comes before him he will put the hus-
band away where work is hard and
plentiful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
DAFFYDHS
BY q. ToALL..

If a number of men went to South
America to tap rubber trees would
you call them a rubber band?
ooh, Adam, why did you marry on
your wedding Eve-)
If the head of a circus horse shows
intelligence, what does a side show?
cone at a time, boys, one at a time,
Neoma will give several more dances
tonight.)
If a mans Adams apple is in the
middle of his neck, tell me where's
his Minneapolis?
(Sucking cider through a straw,
ira, la, ira, la-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

HARGE OF HEAVY BRIGADE
Half yard, half yard,
Han a yard onward,
Plunged the bold center rush
Weighing three hundred.
Forward the BALI" he said,
NO man was there dismayed,
Badly the ball was played,
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die,
Follow the husky guy
Weighing three hundred.
Tackles to right of him, Ia
Tackles to left of him, Is
Tackles behind him,
Pounded and Numbered.
Stormed at with college yell,
Over the line he fell,
He who had fought SO well,
Came from the jaws of death.
Back from the mouth OF hell,
All that was left of him,
Left of three hundred.
When will his glory fade?
o, the wild charge he made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge he made,
Honor the whole brigade.
Honor the guy who weighed
Only three hundred.
L. G. Davis in Post Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
HUAOR or THE Dry

able for my husband. SaIesr1s. ne suit
MADAM, but we are not permitted to r ~;
neckties to women who are I1ns " sen
panied by men.-Puck ~ecom'
our son-in-law has a tftIeD sv,
replied the patient father; "but am Is -
6 fee VINO Is ~ furnishing the expensive binas
Buffalo Commercial. auon.-
nav good does 1t do a woman for J..
inan 70 De willing to die for her 81 81
grumbled He might carry a bis ne ne
insurance, you know" she hinted NE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

The city commission law has work
ed wonders in Kansas. But the first
trial has uncovered a dozen weak
nesses. The legislators would find it
profitable to look into the proposals
which will be submitted by the com
mittee representing the Kansas cities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

the tariff early in March and didn't
complete the work until August. If
the Democrats are able to finish their
revision before September, they will
be doing more than the country is an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
RY THE WY
By HARVEY PAR9oHS4

Pip Daniels, ex-one of them. views
with alarm the boob stunt of K. U.
students who assisted in rough housing
the Topeka high school kidlets. PIP
should not take it too hard. 1t was
all right. The Topeka children had
done nothing a-ta1l that day but trim
the Lawrence Highs, and needed a
little more light exercise to give them
students were benefactors, rather than
disturbers.
Dampstiesacktciselsp is a fruit
photograph record backward or add
ing up a column of Turkish soldiers,
one may get almost the same effect.
Mr.. Burbank should utilize some of
his genius in framing up bird that
looks like a Thanksgiving turkey and
tastes like a porterhouse steak. 1t is
needed a blamesight more than is a
thornless cactus.
The next number of the Surgical
Journal should not fail to contain an
account of the Pittsburg miner who
was shot in the back yard. The oper-
alton sfor the removal of the bullet
would be of interest to surgeons.
In enumerating the insomnia-pro-
ducing agents which the city man en-
counters while trying to sleep in the
sweet-singing bossy calf in the wean-
ing pen. A spotted calf with a bari
tone voice can do more to encourage
wakefulness than all the towser-dogs
in a township.
Doc Wiley objects because SO many
people die every year, but if they did
mt, there wouldn't be room for the
million immigrants imported each
year.
Doc Wiley also threatens to run for
president, but not right away. He will
run for president when the people
put human life above the dollar
So there is no rush about getting
out campaign buttons or naming his
cabinet.
The white hope" crop is flourishing
since a recent Chicago incident. Up
to that time, the crop seemed to be
suffering from drought, chinchbugs or
something of the kind.
"As a rule says our fellow GRIM
inal of three columns west of here, |
married men do not go insane" |
Some moth-eaten old batch may now
come forward with the bromide as to |
why married men do not go insane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

According to the Kansas law it is
legal to have mixed men and women
3uries. A law should be passed this
winter abolishing the chance of meet
ing this problem. There would be
more or less embarrassment in locking
up panel of men and women for two
or three days and ordering them to
fight out a verdict
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

tatisticians-persons who have very
little else to do-have it figured out
that the wives of literary men lead a
troublesome life. But how about the
writer's themselves?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

The national association of the Bald
head club of America is in session.
The eastern newspapers, Republican
and Democratic, are agreeing that
John d. Rockefeller should be elected
president. Make it unanimous-but
let's not overlook good positions for
Tom McNeal and Henry Allen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
KANSAS COAMENT
MAIL ORDER Talk.

A Goodland mercantile firm uses a
bid ad in a local newspaper asking the
patrons of the town to bring in the de-
partment store catalogue along with
the items needed and all orders Will be
filled at exactly the same price as
asked by the mail order fellows. The
firm is filling a lot of orders, so 1t
claims. The plan is better for the
farmers and better for the home
merchant who is in position to handle
the business in this way. We dare say
there are merchants who mark their
goods at prices really below the list
asked by the mail order concerns, Eut
who fail to use the advantage they have
by falling to advertise it. That Is where
the Montgomery Ward fellows come in;
they are always on hand with the al
vertisiIig and keep their sham bargains
before the people all the time. IN the
end they have the customers believing
that the bargains offered in the DOCKS
are the only ones of the kind to be mao,
for the reason that they have no chance
to know what their home merchants
have. Naturally the mail order houses
are compelled to work at disadvant-
age for the farmer trade, but this Is
overcome through the fact that the
local merchant spends too much time
sleeping at the switch; he does not
keep pounding at the fact that he is
ready to meet competition, but supposes
that so long as he knows he is in BUSH
ness everybody else ought to know It.
Smith County Pioneer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

The Chicago News suggests that the
man who guesses five out of the nine
members of Wilson's cabinet should be
appointed chief of the weather bureau.
Why not give the weather bureau sta
tions to men who predicted Demo-
cratic landslides2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

TFrom the New York Press.1
woman wants a recipe for politics
just like soda biscuit.
Success makes other men claim most of
the credit for it
What helps a girl to jump across a pud-
die is to be wearing her best stockings.
woman gets more excited about SC
ing to a funeral than a man does to a
poker game.
Some boys are so blind to their oppor-
tunities in college they don't even run
into debt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

A girl in New York is suing a man
because he called on her 1000 times
and then spurned the idea of marriage.
After spending 1000 evenings with her
the man should have known whether
he wanted to marry her or not-he is
right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

In central Kansas the men voted
against the woman suffrage amend
ment. In other words in this rich
agricultural portion of the state the
women had too much to do without
pleading for votes among the men.
Even good crops have their disadvan-
faRaa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
enough.

]. Pierpont Morgan has given a Ii
brary to Trinity College. Mr.. Carnegie
had better get back on the job or his
business of dying a poor man will be
ruined
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

In the United States the Protestant
church has a membership of 22, 0OO,-
600 and an adherency of $4,000, 900,
with a Sunday school enrolment of
100000 it has 10000 ordained
ministers, $4,000 church organiza-
tons, 10000 church buildings with
a seating capacity of $4,000. 900, and a
total valuation of $1,000, 100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
MAKE coon ROADS.

One of the best things that could
happen to this country would be for
every farmer in the county to make
a contract with himself to grade a
half mile of road that runs by his
place and keep it dragged up in shape.
If every farmer in the county would
do this we would have the best roads
in the country and you would never
miss the labor involved. After once
being graded up in shape by the town
ship trustee at the expense of the town
ship it would only require going over
once or twice after each rain to keep
it in fine shape. Several of the promi-
nent farmers of this county have vol
unteered to do this. Each township
should have a drag for them to USE
Medicine Lodge Cresset.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

In the east everyone is complaining
about the hard coal gouge." In To-
peka it is the gas gouge.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

1t will soon be time for the ice men
to announce that ice will be dearer
next summer, either because the win
ter is mild or the product too thick to
handle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

From Paris comes the assurance that
skirts will not be any narrower this
season. Considering the skirts as they
are, this assurance seems hardly nee
eSSary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

Clark Griffith, ball player, has killed
a bear in Montana by hitting it with
a stone. Lucky thing for the umpires
that this is their closed season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

The Democrats propose to plan a
new tariff ~ July. The special ses-
sion Of congress would be held about
April Is, according to their announce
ments. Taft and Mckinley started on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

People die too young" says Dr.
wiley. The doctor is right. And some
thing should be done about it right
away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

New York has 700 miles of water
front. Perhaps that is the reason it
has no use for the water wagon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

The Chicken flip is the latest So
etety dance Toward the end of this
month it will be the latest barnyard
danCa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

One of the exhibits in a breach of
promise suit for $4,000, is a letter
addressed to the plaintiff, beginning
Dear Lambie." Fifty thousand isn't
enough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25

Gaby Deslys says she is not mar
ried. Considering her first name, some
people may regard the announcement
as unnecessary.