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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.1
The life of a good woman is living
sermon.
It takes a genius 70 play the fool and
make it pay.
Riches do not make a man happy: it
is what he gets out of them
All women love lover-but most mar
ried men feel sorry for him
In the matrimonial game there are lots
of kisses and many scratches.
Eventually every woman discovers that
her mirror isn't what it once was
The more relatives a man has the
easier it is for him to appreciate his
friends
There is no reason why woman
shouldn't be interested in business-if it is
her own.
Most men would rather give their wives
credit for what they do than to give them
money.
The man who is satisfied with himself
never worries on account OF his neigh
boris estimate of him.
When people begin to say to a woman,
How young YOU are looking, its a sign
she is getting old
If a leap year girl has money to burn
it isn't difficult for her to find young
man willing to furnish 3 match.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
ADVERTISING TALKS


The advertising manager Of a western
store recently announced publicly that
he did not believe advertising represen-
tatives of publications had any authority
that the Associated Advertising clubs and
other organizations Of advertising men
could not accomplish anything I'm sup
pressing dishonest and fraudulent adver-
tising-that they were employees without
any influence.
Such an opinion is a reflection upon the
thousands Of publishers who employ ad-
vertising men and upon advertising men
themselves. including himself
A good. sincere. intelligent advertising
representative has the confidence Of his
publisher. He and his publisher work in
harmony.
They may not always agree on all
issues but they agree most OF the time.
The right kind of publisher and the
right kind Of an advertising representa-
tive are a unit on policy, and the ao-
vertising man has the same measure OF
influence with his publisher as the man
aging editor or business manager or cir
culation manager or advertising manager.
In many publication offices. as a matter
Of fact, there are frequent conferences
departments. Why? To perfect the or
ganizatiOn, OF course.
/ know OF no publsher-no business man
who is unwilling to listen to sugEes-
lions from his associates. No man is A
good general who has not good lieuten-
ants to help him out
Our western friend wants to wake up
The advertising representative has IN
fuence-he has authority. His publisher
backs him up 10 the limit IneIe Is CO
operation If our western friend doubts
it, how can he account for the many
publishers throughout the country who
are Joining their advertising representa-
tives in the battle for clean and honest
advertising
] know several newspaper offices where
every advertising representative IS thor
oughly familiar with the papers policy
and where he has auth GRITTY to decide the
biggest kind Of propositions without even
submitting them to the management.
OF course, these advertising represen-
tatives are honest, intelligent. enthusiast
tic men and know their business.
CTo be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
HU1AOR or TIE DAY

Jacl1-Weil. old man, she has accepted
me and named the day That's a load on
nv heart. Married Friend-Yess now the
load is on your shoulders.-Boston Trans
cript.
whats the trouble with the maids?"
Servants are so silly. Seems the maid
who has charge of Fido has been snub-
bling the maid who takes care OF the
Washington Herald
Mans inhumanity 20 man makes count
less thousands of dollars.
"A horse is the most sympathetic Of all
animals" How do you make that out2'
Because he is always so responsive to
cry of 'Whoar baltimore American.
'Gunnifer boasts that he has the cour-
age of his convictions" We'll. 1 guess
he has. 1--WE never heard that he asked
anybody 10 circulate a petition to get him
pardoned. Judge.
ssPudgers said a mean thing about
TeWksley last night" What was It,"
He said IL would sap Tewksleys intellect
to write the book for musical comedy"
Birmingham Age-Eerald.
Yeast-He's spent a fortune, you know,
on irrigation. Crimsonbeak-Is that soi
Land or tlaroat2-Yonlxers Statesman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

ut amt no use to grurnble and complain
It's just cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends
Why rains my choice"
james Whitcomb Riley.
There passed our house the other day
a man in a cart leading two horses.
One of these horses was hanging back
with all his might and main, fussing at
the bit and altogether having a most
terrible time. And, of course the harder
he pulled the worst it hurt him, and ev
cry now and then the man In the cart
had to yank the rope to get him along
at all.
The other horse was being hustled along
at the same pace, of course but he never
Jagged at all. and consequently mis- Dir
wasn't pulled, and he looked quite COM
look cheerful, detected, or cross. If you
don't believe they have expression, it's
just because you never really looked at
them.
suppose you could see this paragraph
coming before you reached it, but, really.
wasn't there a perfect analogy in that
Fate and circumstances lead all
along at a certain pace We've got to 20
not. Fighting at the bit doesn't help a
mite. 1t simply makes US uncomfortable
and reminds US that we are being led.
Whereas, we might trot along like the
cheerful horse and pretend we were GO
ing Just where we wanted to anyway.
And yet all the livelong time some folks
drag at rhe DIT, AurL themselves ana make
themselves just as uncomfortable as they
know how
1T seems to me that the very biggest
lesson of life is this-that happiness does
not lie in passions, possessions, or power,
or the lack of it in the lack of these
things, but happiness is just state of
mind.
ne pleasures of gratified desires Of any
kind pass just as the SNOW upon the
deserts dusty face, lighting little hour
But the happiness of a contented mind.
of A mind determined to be contented
never passes
what's the use Of dragging at the bit
and making the journey one perpetual
protest? Isn't it much better to be ike
the horse that knows he has to be led
and Just trots along cheerfuIly2
Really, can't see how there can be
two opinions about that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
QUAKER NIEDITATToNs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.l
A delicacy is merely something the doc
tor forbids US to eat.
Some people are so lazy that they won't
even indulge in guesswork-
All may be fair in love and war, but IN
fortunately it isn't in weather.
A fellows credit must indeed be bad
when he can't borrow trouble.
wouldn't it be fine if we could only pay
board as easily as we can look that way?
Many a fellow gets that tired feeling
after he has annexed rich father-in-
law.
Every man must take a certain amount
Of back talk from his own conscience
The average woman's ambition seems
to be to look younger than she IS and
to act younger than she looks
''Old age is the evening of life" re-
marked the Wise Guy. Then suppose
second childhood must be the morning
after" suggested the Simple Mug
Hoax-''I wonder why Tightwad all
ways wears those salt-and-pepper su1ts?"
Joax-'.I suppose because a s2lt-and-pe9-
per suit should be good for two seasons. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
KANSAS COMMENT
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS OFTEN.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS OFTEN
There Is a popular saying to the effect
that Opportunity knocks at a mans door
once, and. receiving no response, departs
and returns no more. The saying is good
poetry but poor sense. Opportunity
knocks at a mans door every hour OF his
life; If 1t neglects him while asleep, II
knocks twice every hour he is awake; a
dozen times an hour, in every mans life.
there is opportunity TO perform an act
that will advance him a little in the
esteem Of his associates, and at the same
time advance his own best interests
Most men hope to make fortune by
some big stroke of luck, whereas it IS
well known that fortunes are made by
saving a little every day. Likewise most
men are waiting for Opportunity to APP
pear, and knock down their doors. whereas
Opportunity is always hammering away
at your door as persistently as a wood
pecker knocks on a telephone poie.-Ed
Howe in his Monthly Magazine for jan
uary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few men are as happy as they
make out they are.
X =
Even the carrying of tune is too
big a burden for some people.
X X
There's nothing particularly salts
flying about pleasant memories.
X y
A large pocketbook is no sign that
there's a big bundle of money in it.
X
If many women's hearts were large
enough they'd make excellent cold
storage plants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
by TIE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS

From his kilograms to T. r., one
might gather that Stubs has extended
his territorial limits; he used to be
content with delivering the vote Of
Kansas, but now he is delivering the
signed and sealed vote of the Amer
lean People,
And now that poll has been taken
of Washburn academy, nothing is left
to straW-Vote on the gubernatOrial
choice except the mission clock squad,
the egg beaten brigade and the va
cuum sweeper corps.
Dawson's efforts to convince that
his distaste for excessive interference
is not political frame-up, is begin
ming to receive some credence- The
peacemakers may as well seek other
employment.
Dr. Webster, of Illinois, who remov-
ed a matrimonial encumbrance, is now
known as 2,419; the Massachusetts pro-
fessional man who performed a like
But our medical and theological col
leges are turning out other profession
al men to fill their places.
FOSSILS CRY ROOM. This head
line, in the Kansas University paper,
does not, as you might suspect, intro
duce a story to the effect that citizens
of Lawrence have petitioned for an
eAl0uSIOu OIL the corporate II
means that the K. U. museum is too
small
Bryan is trying to defend woodrow
Wilson, which means that Bryan is O.
man of exceptionally broad mind, or
else he has not seen the cooked hat
letter written by Prof. Wilson.
The show advertised as a power
full and thrilling melodrama of the
present day. usually finds few va
cant rows in the front end of the par
quet.
The man who, in life, enjoys the
reputation of having an iron Will
may die with the assurance that the
heirs and lawyers will break it.
Nothing was ever definitely settled
by arbitration; the only sure thing is
a trimming for one of the contestants.
Maybe that is the reason a lot of peo-
pie are trying to force certain candi-
dates into the race.
And as for that moth eaten joke
about the person who eats pie and
peas with a knife; no real rube ever
did it when there was a. spoon on the
table
He who ten years later meets the
woman who refused him, feels like go
ing out and getting All Lit Up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL-.

If the opera stars knew that Sehu-
manu- eink didn't care a Rapp for
her husband would William Tell?
(YOu know; 1 know; Reno.)
If a hound pup barked at a Taft
delegates would Oyster Bay2
fCan the finance committee, I'm
broke.)
If ItaIy's navy has beaten Turkey 3
what has a derelict2
(Hand me a swatter. There's a dy
In the oinfment-3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
IFrom the New York Press.I

TF'ron the New York Press.I
Girls have a lot of sense to be able to
make so much out of nonsense.
Men who want to be heroes would do
much better just being sensible.
Truth has to make up a good deal to
appear at its best, just like some women
The more knowledge a woman forgets
the more Of it she seems to have than
her husband
The man who earns his salary is able
to save some of it: the man who gets it
without earning it spends it all before he
gets it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

Only Ssss.SS5 has been subscribed by
the people of London for the establish
ment Of a 7. NJ. c. A institution there
that would be proportiUnate with the
magnitude Of the town. The people of
Topeka have subscribed approximately
500. oG0 for the Y. NJ c. A. here and
another $4,000 for the T. w. G. A. Lon
don has a population of more than
100000 Topeka's population accord
sng 10 the last census was trif1e over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

Granddaddy Roosevelt IS undoubtedly
much more delighted at his present op-
portunity to cuddle that few-months-
old granddaughter of his, than he is at
the efforts of his misguided friends to
fierce him into the political arena
against President Taft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

Presumably, when Theodore n. Vail.
president of the American Telephone &
Telegraph company. gave voice to the
opinion that public utilities should be
controlled and regulated by public
authority, he probably had little idea
that the government would consider 1t
necessary to regulate the concern OF
which he is the head to the extent of
applying the Sherman antitrust law
for its dissolution
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

In the same issue of Harper's Week
ly that was published its reasons for
disseminating its support of the presi-
Dental candidacy of woodrow Wilson.
there was a brief paragraph. intended.
no doubt. to make Mr. Wilson feel
bluer than ever. It follows: 'sEarper's
Weekly has supported y candidates for
president. Eleven were elected. The
creditable exception was Grover CIeve-
land in 1885"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

Mr. Bryan shows Enthusiastically every
once in a while that his caliber is of
large proportions. Notwithstanding the
heretofore sighting remarks that Wood
row Wilson had directed at him, Mr.. Bryan
rushes in with all his force to take
sides with Mr.. Wilson in the latter's
imbroglio with Colonel Harvey and Col
onel Watterson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

II Mr.. Roosevelt refuses to make a
statement asked for by Governor
Stubs, the chances appear excellent
that the colonel will be yanked before
q mot unfriendly'' Kansas justice Of
the peace, and compelled to show cause
why he should not make a statement or
20 to TAIL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

S 1t is beginning to look as though a
special session of the legislature would
be necessary to investigate the charges
of neglect of duties and general incom-
potency which Governor Stubs and
Attorney General Dawson are making
against each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

A prominent place is being maintain
ed by the United States in the only
universal peace procession that some
people consider worth while. Uncle
Sans navy holds second rank among
the navies of the world in respect to
tonnage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

5 Governor HadIey. of Missouri. has
Joined the chorus that is demanding
Roosevelt as the next Republican nomi-
nee for president. But the tune this
chorus is singing has a fat tone be-
cause of the attitude of the colonel in
the nrernises
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

Although definite announcements on
the subject are lacking, it is likely that
as soon as spring, lovely spring, lands
with both feet, that wonderful craft
the Steamer Chester, will put on anoth-
er inimitable performance on the wa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

So reluctant are the Manchu princes
20 give up their Jobs that they must be
holding public offices which are in the
nature of private snaps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

Did any one expect that President J.
=. Farrell. of the United States Steel
corporation, would DO anything else
than defend it from the charges of be-
ing a. trust that have been placed at
So door9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

on his thirst as it cost to open the
Gunnison tunnel. and with less results.
While his rose blossoms as the rose,
the breath therefroTn is not perfume
from Paris or incense of India.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Anyhow, it vas appropriate that
Buffalo Jones should finally have been
forced to bite the dust by buffalo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

In all likelihood this spinal meningi-
It's scare in Texas and Louisiana is Of
much Iarger proportions than the facts
warrant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

Newport, r. 7, will Immediately fall
into a decline as a popular gathering
place for New York's smart set It's
gambling dens have been compelled by
public authority to close their doors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25
FROM OTHER PENS

EARLIER NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Why not a movement for earlier ma
tional conventions? Why hold them In
summer when the sun is hot and con-
tending politicians are hotter2 How
many fervent souls have suffered by the
present arrangement Presidential boom
erS have lost both weight ana patience
pulling and hauling for a whole week,
with the mercury in the eighties, and
sometimes in the nineues. Newspaper
correspondents have prayed for relief at
such times Thousands of lookers-on
have wondered why they ever left home.
The season is unfit for the purpose I'm
der the pressure OF extreme neat men
work at a disadvantage intellectually as
well physically. They get hot under
the collar figuratively as well as really
Everybody is on edge. Ardent natures
rise to concert pitch, and the strings OF
judgment are apt to snap.
What experienced observer does not re-
call convention work which might have
been improved by better weather condi-
tons? Who has not seen committeeman
sweating like slaves at the line, and
wrangling the more fiercely because or
the discomfort Who cannot point to an
unwise compromise forced by a stuffy
has not lamented the extravaganza Of
the debates in the open convention, with
the heat moving every tlamboyant wind
TANNER to speech2
1t might be too much to expect a
change as to the circus features Of such
meetings. They, too. initiate against
stunts of the delegates, the responsive
stunts OF the galleries, the blare OF brass
bands, the parading around the hall OF
state delegations whooping It up for local
favorites, cause confusion and throw a
convention of center.-Washington star
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PROTECTION AND PRICES.
1t is something that the free traders
will have to meet and explain that in
free trade England the cost OF living has
advanced proportionately with the in
crease in the United States under sys-
tenn of protection. Figures have lately
been published in England by the CO.
operative wholesale society to show the
rise of prices in - years. Custom differs
widely in food in other things in tho
two countries, but it is shown that what
is called average weekly family
grocery ORDER which would have cost
at wholesale about S1.33 in 1898 would
have come to over S1.50 in 1870 an in
crease Of over u per cent. Five dollars
would have bought so pounds OF these
standard groceries in 1885 but I'm 1910 the
purchasing power of five dollars would
have been only ia pounds. Evidently
something besides the tariff has been at
work to bring about the increased cost
of nving.-Mancheste Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

An irrigation note in the Atchison
Globe: Speaking Of irrigation projects,
as real estate agents do at times, an
Atehison man has spent almost as much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

StelIa-Vvhat causes her fnsomnia2 Belle
She takes so many beauty exercises be-
fore retiring that it is morning when she
finishes.-Harper' Bazaar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

From his kilograms to T. R., one
might gather that Stubs has extended
his territorial limits; he used to be
content with delivering the vote of
Kansas, but now he is delivering the
signed and sealed vote of the Amer
lean People,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

And now that a poll has been taken
of Washburn academy, nothing is left
to straw-vote on the gubernatorial
choice except the mission clock squad,
the gg-beater brigade and the va
cuum sweeper corps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

Dawson's efforts to convince that
his distaste for excessive interference
is not a political frame-up, is begin
ming to receive some credence. The
peacemakers may as well seek other
employment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-25

There is no height, no depth, that could
set US apart
Body of mine and soul of mine, heart
of my heart
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-28

SPORTING DOPE
Johnny Evers made his debut
as Cub manager in a real game
yesterday the transformers beat
ing team of Milwaukee ball
players, 7 to 4.
According to reports from
New York the National Commits
sion is considering a rule intend
ed to end all squabbling and un-
savory gossip about the worlds
series. The money division will
be revised. Under the proposed
plan each member of the winning
team will get 81 900 and the losers
$3.50. The remainder of the usual
percentage in the first four games
would be distributed among play
ers on the other fourteen big lea
que teams. A definite sum will be
set aside for each club, and the
other club owners will participate
in the surplus.
This is clever idea-fer the
owners. With every player in the
two big leagues getting a cut of
the post season money, the own
ers would dangle this bait before
the players eyes, cut their salaries
and force the public which pays
admission to the worlds series
games to assist them in paying
the players. The present method
is all right. There is more in
centive to fight for $4,000 than
for $1,000. Also, when only two
teams can get a crack at the
worlds series melon, there will be |
more effort on the part of the !
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-28

to keeping tickets away from the :
hands of spectators. That is the
only feature connected with the
big games thus far that has creat-
ed any scandal.
The Athletics left for their win
ter trip to Cuba today. Mack ex--
poets to keep them there through
November and December and
have his men in condition for al
flying start next April. Bender.
and Oldring, who were suspend
ed for breaking training rules,
and whose loss had a damaging
effect on the Athletics chances,ss
were taken along.
Mordecai Brown attempted to-
get in communication with Pres.
ident Grayson of Louisville when
the latter was in town Saturday
regarding his sale to the Colonies,
Grayson said he was busy and had
no time to talk to Brownie. The
miner countered by declaring it.
was all one to him whether he
played ball or not
The American association mag
mates, at a meeting here Saturday,
decided to stand pat on the pres.
ent salary limit.
Training A. C. wants basket
Ball games with any 115-lb. team
in the city. Abe Wolf, 606 w.
II street, or Canal go, between.
6 and 7 p. m,
WHERE THEY ARE TODAY
Taft in Washington.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-28
WHERE THEY ARE TODAY
Taft in Washington.
Wilson in Philadelphia.
Roosevelt in Oyster Bay.

The eggs of wild birds are
smaller than those of the same
species of birds when domesti-
Gated.