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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the chicago News.1

From the Chicago News.1
Posing as a good example Is no easy
job.
him all you have.
Lies may fool few people, but the
truth fools a great many.
French self-taught is usually confined
to French self-understood.
The coat may not make the man, but
lawsuits make the attorney.
When some doctors disagree the patient
has fighting chance for his life.
Small favors are always thankfully Te-
ceived, but often unthankfully remem-
bered.
Occasionally man has nothing to s4y
on a subject because he knows all apSut
it.
In addition to the criticism he is en-
titled to, every man gets lot that he
can't account for.
A spinster thinks it's up to her to take
a bachelor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS she may
not get a chance to take him at ALL
When a young man sits ten feet away
from a girl and calmly informs her that
she is his first and only love she can
bank on his veracity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
AYHAWKER JOTS

One of the advertisers in the Cawker
CITY Ledger has a mice male pig" for
sale.
An ignorant man, says the Belle
Plain News tries to cover 1t up D.
using big and unheard of words.
Editor Harris. the new editor of the
Rossville Reporter, is merely slmph-
I'VE spell it 'brot,' - he explains, only
when it would mean RESPECTING the hne
If spelled correctly.
1t is a waste of time to throw stones
at every dog that banks, advises the
Spring Hill New Era. Nine times
out of ten, to bark is the only thlns
a dog can do, and one can easily az
ford to ignore an empty SOUND.
One of the paragraphs that never
gets too old for the editors of the
Kansas weeklies to use runs like this;
Have YOU sent that little check to the
printer? He needs it badly just ABOUT
this time of year." Nor do any OF them
even take the trouble to credlt II u
''Ex.''
"A citizen of Kansas remarks the
Jennings Echo, who is not willing tic
obev the ten commandments, should De
in the penitentiary And If all the
people in Kansas who do not OBEY tne
ten commandments were sent to the
nenitentiary all of the people in Kan
garbs.
Arthur Riddle, of the Minneapolis
Messenger. presents this prose-poem on
..rrhe Harvest Moon: In poetry the
harvest moon is diligently shining, ano
pouring down its mellow beams upon
the kalsomining of garden wall ana
barnyard fence. inspiring love and elo-
ouence, while maiden ears in inno-
cense to counting are inclining. On
vtne-clad porch, by swinging gate, the
farm hand does his wooing; beneath
the barns big spreading caves are
pigeons softly cooling; and in the kitch-
en- Farmer Hicks is reading up on pol
itics, not even dreaming of the tricks
that Cupids up and doing. However
that sweet picture lives but in the
poets fancy. At harvest time in real
true life you don't see Jed and Nancy
a-leaning on the fence to spoon just
cause it is the last of June and
cause a big old harvest moon is WORK
ing necromancy. Not on your life
they're snoring like a half dozen
Ouakers. They've baked, in dreams,
ton of bread, and shocked thousand
acres For when you've wrestled with
the wheat all day in Kansas summer
heat that moonlight story is a cheat
the bards are nature takers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

the room" says he, sis that which
streams out to the ear of the spirit in
many an exquisite strain from the
hanging shelf of books on the opposite
wall. Every volume there is an inStru-
ment which some melodist of the
mind created and set vibrating with
music, as flower shakes out its per-
fume or a star shakes out its light.
Only listen and they soothe all care.
Through tho third door one enters
the field carefully thinking. for With
out exactness in word-va1ues there can
never be exactness Of thought-value.
The acquisition of new words Is the
only means of growth and ideas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
IN AN OLD BooKsTALL.

Here for a song you may command
Old books, we'll thumbed and hoary;
Along the grimy walls they stand,
Tones of immortal story.
And out of reach, on loftier shelves
Beyond our small ambitions
And slender purse, dwell by themselves
The coStlier first editions"
There let them rest till Croesus comes;
We really do not need them,
Content to banquet on the crumbs,
We buy our bookS-and read them!
The one that bears the marks of use,
Back broken, worn and shattered,
Is dearer that its leave are loose,
Its poor frame rent and tattered.
This grim old keeper of the stall
Tends these dead things in leather
And sheep and cloth and parchment-a1l
Close sepulchered together;
And few, alas besides ourselves
Who prowl about the portals,
Seek out along the dusty shelves
The names of these immortals.
Here where the city's life goes by,
Where wheel and wagon rumble.
Wrapped in their cerements they lie,
The lofty and the humble.
Dust unto dust-but from their sleep
Come bright, immortal flashes;
Their spirits into being leap
From out their crumbling ashes.
They are not dead, these silent tones;
They die not, save in seeming;
Far from these bookiSh catacombs
They fill the world with dreaming.
And each that some small message gives,
Or makes for high endeavor,
Puts off mortality, but lives
And works it's will forever
Joseph Dana Miller in New York Week.
ly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
RY THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARsoNs-


After taking a slant at the maps,
we have discovered a way for Bryan to
get back home without accident.
Thusly: B. & o. and associate lines
to Chicago. Thence O choice OF Bur
lington or Rock Island to Omaha. BY
this route he may avoid Missouri.
One thing against the good roads
movement is that the farmers can
make more money hauling autos out
of mud holes than they can by stop
ping work long enough to fill the muo
holes.
There are nearly 100000 Irishmen
in the United States, according to sta
tistics and it is cheering news. II
we have any trouble with foreigners,
the Irish can chase them out of the
country with Irish confetti.
Take a good look at the picture OF
become vice president, and If he does
you will never hear of him again.
For, as some truthful wop, (may-
be it was this department, in days
agone-we can't remember,) said IN
part: There are different ways OF
dropping out of sight. Some nike 1or
the everglades, and others accept
nomination for vice president
buy any Kaw baseball stock below
par, you had better get busy.
Be-Kaws-that offer of field against
Kaws'' is to be erased from the board
at an early date.
The principal charge against Fed
eral Judge Hanford, of Washington
seems to be that he didn't always take
1.-The same"
Mixing drinks may not be a mall
feasance in office, but it is grounds for
suspicion.
Richard Harding Davis waited only
a month before annexing a new wife,
and wrote but little in the interim. 1t
seems impossible for a novelist to get
along without a wife. Maybe he has
to marry a woman to get her to read
and correct his manuscripts.
Those who hoped the convention
was a thing of the past, are doomed
to disappointment. 1t will take quite
while and a long post mortem Tor
Col. Bryan to explain why, If the vote
of Ryan, Belmont ct al made Champ
Clark an outlaw and criminal the
same vote, when sold to Hon. Wilson
was All Right.
Wilson received the news without
emotion. 1t may be remembered,
however, that the visible supply of
emotion was exhausted on the As bal
lots.
some misguided enthusiast proposed
three cheers for Wilson. The answer
sounded like this:
i -!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The biggest thing in the world is a
declaration If independence. 1t is
the one escape from the great god
precedent, whose devotees are fanatics
and bigots. 1t is strange that it
should take courage to flee the bloody
boulevard down which this Jugger-
maui is wheeled periodically to the
destruction of those who fall in its
path, but it does. So strong is habit
of serving and suffering and dying,
fruitlessly and without purpose, that
it has become the most natural feat
ure of human behavior.
they become time sanctified and dust
deified. When this happens, their
only functions are to crush individual
ity and rob the world of so many po-
tential captains of progress. Let a
precedent outlive it's usefulness and it
is a iuggernaut, propelled upon its
mission of death by the shoulders OF
its slaves who call it blessed, while
better blood than theirs loses itself IN
the thirsty dust of barren oblivion.
It is a dead thing, hideous, horrible.
and helpless, save for the unreascn-
ing passions of it's devotees.
This is the thing that the indepen-
dent escapes. In the path of the Jug
.ernaut there's naught for him but the
lot of the devotee or martyrdom. But
the juggernaut rolls only in beaten
tracks. In the untried ways peyoho
the pale of custom, in fields unguesseo
by the unluldSlHdIINC - 49,
works for fearless hands and new
prizes for those who dare. Here one
NAV work out his own methods ana
make his own rules. He is his own
master in these regions, for none but
he has conquered them, and none but
he may speak with authority. Custom
comes not to tie his hands, nor prece-
dent to crush him. He is loro OF an
be suryevs-to attain he needs but to
see and to dare copyrighted 1912
nv w E. WillianS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
HUAOR or THE DAY

''It is my ambition to go to legislature"
Huh. That isn't an ambition; it's dis
sease."-Satire.
Ben hunting, Ell? Any luck?" Eyes. L
got back safe and sound."-Laughter.
why don't you give your wife an ;. J.
lowance" II did once and she spent II
before could borrow it back."-Washing-
ton Herald.
Every man is the architect OF his own
fortune-but few get beyond the plans
and specifications for lack of site -
Judge.
Waiter. this egg is not what
it should be. Waiter (absent-mindedIy)--
New York is full of temptations. sir
satire :.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
KANSAS COMAEET
THE VALUE OF SMALL. cITIrs

IH VALUE OF SMALL CITIES
MANY people have an idea that a
Elliase or small city is nothing but a
center to which farmers NAV ro to
buy few groceries and other Goods
ana then hurry home. That is an inn
perfect and one-sided view TO take
Ihat such place is a business center
Lor surrounding country is true but
ICES not cover all the ground As a
matter or fact the village or large
town OF few hundred or few thousS
anu people has many advantages which
iarger places do not have. The vii.
lase IS social and religious center
20 oeeree that large city cannot
a,oss'y De. IN 1t there is a large
amount OF sociability; people meet NOT
as strangers or mere acduaintances
Dut as friends and neighbors. There
lore the naturalness and ioy 1inconf,n-
eo or Its social functions is in refresh
.nts contrast to- the artificiaIity and re-
Snrdlnt SO frequently seen in city life
Wnat Is true socially is also true
,IioIaliy. Doubtless the moral atnos-
pnere or any place might well he i'm
proved, but there is no disputine 4he
aact tnat the moral tone in the Small
ca,S+ - purer than that Of the Large
ers OF populations, and that tho
temptations before the young neonie
correspondfngly less. Again. the
rural constituency is a place ~ bor,as
ana not Hats and boarding houses In
80 tS1ct leS the chief reason for rt,rar
moral atmosphere, for whereas homes
S EoliserVe morality, flats and hotel
NE nave a tendency to weaken n = Tn
an these things the value of the viii
Idge and small city as being sor,a-
tiins more than a kind of trading
point must be admitted. 1t is there.
Iore the duty of every citizen of tbe
piace to earnestly further its hest ;n
G1srests IN every just way.-Norton
~ MANY USELESS OFFICIALS
an exchange says that If state snd
SEouity OFFICIALS would apply the sane
KIND OF care and scrutiny tn tbair
pupic a11a1rs that is applied to Their
own private business a great deal ~
econoIny would be the result This is
ruin mat is apparent on every
n Eo. We have too many useless 20,
Llclals and too little regard for the
pain OF oIflce. If political lines could
oe wiped out and a competent set ~
men elected to have direct charee 81
state and another set of count1 af-
Ialrs' 1t would mean a great ssvins
as compared with the present yvav ~
eISctlng lot of politicians TO OFFICE
whose only qualifications are that
tney can corral the most votes-esroifh
County Farmer. 'iiii'n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t takes more than a strong grip
to grasp an idea.
n y
Misery may love company but the
latter seldom reciprocates.
y n u
Few of the really funny sayings
come from the professional humor-
istc.
There's a reason for everything put
some of them are mighty poor ones.
y = n
No girl worries much about freckles
if some one has told her they are be-
coming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

In all likelihood, there won't be
much enthusiasm in the Roosevelt
camp over the resolution that has
been presented in congress by Senator
Works of California. It calls for an
investigation of the recent campaign
contributions and expenditures that
were incident to the pre-conventfon
campaigns. And Senator Works hap
pens to be a Republican progressive"
too Still there are a few of these
''progressives'' like Hadley, and Borah
and LaFollette who are actually on
the square in all their political en-
deayors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

Is this aviation game worth the
price that is being paid? America s
first bird woman to obtain an aviator's
license fell to her death after a brief
career. An aviator who was sailing
with her as passenger was also
killed. On the next day Melvin Vani-
man and four companions met a
horrible death in the explosion of the
dirigible with which they had been
planning to attempt flight across
the Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IFrom the New York Press.J
If a man could go fishing for good pay,
he'd hate it.
Most worry over what's coming can
stop when 1t comes.
A woman smiles from force of habit and
cries for real fun.
After about the sixth child a man quits
being proud of them and begins being
sorry for himself.
The reason a girl can fool her father
about how she doesn't care for men is
she couldn't If her mother didn't help
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NoALL.

If it was caught in a corner would
the Fourth of July?
(Boom! Boom!I Boom!!! This is
a safe and sane one.)
Is a politician also a blacksmith
because he cam make a bolt?
Orally round the flag, boysi
Does most of the plumbing in res
taurant5 consist of feedpipes2
(There's some mistake here waiter.
I've found an oyster in this stew.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
HOME: NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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away frum hon-c during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
ten cents week o. thirty cents g
month Thy nail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State journal VIII be
to YOU Hike a Tally letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping cxDcnScS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

that he had been following him and
Roosevelt for many years, and the
Nebraskan replied that if he kept it
up he would soon be ross-eyed. 1t
is therefore apparent that Mr.. Bryan
hasn't any idea that he stands for the
same things that Mr.. Roosevelt does.
Maybe the Logan county gentlemen
are more expert than the general run
of men in riding two horses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

Like other men of more or less
prominence, Colonel Roosevelt prob
ably prays occasionally to be deliv-
cred from certain friends who thrust
themselves upon him. Timothy L.
Woodruff, the Brooklyn politician,
who is famed chiefly for his vari-coI-
ored vests, has elected to toot a horn
in the new party's band.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

Hypothetical questions no less than
5000 words long are being submit
ted to the alienists in the Thaw trial.
And the experts employed by the state
to help keep Thaw in prison answer
g1ibly and promptly with three words:
HE is insane" There are many jokes
in the course of the administration of
Justice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

Ct shall. of course, continue to
stand for the progressive nomina-
tion,' said Colonel Roosevelt in the
course of his comment on the nomi-
nation of Woodrow Wilson. Governor
Stubs insists that the Colonel is al
ready the regular Republican presi-
Dental nominee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
FROM OTHER PENS
BUMPER CROPS OLE rn1r1r

En- CROPS OF FRUIT.
The mouth need not water in vain
Tor peaches-the luscious pink and
golden varieties from the Ozark region
or the more familiar variegated play
or colors from Georgia-seeine thai 8.
can Tor 5000 refrigerator cars comes
simultaneous with demands from
Georgia that 5000 of the same sort of
vehicle be dispatched forthwith to that
state. Heretofore the Georgia peach
INDUSTRY has suffered losses owing to
InaDlIlty to secure an adequate number
OF cars, but since a year ago the rail-
roads nave increased their facilities
and shippers have no complaints to
make on that score. The yield will
approximate 100000 crates. averag-
Ing 81 crate to the growers direct,
$2,5OO,O0O in cash. 1t is claimed for
the Georgia peach, by way of excel
lence, that never before has there been
such uniformity of size, nor have IFS
firmness and quality ever been sur
passed. The Ozark fruit growers have
already picked up a million dollars
from the greatest strawberry crop ever
marketed, and now are picking and
packing peaches in quantities that will
bring in several millions more. After
the peach harvest tomatoes and other
vegetables will begin to move, the
season winding up with the largest
and finest grape crop the houn' dawg
district has ever known. Besides the
car orders from Georgia and the
Ozarks, the apple growers in the va
kima valley are assembling an army
of pickers and another lot of 5000
refrigerator cars preparatory to TAX
ing 100000 boxes of fruit from the
trees and sending, it to the eastern
markets, for which about $7,000,000
will be realized. The Delaware peach
crop has not reached a state of ma
turity warranting a safe estimate of
its proportions, but if it turns out to
be of the bumper class reported from
other important points, no apprehen-
repetition of the near famine in fruits
that prevailed last year.-Washington
Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

Orozco is reported to be ready to
quit and eager for terms of peace. 1t
will be a fortunate day for Mexico
when all the rebels against lawfully
chosen and constituted government
think more of their personal safety
than of the national treasury and fat
official sinecureS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

1t is fair to assume that the Chi
cago Tribune's insistence that the Re
publicans of Illinois are turning en-
masse to the new Roosevelt party is
no more in line with the facts than
was it's prophecy that Colonel Roose-
welt would have GA votes on the first
ballot at the Chicago convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

It is difficult to figure out how the
New York World can properly en-
thuse over the nomination of Mr.. Will
son without saying a nice word or
two for Mr.. Bryan, whose implacable
enemy it has been for sixteen years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

Every day should be q Booster day
at the ball park, as far as attendance
goes, as long as the Kaws continue to
put up the brand of high class ball
they are now playing. Get out and
root for the home team. That will
encourage the players to drive the
iiYx away
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
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The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news IS received In The State Jodr-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
THE BLIND WHO SEE.

Let those persons who lament over
the unkind knocks of fate take heed
to the example set by the Rev. Will
more Kendall, who, though blind. has
just accepted a pastorate in Oklahoma
at $1,000 a year. pity the blind" he
says, lis obsolete. An infinite num-
Der of professions are open to the man
or woman who cannot see." He has
proved his words by supporting HIM
self since he was eighteen. He went
to Chicago two years ago with fifty
dollars young wife and a child.
During that time he has furnished a
home, has a library worth five hundred
dollars and a bank account besides
meeting all the expenses of his edu-
cation. There is absolutely no ex-
cuse,'' he declares, "for blind man to
beg on the streets. One of the most
successful statesmen in Chicago Is
blind. and there are a number of well
known musicians there who cannot
sec" We might add to Mr.. KendalI's
case the remarkable example of pluck
exhibited by the blind senator from the
state to which he is going, Senator
Gore. Where there's a will there's a
way" says the old saw. It's truth was
never exemplifed in more striking
manner than in cases where the blind
have conquered the ban set upon them
by nature.-New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

enthusiasts, styling themselves as pro-
gressives, have attempted to organize
a unit of a new party that is to be
committed to the principles advocated
by Roosevelt and Bryan. Judge Ben
Lindsey told Mr.. Bryan at Chicago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

In all probability the daughters of
Woodrow Wilson are already plan
ming the gowns they will wear at the
White House functions to be given
by their father
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

And not a few of the prominent
Democrats are now feasting on crow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

Candidates will now get out and try
to make two votes grow where one
grew before. H
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

After taking a slant at the maps,
we have discovered a way for Bryan to
get back home without accident.
Thusly: B. & O. and associate lines
to Chicago. Thence q choice of Bur-
lington or Rock Island to Omaha. BY
this route he may avoid Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

One thing against the good roads
movement is that the farmers can
make more money hauling autos out
of mud holes than they can by stop
ping work long enough to fill the mud
holes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

Take a good look at the picture Q
Marshall, of Indiana. He is liable t
become vice president, and If he doe
you will never hear of him again.