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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-02
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Inasmuch as there is som ething dark
concealed, why not call him wood
pile" Wilson? suggests the Leaven-
worth Post.
hope, bemoans the Ottawa Herald. that
the severe winter has hurt the curb
stone political orator.
A Bohemian farmer in Republic
county has cleaned UP $4,000 in hard
work in the past few years. notes the
Hutchinson News, and it adds: That s
real Bohemianism.
A Kansas man married girl who
could cook pancakes the way they
should be cooked" reports the Ell
Dorado Republican, and it comments:
If he has good appetite no one will
envy her the job.
"A little winter now and then is rel
ished by the coal yard men," is one
of the few uncopyrighted poems
penned by Walt Mason during the past
couple of years. 1t appeared in the
Emporia Gazette of recent issue.
While Attorney General Dawson is
unsatisfactory to Governor Stubs,
says the Atchison Globe, the fact re-
mains that man may now emerge
from behind the prescription case in
Atchison without being suspected
Theodore Gamble thinks there is one
comfort in being a bachelor, reports
the Jumbo correspondent of the Cimar-
ron Jacksonian. He can do as he
pl6dS6S. lie mas 4d4 2 lou OF nJViS
calves in his house at times during the
worst of the weather.
There is one thing that makes d
Kansas man real Wrathy these days,
says Charlie Finch in his Lawrence
Gazette. 1t is to think that in all
probability that country butter he paid
4 0 cents a pound for during the bad
weather was so per cent spring water
Related by the Potter Kansan: A Pot
ter woman went into Hodges store and
told Mark Compton She wanted some
braid. Just then a mule brayed out
side. THAT kind?" asked Mark. mo"
snappinsly answered the woman, at the
same time upbraiding Mark for his I'M
pudence.
The stork is getting along very well
in Kansas, thinks the Newton Kan
san Republican. Last month there
were 3.106 births and 1879 deaths in
the state, and the births came without
any postal cards being sent out telling
of the beauties Of Kansas as a state
in which to be born.
A young man was reading the Sun
day paper, when he found an item re-
garding a spinster who had just passed
her one hundredth birthday, declaring
she had never been kissed by any one
except her parents. Him." said the
Y NJ How homely she must have
been. winfield Courier.
Says the appreciative editor of the
Cimarron Jacksonian: Arch Locken IS
ono of the most accommodates fellers
I ever saw He timmied around with
the auto sparker of the Jacksonian
engine this week and got it to running.
and in several other ways helped
around the office. passing away,
some of his spare time. When he gets
his pancake lathe on the market we
will buy several and send them to our
friends lie also loaned US shovel
the other day.
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EVENING CHAT
BX RUTH CAMERON.

"Oh. well, don't pity her. I heard
woman say the other day "All her
troubles are nobody's fault but her own.
in it."
1 quote the lady because it seems to me
that her way of looking at peoples trou-
oles is just about as common as 1t is
illogical.
Her troubles are nobody's fault but her
own, and, therefore, she deserves none Of
our pity. Why, dear madame, don't you
see that you are stating the very reason
why the unfortunate one is the most
pitiable creature possible?
Turn the tables. Put yourself in her
place. Suppose yourself, woman
brought up in middle class luxury, never
having been obliged before your marriage
even 10 do q daughters share OF the lam
lily houseworl<, and now trying to support
TWO babies by going out into other peo-
pies homes and doing all kinds of work,
as an acknowledgement you have to
trust those precious babies to a cheap
day nursery. Imagine that you have TO
come home at night. absolutely ex-
hausted, and put the little ones to bed,
get your supper and do your own house
work. Suppose you have had to sell
most of the pretty furniture with which
your bridal home was garnished, and take
two rooms in a cheap house in an ugly
street.
Now, do you think IT would make all
this any easier to bear. to remember that
these troubles had come upon you be-
cause you would persist, despite the ad-
vice and protests of everyone, in marry
4IS d man IN whose veins flowed the
drunkard's blood-in other words, be-
cause all your troubles are nobodys fault
but your own?
Does it make a trouble weigh lighter OF
heavier to have remorse and self ACCUSE
ton added to it2
Isn't it really genuine comfort 10
know that you did the best thing you
could have done. and whatever misfor-
tunes may have befallen you, have come
entirely without blame on your part?
Many people say of Richeson, the Bos-
ton minister who went from one sin to
another, until he ended by numbering
the young girl who had trusted him with
the most refined and machiavelian bru-
tality-"I don't pity him at ALL He had
every chance and he threw them all
away"
I pity him. / can't imagine any more
terrible suffering than he must endure
when he looks back on his career, and
realizes just that. It seems to me that
Silas Phelps. for instance, a fellow pris-
oner of Richeson's. for whom the gov
ernor's clemency has been invoked or
the ground that "he never had chance
is far less to be pitied.
''She made her own bed and now she
can lie in it. 1 don't pity her. is cheer
full way OF disposing of such cases. But
If spity is to have a reasonable founda-
ton on pitiableness, is it a logical at
titude?
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SHUT OFT.


She may be a model mother and a jewel
of wife.
A paragon of pleasing domesticity:
She may know all household science
from the whetting of knife
To menus planned for dinner-time fe-
hcity;
But while these minor virtues win per-
functory regards.
To her neighbors she's a novice If she
can't deal cards.
She may be an ardent worker in the
leading local church,
Take part in all its various activities.
Have missionary fervor and to be fore
most in the search
For sinners lost on perilous declivities
But though to souls benighted she may
furnish oil and wicks,
She's in social outer darkness IL she
can't take tricks.
She may be ready helper at a time OF
pressing need
Be deeply sympathetic and emotional:
The sick ones she may succor, and the
hungry poor may feed,
Remembering them in daily acts de-
votional
But though an angel visitant with pres
ence heaven-kissed
She is lost beyond redemption If she
can't bridge whist!
Frederick Moxon in Lippincott's Mag
azine.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

GFrom the Chicago News.l
An embarrassment of riches-poor rela-
lions.
And a lot of people can't even depend
on themselves
A sensible woman is known by the ac-
quaintances she cuts
Many a man proves his love for music
by refusing to sing
Men who are easily discouraged often
quit before they begin.
A man never fully realizes his fmper-
fections until he is married
Few men are able to keep a clean rec
ord in the pursuit of filthy lucre.
One-half the world has an eye open for
a chance to do the other half.
Look out for the sharp edges OF the
man who boasts of being square.
A man is seldom satisfied with taking
his own part; he usually wants more.
A woman always thinks she has beaten
a man at an argument, but she can't al
ways prove it,
A man may be handy with either his
hands or his feet-and that's the differ
ence between a knoclxer and a kicker.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHTSON GLOBE.

An amateur ought to have to hire his
audience.
It takes toothache to send most people
to the dentist.
Sometimes the caIouses on a man
hands arc made by golf clubs.
A taxpayer knows he is paying for his
rights. but ne isn't sure he is getting
Them
BOYS care so little for personal pulchri-
tude that most of them are proud Of
scars.
When a boy is at work. he spends most
Of his time thinking dinner should be
ready.
People frown on a gambler who takes
it easy. but praise persons who expert
ment with dry farming
Tt is unfortunately true that the man
who is fool enough to carry a revolver Is
apt to be fool enough to use it.
1t is all right to have the courage of
your convictions, but it doesn't pay a
pedestrian to try bluffing automobile.
Peach buds may be blighted, but the
general rule of allowing nothing to hap
pen to the prune crop probably will be
observed.
Some mothers are so anxious to get
their daughters married off, it is a
wonder they don't print card of thanks
after such an event.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-02
ADYER TZSLNG TALKS

The merchant on whom I was calling
stood at a table which were displayed
several mems shirts. The merchandise
man was present, also the manufactures.
Which lot of these shirts represents the
better quality?" l answered, L don't
know; / am no judge Of shirts. When
buy shirts it is up to the salesman TO
give me a good quality. I know the col
ors that best please me and that is all"
The merchandise man said, you arc
talking automatically now. You surely
must be able to judge the quality of these
shirts
I replied, mo, 1 really cannot tell any
thing about them. I haven't time to
study shirts-that IS a business by itself.
! don't believe the average man knows
anything about them, either When men
buy shirts OF any other of their neces-
stiles I am sure they depend upon the
reputation of the store and the integrity
of the salespeople."
The merchant here interrupted and
said: Il think you are right. 1t is really
up to the store and its merchandise de-
and styles of everything sold, and then
it is largely matter of confidence on the
part of customers
Every transaction is based on conf
dence 1t is hardly to be expected that
the average man can accurately judge
the quality of merchandise, so the re-
sponsibility of giving customers square
deal is up to the merchants themselves.
Stores may go along indefinitely and
seemingly prosper, but the time comes
when people say, Il won't buy there any
more; the merchandise I bought did not
give me good service. although I paid a
good price and was told that 1t was ell
When many people talk in that man
ner about a store it IS on its road to
failure.
truth and giving good service.
CTo be continued)
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a Co-OneratIve MIND.

A mining company formed by trade
unionists in alliance with the Farmers
Unior is described in a recent issue
of the United Mine Workers Journal
All shares are owned by unionists;
coal will be mined and hauled by
rnionfsts, and sold to unionists alone.
The company is named the State Coal
Company and capitalized at 5000, 900
The mine which is situated at Erie,
about seven miles form Louisville,
undertakes to furnish fuel on twenty
year contracts at less than current
rates. Years ago John Jarrett want
ed the Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers to own and
operate a plant, so that in their bar
gains with the big employers of the
trade the unions would know the truth
as to market conditions and would
also know more of the employers ad-
Yninistrative dificulties.-The Survey.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
lFrom the Phiiadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Advertising should be timely, especially
the clockmaHer's.
The game laws make no provision for
issuing licenses to office hunters.
Among those who are always looking
for an opening may be mentioned the
sneak thief.
Perhaps we would enjoy better health
if didn't know so much about germs
and microbes.
To acquire the happy faculty OF taking
everything as it comes there is nothing
like dining at a table d'hote.
Every dog has his day quoted the
Wise Guy. Yes, but unfortunately We
can't all be dogs" replied the Simple
Mug.
Hoax-''what would you do If a bill
poster should give you paste in the
jaw Joax-'I suppose I'd feel stuck
up about it,
Tommy-*Pop. what do the dramatic
critics mean by spontaneous applause?',
Tommy's Pop-''It is merely another way
of saying the ushers are earning their
salaries, my SON
Yes. my expenses are pretty heavy
remarked the exhibitor Of trained ami
mails TT costs a lot to take elephant
around the country do you have to
pay excess baggage on his trunk2s' asked
the cheerful idiot.
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merriment. "Tnat scene goes into my
next story she said.
Late that afternoon there came a
most cordial invitation to John
Chandler, Esquire, from Mrs, Brereton
begging him To come to dinner quite
informally and Their accompany Miss
Resale, her husband and herself to
the theater.
The invitation was promptly ac-
cepted, and every one remarked how
especially lovely Rosalie Brereton
looked that night, and how pleased
Mr.. and Mrs. Brereton seemed at the
prospect of What every one knew was
a coming match Copyrighted, 1912,
by Associated Liter airy Fress.)
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There is a little verse in the Bible that
has a Significance in everyday he IL -
this: Ever learning, and never able 70
come to the knowledge OF the truth
That means that one does not reach lhe
truth bv study II doesn't come through
the intellect; one doesn't get 1t by inc
process of logic. It comes to one through
Inc soul. the aspiration, the faith- ~
comes ---ith the desire to be honest pure,
Kind lust It comes with resolution 70
l,a noble and true. Truth comes IN no
other way than through an uphtunB con
Won viii not get It from the bench. the
prInit the faculty chair the book. the
science It will only come through th-
heart in a resolution 10 get into harmony
with Gods beneficent and beautiful iaWs,
and then Il will not come In proposituh
or n thesis. but in a life not IN doctrines,
but in events II f. quite Impossible 20
evolve truth out OF n dispute Error mas
as much chance for self-asseruon a.
truth has. for the latter is no ergo or
formula ,. .t.t,
In the bible. mercy II associated win
truth showing that truth is simply ~
vince quality. not TO he sought by STUDY.
hut nv prayer love and duty. This - the
theology or life. No great man whose
memory the world loves. sought his run
from anv other source He simply hNeo
Il That is the difference between lle
nobility and the significance OF hfe.-ohlo
state Journal.
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HUMOR or THE DAY

He-so Alice said had thick head Of
hair. She-Oh. she didn't mention the
hair.-Boston Transcript
she-Just look at the trouble money can
get YOU into. He-Yes; but look At the
trouble It can get you out of.-Boston
Transcript
Tommy-Pop. what is a monoioEueT
Tommy's Pop-A monologue. my son, ~
conversation a woman carries on VII"
her NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record
'.Ferdy and I parted in anger last
night. he says II may be Tor yeslS a an,
It may be forever. al, know S hs a. hu,
couple of days."-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
First PoIiticlan-Don't you admire
Santa Claus? Second Poiitician-Yes, he
seldom gets caught with the goods On
him.-New York Sun
Much can be accomplished by utilizing
know a woman who read Rasselas while
she was dummy at bridge.'-Pittsburg
Post.
Hewitt-What do you think Of this sur
fragetic business2 Jewett-If II L. car
ried to its logical conclusion it viii re-
suit in woman putting her money IN her
husbands name.-Judge.
Maryland they found her walking the
streets in her underwear. Alicia SOM
nambulsr. OF course. Mary-No; simpy
a woman with no one in the house to but
ton her up.-Harpers Bazaar.
Pelatiah Webster CRASHED his teeth. II
] had dreamed they wanted to erect a
statue to me L would have maze Il IN
constitutional" he snorted. Sadly he
gazed at current specimens OF art.-New
York Sun
Cousin Sflas Creading)-It says In this
here paper that a flea kin jump 1000
times its own length. Uncle Heck-That's
probably why we never hear Of flea
getting run over by an automobile
Puck
Il suppose you always say exactly what
YOU think2'' II try to-" replied Senator
Sorghum, but also try 20 avoid thinking
anything It would not be expedfent FOR
me to say."-Washington Star.
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SAYS UNCLE CAV

Most of us love the limelight rather
than real achievement We are too
prone believe that there is no merit
in battle unless we have fought where
The bullets flew thickest
Spectacular performances have little
to do with success. Fame Eliminates
great deeds, but there are many that
she overlooEs. Success lies in what
we do rather than in what our neigh
bors say about what we do.
If you wouid be of value to the world
and there is no success without such
scrVice-find real work and do it, Pay
no attention to the man who is mani
pulatlng tns calcium. He is only, hui
man, and his judgment is likely to be
bad At most he can only put the
stamp of approval on what you have
done we'll.
What you accomplish doesn't depend
upon public recognition-it depends
upon your strength. skill. determine.
ton and persistence Praise is sweet,
and, if you be well balanced, is
healthy stimulant. but when you sit
down at last to take stock Of yourself
it is what you have done and not what
your neighbOrS say you have done that
counts for that peace which is the fruit
of a consciousness of duty well per-
formed.
If you have an honest ambition to
be of some great account, Fate holds
no greater bitterness in store for you
than to hear appreciation undeserved.
The husks of applause are of little
comfort when one has not garnered
the wheat Of achievement The lime
light turned upon a reputed success
which is really failure only the more
brightly Eliminates a tragedy whose
chiefest mercy is to be forgotten
copyright. 1912, by W. E. Willia1ns.)
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CREDIT WHERE CBEDTT IS DUE.

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT is DUE.
Senator IaFoDette's chief bid for
fame as the compounder of a panacea
that will cure all the ills to which a
government is heir rests in a large
measure on the progressiVenes and eff
ficiency with which the affairs of the
state of Wisconsin are administered.
lie is hailed as the Moses OF state
craft who has led and is leading the
commonwealth of Wisconsin to
higher levels. to levels that are ideal.
And how all such talk as this must
rankle and make sore the hearts of
the many intelligent and capable pub
lie officials of Wisconsin who have
been going about the business of i'm
proving the conditions in that state in
silence while Robert NJ. LaFollette
has been getting all the praise.
Granted that while Mr.. LaFollette
was governor of Wisconsin he sug-
gested many or all of the modern and
efficacious laws Of which that state is
possessed for handling the momen-
tous and veXing public questions Of
the day. Granted that he actually
forced the legislature to take favor
able action on these laws Granted
perhaps, that he actually set the ad-
ministration of these laws into work
ing order OF what would all of this
have availed Wisconsin. Of what force
and effect would be any and all of
! its laws be they ever so model in
form. had they not been applied with
intelligence and discernment during
/ the many years that Mr.. LaFollette
4 has been carrying on his labor of love
for the whole people of the lanh with
/ in the austere walls of the United
4 States senate.
A law, no matter what it aims to do,
no matter how cleverly it is written
or how model may be its form, is not
worth the paper it is printed on, if no
effort is made to enforce it. 1t has no
efficiency unless it is honestly admin
istered by capable hands. Does any
body in Kansas ever give any thought
or credit to the man or men who con-
ceived the principles of prohibition,
or the men who set them to work in
this state2 Kansans have had exper-
fence that the prohibitory law is a
worthless thing, is worse than worth
less when it is not enforced They
/ have had the other experience that il
is decidedly worth while when it is
fearlessly and honestly administered.
And who deserves the real credit for
the success of prohibition in Kansas
on the subject or the men who made
it a success by enforcing it? Examples
of the same sort might be multiplied
indefinitely.
Mr.. LaFollete ig entitled to his just
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GETTING BUSINESS ABROAD.

IL
OF what benefit the reports Of consular
agents abroad are TO American manutac-
turers is not definitely known in the TO-
tai, but the amount Of specific intorinn-
ton furnished OF opportunities for foreign
sales is considerable. Scarcely a number
of the daily consular and trade reports is-
sued is without suggestions useful in one
line of business or another and many OF
the issues contain lists of ten or a dozen
openings for American manufacturers
and contractors, in competition OF course
with houses in foreign countries. MANY
of these openings are in new fields ana,
therefore, the more promising OF con-
tinued business if foOthold Is gained
This business of reporting opportunities
for trade in foreign lands was impressed
llpon consular agents only a Few years
ago by the government. and Is made the
more significant at present by the com
plant in England that that nation mas
the benefit of similar service In Sc
curing first-hand information A London
business man is quoted in a recent issue
of the London Standard as saying
GRADERS can get no sort Of tangible sup
port from either department. whether d.
rectlv from Whitehall or through the
British diplomatic bodies or consuiates
abroad He cites instances OF large
contracts going to other lands, some OF
them to the United States. because OF
this lack of early information Tor brluHh
manufacturers There is more or less
agitation in England on the SUBJECT
Buffalo Express.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

A vain woman is obnoxious enough
but a vain man is more so.
X x -
Men who depend upon luck to help
them on cont often get very far.
# X *
In these days of modernity, a wom-
ans form divine is generally what she
makes it.
=
Did you ever hear of a baId-headei
man who glOried because of that fact?
x y X
The man who puts a chip on his
shoulder seldom has any difficulty in
5nding some one to knock it off.
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Insistence is made that the child
labor bill has been dehorned by the
senate because of the amendment it in
jected providing that mo agent or
representative of said bureau (the
bureau of the department Of commerce
and labor that is to have charge of the
administration of the law shall. over
the objection of the head of the family
enter any house used exclusively as a
family residence" Well, it all depends
on the Interpretation of the phrase
any house used exclusively as fam
lily residence as to whether or not an
almpzG necessary feature OF the law for
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

CFrom the New York Press
Every man in a parade acts if it's
all for him.
A thing that is easy gets very hard just
by becoming a duty
A man thinks he's active in politics
when he knows the names of two sena-
tors
1t takes a heap of conceit for one to
think he's better than his neighbor, and
everybody has it.
A girl learns to estimate men from
studying her brothers and then not to
from studying other girls brothers.
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the wedding out of the evi.- Of child
labor has been nullified. Many houses
used for residences in -he large cities
are also veritable "sweat-shops." where
all the members of the family. includ-
ing the little children, are kept busily
at work. especially in the making Ct
cheap clothing and other garments.
But because a family makes a home of
such plac- that does not necessarily
mean that the house is used exclusively
Tor residential purposes. So perhaps
the critics of this provision of the bill
are a trif1e premature.