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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

There is a man in our town who is
outrageously overbearing and disagree
able to the most patient little wife that
ever lived.
People who know them both often say:
How can he be so disagreeable when she
is SO good? If she were sharp or cross,
that would be another thing. but she is
such an angel I can't understand it,
1t seems to me that the very thing that
puzzles them is partial explanation of
the trouble.
Why shouldn't he be overbearing wher
she is always ready to lie down and let
him walk over her? Why shouldn't he be
disagreeable since he can always reliev e
his feelings that way without any fear OF
comeback?
I am inclined to think that if she were
sharp and cross occasionally, he'd be a
little more careful how he picked on her.
But if she is always an angel of patience.
why shouldn't he be a devil of unlfvable-
ness when he feels like it?
Angels make devils sometimes, 1 think.
and goodness and badness are compl =
mentary to a greater degree than we
realize.
If you will look about you. you will sa9
that the world is full of people who are
cross and folks who let people be cross to
them; children who are disorderly and
mothers who patiently pick up them; bus
who are under spirited; wives who are
outrageously extravagant and husbands
who indulge them folks who are eternally
selfish and other folks who help them to
be so by their self effacement
Now, do these sufferers deserve as
much pity as they usually receive,
long as they help maintain the cause of
their sufferings?
Probably most of them would tell you
that nothing they could do would have
any erect on the offenders. 1 think they
are mistaken
l think great many of these people
who impose on others in one way or
other could be treated by homeopathic
treatment. Homeopathic I mean, as far
as concerns the character of the Dose no-
its size. That is: they should be given
doses of their own medicine.
once upon a time there was a girl VINO
was very disorderly and untidy about her
room Her mother fretted and fumed but
patiently picked up after her, and the girl
grew worse instead Of better Finally she
married a man who not only did not pick
up after her, but was extremely disorder
" himself. The result of this dose Of her
own medicine was that she acquired this
lacking bump of order.
Again woman who was naturally ultra
easy going married a. man who was some
degrees more so. In this case the cure
was even more speedy.
Now wasn't it too bad that the house
mates of these people didn't apply this
treatment years before?
OF course, there are many chronic and
aggravated cases of unlivableness that
even the homeopathic treatment won't
cure but I am sure that it would always
help
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

People who think before they speak
don't talk much.
X
Many piano players kill time in more
ways than one.
4 4
Most of the men who are long on
learning are short on money.
And there are any number of self
made men who haven't done very
good job at it.
If weather forecasters received pay
only when their predictions were cor
rect, most of them would have to work
at something else to make a living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
WHAT IS HOME PROGREsso

We humans are all links of a great
chain: each one is dependent upon the
other, and nowhere is this so true as
in the family relation, writes Edward
Box. in the Septemb Der Home Progress
Magazine. So, home progress if it
means anything means family unity
And that is what we are noticeably
getting away from in our American
life. individuality is a sterling ele-
ment in the life and progress of any
nation, but an individuality that
makes distinct parts of a family, that
breaks family unity, is the exact op-
posite of a healthy tendency. This
does not mean that the child should
become the echo of its father or
mother: a family is only interesting
and progressively vital to each as the
Municipalities of it's members are al
lowed the fullest play and develop
ment. But back of the individual de-
velopment should exist a common
bond: the strong tie of mutually that
stands for individual expression but
always for family unity. The moth
er's part in unity is, naturally, the
most vital, for she is in the home the
greater part of the time. but the ia
theirs part, in his home time, is equal
ly important. Effective parenthood is
always that which works in unity:
where the one supplements the work
of the other. The mother may spin
the cords that weave the chiId's men
tai and moral training: it is the ia
Tiers place to tighten the cords
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
HUNOR or THE DAY

s'What" she asked with a naughty
sheer, would the Garden of Eden have
been without Ever" We'll" he calmly
replied 'it would probably have been
quiet for one thing.''-The Causs-
Fido Might Drown.-Stout Lady-Are
you quite sure you can swim, George7
George-Of course I can. Why do you
ask? Stout LADY, feel so relieved. L
don't know what 1 should do IL Ffdo fell
in the Notwithstanding.
rs your theory making any practical
progress?" Enthusiastically" replied the
Socialist. ALREADY umbrellas, lead
pencils and matches are registered as COM
mon property. "-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicaeo 49,


The early worm fills a long felt want.
The homely girl can act as her own
chaperon.
Many a good farmer never saw an agri-
cultural college.
one way to avoid excitement is to live
within your income.
when a man gets full he is apt to use
a lot of empty words.
More men might get to the front II they
didn't stop to talk.
Sometimes a man who is really hand-
some earns living In spite OF IL.
You may have noticed that people VINO
listen to reason always agree with you
woman thinks it is a sin to do lots OF
things she will coax a man 10 DO
Monkeys never worry, probably because
they live in ignorance of Darwin's theory.
When youns Wi to,e, l.e 80, ~ lp.. ne
by dying.
II a man can't blame any one else for
his troubles he can at least drive himself
to drink.
If you feel that the world owes you =
living it's doughnuts to fudge that yoa
are too lazy to collect it..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
DAFFYDHS
By U. NOALL.

Are some picture frames hung be-
cause of their gilt?
Certainly, Agnes. And so are some
menu
If you want to shake your wife take
a pillow and give her the slip.
CWillie! Get the AK, there's a fly on
baby's dome.0
Just because a husband doesn't beat
his wife does that make him a gentle
man?
Get i'm up He's all cut.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

subsc1 Ibers of the state Journal
away from lloTrc during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents a week or thirty cents q
month (5y all only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out Of town the state journal Wln b9
IN you like 1cily letter from home
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping EXPENSES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

OF course, there is no such thing as
boss in the Bull Moose movement,
and especially in Kansas. But when
William Allen White realized the sig
nificance of the handwriting on the
wall he told the Roosevelt electors to
get off the Republican ticket. And
they got
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Being a good Democrat, there were,
of course, no sore spots on Governor
Harmon over the outcome of the
Democratic national convention. But
he has just congratulated Governor
Wilson on walking away with the
nomination
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Oscar Straus, Colonel Roosevelt's
candidate for the governorship of New
York, has, at least, been sufficiently
varied in his political affiliations to suit
the most fastidious. He was a CIeve-
land Democrat. Then he was a Nc
Kinley Republican and now he's a
Bull Moose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

For a few days, beginning October
Z, the presidential candidates and
their numerous ballyhooers might
just as we'll take to the woods and
get a much needed rest, as we'll as
giving the people one. The worlds
championship ball games will then be
on the boards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

probably continue to be a bit foggy as
long as some of the avowed support
ers of the Bull Moose. who are can
didates for state office, insist that
they have a right to positions on the
Republican ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
THE RECALL OF 11-Dcrs

we have all of US known children fa,.a
some grown people, to keep teasineV ~.
sure whether they want It or moi. IN =,
sometimes they didn't so much as thinI
what II was they were asking for. So II
IS with TINS clamor for the recall ~
judges. To be sure, some Judges ought
10 be recalled, though they ought never 10
nave been elected. The recall might bs
an right, with the proper limitation blt
as commonly understood it is more than
Wrong.-Muscotah Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

criminals if the inducements are large
enough. ]. Pierpont Morgan offered
a reward of $4,000 for the arrest of
the man who burglarized his New
York home some eight months ago.
And the detectives continued their
quest until they were successful in
landing the party the other day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Surely there is nothing so remark
able in the fact that Topeka can pro-
duce luscious Strawberries in Septem-
Der There are homegrown peaches
of Incompatible quality on the high
ways and byways of Topeka all the
year round
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Isn't it pretty nearly time that Dave
Leahy took out a few chips in the
letter-writing game that is being
played by Governor Stubs and Sen
ator Curtis?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

OrOEco's revolution is reported to
be getting weaker and weaker with
each succeeding day. But if Presf-
dent Madero is successful in event
ually stamping it out, it is certain
that the revolution under the leader
ship of Zapata will come to the
front with much Nigor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journsl is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
eanfzAtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puT-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Governor Johnson says that Mr..
Taft has practically been eliminated
from the presidential contest, and
will run a poor third. Not so many
weeks ago and Mr.. Johnson was
among those who insisted that Mr..
Taft would be eliminated by the Re
publican national convention. SO
much for Governor johnson as a po-
litical prophet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Colonel Roosevelt declares that the
only way to reform Republicans of
the type of Barnes and Penrose is with
a club. But he didn't happen to think
of this method during the period that
Mr.. Barnes and other workers in the
Republican party were helping him
mount the ladder of political fame.
And it was these men who placed him
on the top rung.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Judge Browning of Amarillo, Tex.
seems to be an especially wise man.
He has directed that persons with
guns will not be admitted to the court
room during the proceedings against
John B. Snead, who has settled his
differences with the male members Of
the Boyce family by killing all of
than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Some of the more enthusiastic of
the prominent Automobiles through
out the country are now building a
stone highway from New York to
San FranciscO-on paper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
FROM OTHER PENS
TAFT AND ECONOMY

PRESIDENT Taft may or may not be
oead COCK in the pitt so far as tho
eiectoraI campaign is concerned; but
MS letter to the secretary of the treas
ury on the budget question shows THAI
ne is stu doing business as president
Oh the United States, and expects to
take his duties in that capacity Sc
rlouSly until his term of office expires.
Inc president has set his heart upon
erecting a thoroughgoing reform in
the governments fiscal administra-
Ilon, and he is not deferred by indis-
ference or opposition in congress, nor
by the absorption of popular interest
at this time in subjects offering more
attraction to the political imagination
of the multitude. We must confess
that the emphasis he is putting at this
moment on a matter so commonplace
as the mere Systema tization of the M
tons control over its financial ways
and means, the adjustment of outgo
to income, is, to us, decidedly refresh
ing, if only as offering bit of variety
in the political landscape. 1t is a re-
minder, too, of the fact that in the
introduction of administrative econ
omieS, and in the curbing of the gen.
eral tendency to unlimited eXpendi-
ture, Mr.. Taft has achieved a notable
degree of success. We venture the as
sertion--though, to be sure, with sofllf9s
diffidence, for we recognize how bold
a venture it is-that even the Bull
Moose chieftains have not declared the
presidents record in this one part:-
cular, to have been disgraceful to him
and a humiliation to the nation.-New
York Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrorn the New York Press

From the New York Press.
Details pay the steady dividends.
If a man is a hog about his eating he
will attribute it to his good conscience.
The singular thing about political pa
triots is how they all want to get paid
Tor it,
millionaire seems to have an idea tbs
Lord is only just existing till they get to-
gether.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

Apparently nothing can stay the in
creasing concentration of wealth. An
aged Connecticut millionaire has mar
ried a miIliner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
From the HickeyviIle Clarion.
81 ROY z. MOULTON.

FROM the Hickeyville Clarion.
Mr. zebulion Hicks, the talented and
VesatIle superintendent and hired man of
Mr.. Elias Handy's agricultural estate,
mad labored since sunrise the other day
ana when night came he was very weary.
He had been scratching the earth with an
old hoe and had jabbed away with TINS
implement of torture until every bone in
ms BODY aehed like the toothache. With
the setting of the sun he fastened to his
boudior under the apex of the roof of
the ancestral castle of Mr.. Handy, glee-
fully shaking off the shackles of toll. q
pair of blue overalls and leaped playfully
into bed He did not crawl in as ordi-
nary mortals do, but leaped over the foot
DoaId, having taken a running jump. Mr..
HICKS was not conVerSant with the fact
that Mrs Handy the cheerful and spick-
and helpmeet of the lord of the manor.
had removed the vital portions of said
bed, even unto the springs and Stats, for
the purpose of airing them, and had for
gotten to replace them What Mr. Hicks
thought was a regular bed was only the
frame of one and when he leaped over
the footboard, head first, he went clear
Though to the floor, shooting through the
air like a meteor cast off the planet Mars
that has been described as dull and sick
ening. He broke a collar bone and ten
commandments, and the old hoe knows
his friendly craps no more Mr. Hicks is
recovering rapidly and will be out in a
few days. Moral: Look before you leap.
Mr.. Rufus Doolittle has just completed
Work Harness and expects to make a
fortune out of it, which he probably will
if it sells well. The harness works by
electricity and when button is pressed,
it jumps off the harness hook and lands
squarely on the back of the horse. SAID
horse having been led out to the middle
of the barn. The harness then proceeds
to buckle itself and bitches itself to
the wagon when the horse has been
backed into the thills. Mr.. Doolittle
claims that this is one of the most won
derful inventions since the patent elestt2
sleeveholder, which came out in 1894, an
no doubt it is. Mr. Doolittle expects to
try out his new device next week and see
how it will work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

1t is true that the Republican at
mosphere in Kansas has cleared a lit
tie since the Roosevelt electors were
directed by Mr.. White TO retire from
the Republican ticket. But it will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

At last ''Leftie Louie and "Gyp
the Blood" can breathe more easily.
They are now in the hands of their
frio0dS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
why Suffer From Heat.

Why Suffer From Heat.
There are SO many ways to avoid it
! For instance:
| Go for a long cruise on the ocean in E
steam yacht. Travel up around Labrador
| Lie in a hammock all day beneath d
| spreading apple tree with tall pitcher
| of lemonade by your side.
| Have large electric fans in every room
in the house and stand beneath cold
shower seven or eight hours day.
Spend the summer in the extreme
northern part of Canada, where the only
difference between summer and winter is
that the selighing is poor on the main
street in the summer.
Do not do any sort of work, but jus'
lie around in a cool, breezy spot in your
Take an automobile trip to Alaska. Ii
Is generally nice and cool up in that
Have a bungalow down by the sea
where cool breezes swept the front porch
When you get tired of sitting on the
porch take a dip in the sea or cruise
down the coast in a yacht.
The Worst Is Yet to Come.
Now comes the campaign rator,
How should make choice.
The constitution. he explains
So hard, to earn his pelf
You'd think to listen his talk,
He of the foghorn voice,
Who tries to tell us poor galootS
He wrote the thing himself.
He hypnotizes folks
And punctuates his sage remarks
with comtc-weekly jokes,
He talks about George Washington
And Lincoln without end.
You'd think that each of them had been
His lifelong bosom friend.
At times he view with great ALARM
And then he points with PRIDE
He tells how the heroes of
The Revolution died.
The price of rubber in Peru,
Or treaties with Japan.
He can discuss with equal grace
He is a Wonderous man.
He tells us about the stars
That flicker in the sky
He tells how the earch goes round
The sun, and when and why.
There's nothing he can't talk about
To make US gasp and stare
He's got to be, to hold his job,
An expert in hot air.
OF course, the things we want to know
He doesn't touch at all
He'll talk all round the issues that
Are coming up this fall.
With 1ound and flowery eloquence
He seeks to make us feel
Excited, but he covers up
The issues that are real.
We've got to listen to him. though
1t Is the penalty
OF living in a country that
The world proclaims as free.
OF course, we always go and vote
The way that we think best,
Regardless of the siren song
Of this quadrennial pest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23

More evidence that detectives are
generally successful in the pursuit of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
WOMEN JURORS NEEDE1

The recent acquittal Of several wo-
men who were charged with murder has
led Attorney ]. Z. w. Wayman, Of
Chicago, to assert that unless women
are allowed to serve on juries when
other women are on trial for murder
these crimes will never be avenged.
He states that statistics show that
murders by women are on the increase.
Twenty years ago such crimes we're
extremely rare, but now they are so
common that they pass almost without
notice in the newspapers unless they
are accompanied by some sensational
features. In the opinion of Mr.. Way
man, the reason for the increase in
these crimes, especially those in
which men are the victims. is the ten
dency of juries to allow women to es-
cape All the women have to do is
TO tell some moving story and no cor
roborative evidence is required. Few
crimes of this sort are committed in a
moment of rage, as are the crimes
in which the man kills the woman. He
believes that if women were allowed
TO try these cases they would consider
the evidence as dispassionateIy as men
weigh the evidence against other men.
He concludes that men do not know
women, and that women do, and unless
95 per cent of murderesses are to es-
cape women will have to replace men
on the juries-New Orleans Picayune.
The Press., 1912-06-12
HOLLANDS RAILROADS.

They Are Operated at a Loss to Aid
 the Canal Traffic.
 In contrast with the history of Bel gium. Germany, France and Austria, Holland alone of all European cOun- tries presents situation where the railroads require protection from the competition of the canals.
 Holland thus reverses the general rules which apply in all other coun- tries. Railroad development was re markably slow in Holland. The first Dutch railroads were short local lines. while the waterway system was ex- tensive and strongly intrenched.
 At length, convinced that she could not keep pace with other European countries by her waterway system alone. the Dutch government con structed an ambitious line of railroads connecting with the international lines of Europe.
 The railroads were built not with any expectation that they would be profitable as investments. but because they were considered absolutely neces- sary to save the country from indus trial decadence. Holland is the only country in the world in which the state has provided both rail and wa ter highways substantially free of cap ital charge. The railroads are now operated at a loss to supplement the waterways. which carry 90 per cent of the traffic of Holland.-Amer1can Review of Reviews.
The Press., 1912-06-12
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"A FLY cATECHISM

The following questions and answers were prepared by the Indiana state board of health and have been widely copied. The school board of Asheville. N. C., caused them to t., pasted ill the spelling books used in the graded schools of the city:
 Where is the fly born? In manure and filth.
 Where does the fly live? In every kind of filth.
 Is anything too filthy for the fly to eat? No.
 Where does he go when he leaves the surface closet and the manure pile and the spittoOn? Into the kitchen and dining room.
 What does he do there? He walks on the bread, fruit and vegetables. He wipes his feet oD the butter and bathes in the milk
 Does the fly visit the patient sick with typhoid fever. consumption and cholera lnfantum? He does, and he may call on you next.
 Is the fly dangerous? He is mans worst pest and more dangerous than wild beasts or rattlesnakos.
 What disease does the fly carry? He carries typhoid fever. consumption and summer complaint. How: On his wings and hairy feet. What is his correct name? Typhoid fly.
 Did he ever kill any one? lie killed more American soldiers during the Spanish American war than did the bullets of the Spaniards.
 Where are the greatest number of cases of typhoid fever. consumption and summer complaint? Where there are the most flies.
 Where are the most flies? Where there is the most filth.
 Why should we kill the fly? Be- cause he may kill us.
 When shall we kill the tly? Kill him before he gets wings. Kill him when he is q maggot in the manure pile. Kill him while he is in the egg state.
 How? Keep the stables dry and clean and don't allow any manure to stay on the premises longer than one week. Have all other filth and trash accommodating on your premises remov- ed or burned at least once week.
 If your neighbor fails to comply with these rules and allows flies to breed on his premises to visit you, screen your doors and windows and keep them out.