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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

When Deacon Bert Walker went to
California, he thought the sleeping
car porter should be given something
so he gave him three cheers. The
Republican convention seems in
4 clined to duplicate Bert's generosity
in dealing with Hon. Roosevelt.
And any journeyman machinist
tween nut and bolt. They go to-
gether.
The Jack Cudahys are remarked.
But If you care a whoop, it is a sure
! sign you make a practice of fussing
you in the least.
The chances are good that even
Jerre Lillis doesn't care.
Wives get what they want by
threatening to bolt, but husbands
who are onto their jobs, simply adj
journ.
From the way the T. r. delegates
are digging out the cork belts, IT may
be gathered that they have inspected
the Good Ship Teddyfelt and. found
the lifeboat equipment Inadequate.
The -four corners of the earth,' as
mentioned in the Bible, probably
Morgan's corner in art specimens.
Stubbs' corner in state employees and
Roosevelt's corner in indignation.
The Louisville mail carrier who
testified that it took 40 bottles of
beer to make a man drunk must have
an annex and sub basement.
Uncle Joe Cannon didn't get
ticket to the convention. Neither,
So l.
horned his way in, just the same.
Great improvements have been
made during the past two years by
the Santa Fe construction depart
ment, but the publicity department is
them all. Frank farrell has laid and
ballasted standard lines into all the
newspapers in the. country.
Although Hon. Ros Stubs and
Hon. Bill Finn are on the same side,
politically. they are vastly different in
many ways. Stubs made his money
with a pickhandle and Finn made his
with piece of lead pipe.
The principal advantage to being |
fat is that nearly every time a fat |
man sits down to worry about his |
troubles, he falls asleep and forgets |
them.
When man gets wages, his wife |
calls it his "sa lary." When he gets |
a real salary she refers to it as his
income"
The story about Damocles and the !
suspended sword is all right, but the |
chances are that it was an allegory;
he suspended sword representing
Trouble, and the suspending hair the
strange hair his wife found on his
coat collar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

There are a great many ways OF
showing affection in this world. And
some of them are very queer ways.
For instance, there is the person
who loves his family very dearly, is
very anxious when any of them are
not well, and shows his anxiety by be-
ing very cross and touchy
1 know dear lady who has very
sensitive lungs and occasionally
catches a very bad cold. 1 happened
to visit at her home during one of
these attacks and was surprised to
find her husband, who is usually the
most amiabIe and Iovable of men, ex-
tremely cross and disagreeable. Every
time she coughed he would look
black as thunder cloud; and once
when she went out walking and dis
covered after we had gone some dis
lance that she had forgotten to wear
her scarf, he was almost beside him
self with rage and made the walk
back thoroughly miserable. 1 think
she saw my surprise and astonish-
ment, for she said gently: You
mustn't mind John. You know my
lungs aren't strong and my mother
died that way. And when 1 have
anything the matter with them he is
so worried that it makes him unlike
himself
Poor little woman. In addition to
the discomfort OF ner own
ill health, she had to brace her
self to meet this strange manifesto
ton of his great affection. 1 wonder
if she didn't ever wish he loved her
a little less? Probably not. though;
we aren't built that way. Most of us
can't get too much love, even if it
does have queer ways of expressing
itself.
Love, whose chief expression is a
jealousy, is familiar
to all of us. One of the wisest young
women 1 ever knew had the courage
gagement to a man she loved dearly
when she found that his love was go
ing to express itself in that manner.
Unlike the ordinary man, he didn't
need any expression of liking on her
part to arouse his mania. If anyone
else admired or liked her, that was
to set him off. On one occa-
sion he became frantically jealous be-
cause another man admired the dim
pie in her elbow. The girl was wise
enough to realize that the suffering
Of a separation would be infinitely
less than the lifetime of suffering |
such love would probably inflict.
The love that shows itself in ham, |
pering it's object by continual fretting |
and worrying is another one of. these |
strange affections. One of my friends |
s an only child of passionately de- |
1oted mother whose love takes this |
channel. Instead of want
ng him to live the broadest and hap
best life possible, she is continually |
lsking him to give up this or that
normal pleasure or activity because,
L shall worry So"
1 wonder if I have done right to
all the affections that manifest !
themselves in such strange ways by |
he beautiful name of love? Do they
deserve the name? Real love de-
Tres nothing on earth so much as
he happiness of it's object Do they
meet the test of that touchstone?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
DAWN AND LOSS.

lack thee in the MONDAY light
l want thee in the deep of night:
But most, when sadder than all words
hear the voice of waking birds.
Inen seem I most of all forlorn,
when behold the day reborn:
mere is no mercy in that ray,
On hopeless fancies comes the day.
Then is the hollow world remade.
GOO! but that image will not fade:
That ghostly chorus from the leaves
Reminds, and yet again bereaves.
The widowing beam upon me falls,
And to a gray remembrance calls
Rebuilded is the dismal loss
And regretted is the cross.
For in that dimness we had speech,
Simple and prudent each to each;
Slow on my shoulder fell thy head.
l held thee close as skies grew red.
Oh, dear vert thou in silent dew;
Thrice dear in deepening of the blue;
But now see from this dark room
Only the glimner of a tomb.
Stephen Phillips, in the Westminster
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
DAFFYDHS
sY o. NoALA..

If a woman delegate to the Chicago
convention got obstreperous would the
steam-roIler?
point of order, Point of order.!
Point of order!.D
And what kind of a walk. by the
way, is a delegate?
(AwI Let's change the rules.)
If there could be such a thing as a
Speechless convention wouldn't there
still be the roll-calI?
(Mr- Sergeant-at-armsi Throw that
quiet man out. This is no place for
him.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

Most of the delegates were chosen
at direct primaries is one of the
statements made by Colonel Roosevelt
in one of his addresses urging his fol-
lowers to bolt the convention. Direct
primaries We're held in twelve states.
The aggregate delegates from these
states number S3S. The total number
of delegates in the convention is 107S.
And in those primaries Senator La
Toilette won Sc delegates. President
Taft obtained IS delegates in the same
primaries. So as matter of fact the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
HUAOR or THE DIP

IN the Suburbs.-Naybor-I saw Sph
6ubs. have you footrule over thers7
SuoDuDs-1es; one my wife made n is.
Use the doormat before entering" Nav
oor-Oh, that won't do. That's t1,o
loot rule.-Boston Transcript.
rs mamms's good little boy ready TO
have his bath now?" 20. NAV. cut ont
years old it's time to take him out - -.
kindergarten class I'll take nv SrIsns
in the tub when I've had my SMOKE ="
Chicago Tribune.
Many people are willing to catch a cold
right one.-Judge's Library. Inv
I see your wife has her hama ~
bandage. What is the matter?'' II SET
last night."-Judge. PAet
Minister-My dear little boy. WIN don-.
you carry an umbrella when il Is TainIn :
like this? Dear Little Boy-Sfnce ma h.s
stopped going to church he never brings
home any more umbreIlas.-London q;,s
Bits.
System.-Professo--I the classifjca,,o,,
on your cases. under what heading would
pendix? Sutdent-I would place them NJ
der the caption Of Internal Revenue
Judge
Works Both ways.-First Poor NJ,
(born poor)-It takes money to naVs
money. Second Poor Man (born richlN
Yes. and 1t takes money to lose money
Foster. in New York Weekly.
Little Bobby-say. Willie IL ma 1oo,,-
imp Little Wi1lie-No. What " ,zoins -
do? Little Bobby-Take out do gold fish
an let EN- play with the cat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELoR.
IFrom the New York

GF'rom the New York Press.1
Hope is the advance agent of resigna-
ton.
Mr. Brains is nearly always too busy
to talk.
man is big fool to gamble his
money except when he loses 1T to you.
The trouble with home poker parties is
how much more of the hosts cigars and
drinks the players can use than they lose
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

If the Roosevelt forces had needed
PAS or even 34S delegates to control the
convention, they probably would have
been sure to declare that that many
had been placed en- the temporary roll
by fraud on the part of the Taft
leaders
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

News has just reached Topeka that
the recent general rains throughout
the state have saved the wheat crop
again. This is at least the third time
that the Kansas wheat crop for this
year has been saved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
Frenchmen Race SnaiIs.

One of the chiefs of the French
postoffice administration, says the
Matin. recently noticed that the clerks
in a certain district Office were very
lax in answering official communica-
tions. and paid a visit of inspection.
We ordered the clerks to open their
desks and they reluctantly complied,
revealing quantity of vigorous
snails, which Immediately crawled in
all directions with surprising speed"
Inquiry elected the fact that the
clerks had trained the snails to race
each other. The report of the COM
mittee of inquiry ends: "Steps should
be taken to curtail the lamentable love
of racing and games of chance which
appears to exist among the postoffice
employees. Paris Wireless to New
Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

More bluff and buster. Until the
credentials committee went into SEES
sion, Colonel Roosevelt's forces insisted
that 80 of the delegates on the tenn
porary roll had been placed there by
thievery. But this number was reduced
bv them to as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
FROM OTHER PENS

| UNCLE SAM AFTER THE PISTOL.
Congress is now considering a plan
| to impose a tax on deadly weapons the
| purpose being, it is said, at once to
prevent crime and to increase the rev.
enues of the government. The bill in
troduced to this end carries a tax of
$3.50 and % per cent ad valorem on
pistols, revolvers. dirk knives bowie
knives, sword cases, stilettos and brass
Or metallic knuckles, a list it will be
observed, that is almost as inclusive IS
that compiled by the Michigan Iegisla-
ture for its prohibitory bill of last year
1t is to be hoped that the inevita Bile
tomfool will not appear in Washing
ton, as he did at Lansing, and make
the proposed law ridiculous by adding
hatpins TO it's embargo. Any law is
c7mmendabie that will help TO lessen
the ease of purchasing deadly weapons.
especially the useless and dangerous
pistol. The figure set in the pendinr,
Dill at washington is high enough 10
discourage traffic in the CHEAP revolver
at least. and this internal instrument a
the most noXious implement of mis-
chief and peril in present society. No
body needs it, except the police ana
~ times out of 100 they would have
no use for it if the criminals did NOT
carry il. The revolver. especiaIIv tbe
cfeap revolver. offers a ready means
10 many murderers and suicides that
would never be thought of II the
agency Tor accomplishing them were
not so easily acquired We have dozens
OIL shootings in Detroit alone every
year That can be traced directly To tbe
VICIOUS article. 1t ought to he nro-
nlElted. but stiff tax will roitira+a
the EVIL to some extent, and will do
good In proportion to its effectivenesz
Detroit Free Press.
FARMING AS AN OCCUPATION
. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson ba-
heVes that many young men who az
Planning to enter college next fan 10
become lawyers and physicians. mjpbt
Wen consider the advantages offeTed
by farming as an occupation. .srbe
rleids are crying aloud for train 81
men, he asserts, while thousands NJ
young men are graduating from I.y
schools and jobs are waiting for only
small percentage of them r.
might be wise for Mr.. Wilson IN lie
more specific in setting forth ths
financial and other rewards or scis,
1flc farming and the average cost 70
an education in agriculture comnarad
with full course at one of the mo
,essional schools. The young men 80
america could do worse than TOOL
INTO the advice offered by this ex-
ert--Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subsca ,fpers of tho state Journal
away frcm hoHc during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents week or thirty cents a
months Thy rail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the state journal will be
to YOU like a iaiIy 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, 1912-06-21

For inside political information read
the Chicago. Tribune. Even after the
first two votes that showed unmistak-
ably that the Taft forces controlled the
convention, the Chicago Tribune insist
ell that Colonel Roosevelt was assured
OF the support of GA delegates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

A plan is being talked of among the
Democrats to give their vice-presi-
Dental nomination to the second man
in the race for the presidential honors
No such suggestion, though, cropped
III in Chicago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

Outside of Chicago all of the rest of
the United States has been running
along in the even tenor of its ways
curing the past few days. and this de-
spite the fact that most of the self
confessed guardians and saviors of the
country are congregated in the Windy
Cftv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

Nor has the monentous doings at
Chicago crowded the baseball news out
OF the papers. When the Washington
Fl divided the honors with the news
from Chicago on the front pages of the
lSte afternoon editions of the newspa-
pers. But baseball is more interesting
than politics, anyhow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

General Orozco and his rebel band
are also pretty expert, in staging re-
treats, and they have been getting
lot of practice in that line recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal rs a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news CT
ganizat ton for the exclusive afternoon
publication IN Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

Hurrah! Hurrah!! Hurrah!!! Gov
error Stubs has esta blished a reputa-
ton as a cheer leader" Two-bits
worth of fire-crackers will also make
considerable noise that has no lasting
effect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

sum total of the delegates Mr.. Roose-
Welt won in direct primaries is only
2S4, or less than one-fourth of all the
delegates to the convention. But this is
about the way most of Mr.. Roosevelt's
statements jibe with the facts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

More power to Governor Mcdonald
Of New Mexico. He believes he can
prevent the Johnson-F'lynn fight
from being pulled off in that state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

st. Louis has made an appropria-
ton of $4,000 to fight mosquitoes.
Possibly they have been getting al
together too familiar with the beer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

Colonel Roosevelt's reputation of be-
ing the cleverest politician of all time
has been denied pretty badly during
the last few days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

Senator Dixon is entitled to a place
OF prominence with those political
prophets among whom Governor Stubs
is such a conspicuous example
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

And incidentally, June IS was the an
niversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

At any rate, the War of 1912 will soon
be over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
KANSAS CO4AEHT

NOTHING SURPRISING ANY MORE
| Inlngs do move. The marvel Of yes
terday is today simply a convenience
-wireless telegraphy, the automobile.
disappeared from our midst. Nothing
| IS impossible. So now when there
comes the prediction that wireless
telephony may supplant wireless teleg-
raphy, no one will dare to doubt. In
! the course of experiments a few days
| ago aboard a yacht owned by the
Prince of Monaco the tune Of ia
Marseillaise," played in the harbor of
! Algiers, was distinctly heard in the
harbor of Toulon, France, on the op-
/ posite side of the Mediterranean. The
| apparatus used is the invention of De
| Zepel, a French inventor. and among
| the claims for the system is that il
/ minimizes errors, prevents intercept
| tions or interference, and that the in
struments are much simpler than
| those used in wireless telegraph. 9th
| er inventors who have studied wire
| less telegraphy and wireless telephony
are of the opinion that the new inven-
| ton is capable of practical application,
and that it's use is but natural step
following the development of wireless
telegraphy. 1t is not true. however.
that distance has been abolished so
far as sound is concerned. The cleo
trio waves, not those of the sound. are
the ones transmitted. It goes without
saying that inventors the world around
will give renewed and increased at
tenIlOn TO TINS Phase OF JelepnOhy, aIsu
within a few months new discoveries
and improvements are likely to be an
ounced.-Leavenworth Times.
A MANS DUTY.
The man who pays his debts and his
taxes may be a blessing or a curse 10
the community. 1t depends on what
else he does. In making this statement
1t is to be understood that by the word
debt is meant the ordinary cash OBJ
legation which a man incurs in the
transaction of his business. There are
men who appear to believe that so long
as they are not indebted to their neigh
bors for goods purchased or the NUM-
cipality, or the state for the last tax
levy, they have discharged their whole
duty and nothing more can be asked OF
them. But in reality mans duty to
his neishbor is limited only by his
power to do his neighbor good. and
his duty to the community by lbs abiI-
ity to be of service to it. The com
munity in which the prevailing state
ment is, What do get out of it?" is
one which does not and cannot pros
per.-Holyrood Banner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
ny THE WAY
by HARVEY PARaoN@

When Deacon Bert Walker went to
California, he thought the sleeping
car porter should be given something,
SO he gave him three cheers. The
Republican convention seems in
clined to duplicate Bert's generosity
in dealing with Hon. Roosevelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

And any journeyman machinis
can readily see the connection be
tween nut and bolt. They go to
gether.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21

The Jack Cudahys are remarked
But if you care a whoop, it is a sure
sign you make a practice of fussing
about something that doesn't concern
you in the least.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15

single sound. She never grows dis
couraged. but keeps it up night and day;
and 1 suppose her lover takes the will
for the deed and loves her just the same.
Another first-class fiddler is the cricket
His tune is loud and shrill. One tune by
night one by day. is his rule. He has
even been known to change his note when
the clouds darKened the sun for while
in the day. Some insects beat little
drums when they want to make music.
The seventeen-year locust has two tiny
drums fastened to his abdomen. They
are fixed firm and tight. and to each one
is attached a strong muscle which the
insect can tighten or relax at will. 1t
makes a sound something like beating on
q tin pan and will drown out every
other musical note of the summer day.
Another queer player is the deathwatch
beetle He burrows into old wood, and
makes tap-tap-tap. as he pushes along.
The longicorn beetle produces rafting
sound by the friction of his scaiy neck.
Many others of our fairylike friends have
musical arrangements that make us think
Of fiddles. In fact the violins of our own
use were probably suggested by these
little fiGdlers of nature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
MUSICAL LEGS AND WINGS.
How Katydids Fiddle and Seventeen
Year Locusts Drum.
I!om the woman's Home Compe Mon

rom the WOman's Home Companion.
Many of the little folks of field and
forest have fine musical instruments and
play on them night and day for three or
four months of the year. The long-horn-
ed grasshopper. or true katydid. is the
leader of the band.
He has two sets of wings, the outer
ones used for flying. the inner ones MAX
ing up the bow and fiddle. Near the base
OF these inner wings is fastened set of
strong veins. When he moves them so
that the veins on each wing rub together
il makes a funny little why sound. and
that is what is called ''grasshopper's fd-
ding
Our common little green grasshopper
is another fine player His fiddle is at
tached to one wing, and he uses his hind
leg for a bow. On this leg is line of
little beadlike Jumps. from each of which
grow a number of fine hairs. When Mr.
Grasshopper draws this leg back and
forth over his wings his love songs thrill
out on the summer air
His poor little mate tries hard to make
the same kind of music; she goes through
the same motions. but can never produce