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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
SAYS UNCLE CAV

Forty years ago we thought we knew
all there was to know about farming. We
didn't. We hadn't awakened to the big
fact of crop rotation. And when we
learned that the soil needs a rest through
change of crops, we also learned a
great big fact about human brains. Meth
er the soil nor brains rest by lying fat
low. Neither is fallow until it is ex-
hausted. Then the land is a desert and
the brain is dead.
The only way to rest land is to give it
new work to do. That is also the only
way to rest a brain. For the brain, or
part of it, works whether we sleep or
wake and the night crop is determined by
that of the day. When we learned to
and set the weary land to raising cowpeas
added nearly so per cent to the eff
ficiency of the ground. We found out
how to use the soil and at the same time
to improve its quality. We had stumbled
on the secret of preventing the wearing
out and breaking down of farms. And
now that we know how to plant mental
cowpeas in our hours of leisure. we have
cut down the percentage of broken down
and worn out T en- by more than half and
contributed materially to the average hu-
man efficiency.
A healthy brain in a healthy body. prop
erly used, never gets tired The hou"
comes when it recoiIs in disgust from its
work-that is the time to plant your COW
peas. Turn to something frivolous or
something that will exercise a dlnereHt
set of mental muscles.
Golf may do the trick for one, music
for another, baseball for another, or a
long walk to the accompaniment OF
thoughts that go cheerfuIly woolgather-
ing, may be the requisite for still anoth-
er. When the heavy work of the day has
exhausted your mental hydrogen or pncs-
phites, try another crop. All your brain
erIy turned up for fun. A little diversion,
wants is a chance. When it has played
out on business, it is just getting prop
in turn. tunes it up for business, and
there you are.
But the man who keeps pegging away
at one thing during his waking hours,
goes to sleep with the convolutions of his
brain strained and weary and lncapaple
of relaxation during slumber.
To all intents and purposes his BRAN
long And he becomes mentally barreaI
before his time. In the process he loses
his appetite for work and exerton pc
coTnes drudeerv But he, who knows how
and when to plant his cowpeas, beats
both the doctor and the undert ,ai5e ana
recognize the vale of tears
1912, by w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17

Grafton, Professor Robinson assumes
that man has been standing upright
and seeking out inventions for only
100000 years. Each hour on the 'his-
tory clock thus represents 10000
years, each minute three centuries and
each second five years. In this long
human day. nothing is recorded before
half-past IL. At 20 minutes to IL the
earliest vestiges of Babylonian and
Egyptian culture begin to appear.
Greek philosophy and science were born
but seven minutes since we began tc
make the steam engine do our work
for US. 1t was only two minutes be-
fore IL that the idea of conscious pro-
gress entered the mind of man. We
have been awake, scientifically speak
ing, scarcely more than a minute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
MEASURING HUMAN PROGRESS.

One of the best ways to understand
our relation to the history of humanity
and to test our hopes for the future is
to crowd the whole history of mankind
into IL hours, and to imagine that
we are living at noon of this long hu-
man day, says Current Literature for
July. This method of illustrating COS
biological perspective was first sug-
gested by Heinrich Schmidt, a pupil
of Haeckel James Harvey Robinson,
of Columbia, celebrates the idea to H.
lustrate the modern historical outlook.
and to show that the new history
should be the weapon of the radical
To imagine a clock that records not
minutes but centuries, and to measure
by it the evolution of the human race
is, he declares, the most adequate
way to sense the increasing velocity
of progress. For the sake of convenient
reckoning and in the interest of mod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoF GLOBE.

Generally speaking, a Society Queen
pays too much for her crown
One trouble about political dark horses
is getting them back to the pillow.
Next to the bicycle, the army maneuver
is about the poorest excuse for hard work.
stingy man may not have many
friends, and he is also less likely to need
them.
Clarion Notes and campaign cigars are
less influential than the politicians be-
Iteve.
mean man is a great worry to his
wife, particularly when she has tie
preacher to dinner.
An Animated Conversation is one in
which two women participate both built
to do all the talking.
Careful observation leads us to believe
that nearly everyone believes in religious
liberty for himself.
Only a few boys go away from homo
without living to regret they didn't buy
round trip ticket.
A photograph would be a great institu-
ton if some one would furnish it salts
factory throat remedy.
No form of gambling is highly COM
mendable, but the woman who marries
man to reform him is taking the biggest
chances.
When an ornery boy grows up ami
amounts to something, his former school
teachers take almost much pride in
his achievement as his mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record. J

I
One of the greatest tests of friendship
is to listen to a hard-luck story.
NelI-"Jack told me I was his first
love" Belle-''He told me I was his last.
One-half the world, being short, doesn't
know how the other half gets along.
Lots of people who marry for love find
themselves unable to carry out the con-
tract.
There is nothing that will make a girl
forget a heartache like having a tooth
ache.
It's all right to have plenty of go but
you also want to have some staying quail
tiles.
1t takes almost as much cheek to be a
book agent as it does to sell shaving
soap
Walking proves that the girl with tire
largest feet doesn't always cover the most
ground.
1t isn't every man who can distinguish
the difference between enthusiasm and
mere gush.
Some people are always so careful to be
prepared for the worst that they miss the
best entirely.
"A man and his wife are one.'' quoted
the Wise Guy. Eyes, sometimes one too
many" added the Simple Mug.
Wigg-'Is it true that bleaching the
hair causes Insanity" Wagg-'Well, L
know many fellow who is simply crazy
over a blonde"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.1


The rolling stone never gets TO the TOP
When a woman sets clock she always
sets it by guess.
If a man is a model husband that is the
one thing he is fit for.
Many mans intellect is like pottle OF
water-you can see through IT.
The man who steals a girls heart Is
liable to servitude for life.
Surely he is a wise man who knows
when he has enough before he gets IT,
A pleasure, like a pipe, may be solace
to one man and a nuisance to others-
When a boy begins to state his slde OF
the case he is accused of talking oack-
Many story with a happy ending finns
its last resting place in the waste paske'.
Shortly after marriage the average
woman begins to acquire the instinct OF
a private detective.
A narrow minded man will admit that
others have a right to their opinlons-lr
they are the same as his
When a married woman wants her own
way she is apt to get peeved II her nus
band insists on letting her have It,
Probably nothing hurts a bachelor
egotist so much as when pretty leap
year girl declines to give him the oppor-
tunity to say mo"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
The Streets of Athens.

When we consider her checkered
career her long, long centuries of de-
feat, oppression, pillage, destruction by
the most barbarous nations of Europe
and Asia, we cannot wonder that
Athens is today chiefly celebrated for
still intact. Yet here is today a mod
ern city of some one hundred and
fifty thousand inhabitants, supremely
interesting to the student because of
its history to the artist because of
rare fragments of sculpture, to the
archaeologist because of its majestic
ruins. stately even in their decay.
In the modern city of Athens there
are two squares which fern the two
foci of an ellipse, from which most of
the life of the city radiates. One of
these is Constitution square, to trans
late the Greek and French names by
which it is usually called into English,
and the other is the Place of Concord.
Around Constitution square cluster the
leading hotels, while to the east it is
fanked by the great bare marble pal
ace of the king, in front of which is
a pretty park, and behind it botan-
zeal garden.
F'rome the Place de la Concord
radiate various electric car lines to
different parts of the city, and the two
squares are connected by the Street
of the Stadium. a busy thoroughfare
about half a mile long. other prin-
cipal business streets are the Street of
Hermes, the street of Aeolus, Athens
street and Piaeus street. In all these
and some others are good shops, filled
with the latest importations from Lon
don, Paris and New York. The stu
dent of the classics will be interested
to note that many of the streets are
named after the ancient worthless, Ho-
mer and Socrates, Aeschylus and
Phidias, and is thankful to the city
fathers of Athens for putting UP at
every street corner a marble tablet
with the name of the street in plain
Greek letters, a custom which many
of our American cities might we'll
initiate more extensively.-The Chris
tan Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
OFFSET FOR ALL FRUIT LOSSES

The peach crop may be as short as
current reports say that it will prove
the cherry yield may fall far below
the u&ual level in son important Sec
tions; Caiifor1 ia may have fewer april
cots tran the normal supply, but all
of these deficiencies will be more than
offset if nothing happens to blight the
promise of the apple trees. The big
gest fruit crop is expected to prove the
best in many years. It will be of ex-
traordinary bulk and probably of I'M
usual quality, all the way from Maine
to Washington, with the exception of
certain localities where apples are not
extensively grown. The finest outlook
for the apple orchards is in the states
where apples are produced on the
largest scale.
The same experts who predicted a
total yield of about 100000 barrels
last year and proved to be about
100000 barrels below the mark, say
now that the crop of 1912 will reach
100000 barrels. That means an
increase of 100000 barrels or more,
which is equal to a gain of 81 per cent.
Put another way, it promises for this
wear about fifteen billion more irdi-
vidual apples than were grown in the
United States in 1911.
Such figures make the lesser fruit
crops seem small. The increase in the
yield of apples will far more than bal
ance the decrease in all of the other
fruits which may fall short of last
years record. This will be true Goth
in quantity and value. Even the
orange crop is completely dwarfed by
the apples when the orchards are do
ing well, and the apple crop can be
reckoned in barrels against some of
the smaller fruits in pounds and still
come out ahead
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
HOW SENATORS ARE CHOSEN.

! HOW SENAIOtSS AESE CHOSEN.
| Although the matter has been ex-
planned times without number, there
still seems to be a considerable mis-
| understanding in the state as to the
workings of the modified Oregon plan
for the selection of United States sena-
tors which is in vogue in Kansas.
Judge w. H. Thompson, one of the
Democratic candidates for the United
States senatorial honor that is to be
awarded at the forthcoming primaries
and the subsequent election, has pre-
pared brief but explicit explanation
of the Kansas law on this important
subject and how it works out, together
with a further explanation of the sig
nificance Of the statements" that may
be subscribed to by candidates for the
legislature relative to their stand on
the senatorial question. These explana-
lions follow:
Under the new law a candidate for
nomination for United States senator
is voted for directly at the primary in
August the same as all other candi-
dates, and the candidate receiving the
highest number Of votes of his party in
the greatest number of legislative dis
tricts secures the nomination, regard
less of the popular vote in the state.
(See section 1905 general statutes 1909
THE name of the successful candi-
date for the nomination in each party
at the primary is then placed on the
ballot with the rest of the candidates
to be voted for directly by the people
at the general election in November.
The candidate receiving the highest
number of votes cast for United
States senator in the state at such gen.
eral election receives from the secre-
tary of state a certificate to that ef-
feet. (See Chap, 1872 Laws of 1917
ITO secure full benefit of this plan
each candidate for state representa-
tive and state senator should subscribe
to statement No. L (see Sec. 1. Chap.
1872 Laws 191D to be attached to his
nomination papers, which provides that
he will support the senatorial candi-
date receiving the highest number of
the peoples votes at the general cleo
ton in November, without regard to
his individual preference or party NOM
nations for that office. This will force
him, if elected, to vote in the legisla-
ture for the candidate receiving the
highest popular vote at the November
CISCIlOu anu VIII pT0S6nIS Ills C0Tllll-
cate from the secretary of state show
ing this fact If a sufficient number
of candidates for the legislature COM
ply with this provision of the law it |
will result in the election of United |
States senator by popular vote. which |
the people demand.
Statement No. q of the law leaves
it optional with each legislative can
didate as to whom he will support |
which would result in no good what |
ever, as there are few men who will |
lay aside politics. unless they have
pledged themselves to do so in writ
ing, when it comes to voting for Uni
ted States senator, and the objects of
the present plan would be defeated by
to this statement the same
as Il no statement had been signed
at ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
AN INDIsCRIN1NATE CHARAIER.

AN INDISCRIMINATE CHARMER.
She's slim of form and fair of face,
Possessed of every charm and grace,
And as each morn 1 pass her place
She smiles at me
Bewitchingly!
And, oh! the stunning clothes she wears!
Each week she in new garb appears.
1t seems that no expense she spares
To please my eye
As pass by.
Alas! she does not keep her smiles
For me alone Her witching wiles
Are for the giddy throng that files
Along the way,
From day to day.
Yet, after all, it's naught to me
1nat she expends so lavishly
Her smiles on all; because, you see,
She's in a big shop front displayed
OF wax she's made.
Arthur William Beer, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many couples leave their love-
making at the marriage altar.
X =
The more improbable the story the
more interesting it usually is.
Il y n
This hot weather is also mighty I'M
comfortable for the chair-warmers.
= =
The less money a man has the quick
er he seems to be to get it into circula-
ton.
What has become of the old-fa shion-
ed man who wanted to fight when
called a liar?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
HVA0R or THE DRY

tba 1 Eorced Confession.-"Pshaw, here's
ho6v,a ~ Golnlng down again and some
e goJS stolen my umbrella" sssornehot5,,;
itoIen what" We'll the umbrella. rs
C etn carrying for the last week or So 70 20
Oathonc Standard and Times. SO -
opera Manager Ito patroD)- c,a- -.
fbnggest any any other improvements in INV NV
IFatron-Tes; sink the stage also-MSS,,cltf
IeEes doctor who says hundreds of
EpHs !, aCS nave been removed needless
" OF course, he's wrong Tho =
NOVA dnovaI wasn't needless as long as the
Plain Dealer. 'eianu
... Wnen was a young man 1 worked
WE'VE hours day." said the sire Il
admire your youthful energy,' replied t,e
son, but admire still more fhe ma
ture wisdom which led you to stop it,
Washington Star.
Couldn't Trust Him.-Judge-Wh didn't
you stop beating him when he cried
Enough? "Sambo-W'y, We see. sab,
dat niggah is SIGH a liah ye can't nevan
beliebe im.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NOALL.

If the hen laid an egg would the
scare-crow?
easy with the whip. Phil, it's hired
hcrse)
If five cents is small isn't a penny
less?
(This being a free concert, We will
now take up a silver offering)
If a stone-step was to see a horse-hy
would "a Texas steer it on board
walk?
(Step back quickly, child! The canyon
is filthy with IndiansiD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
KANSAS COAMENT
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.

considering that the chances. argr1-
ing from past history, are one in seven
that the vice president will become
president, the slight attention given by
Ine Two conventions to the choice of a
candidate is national scandal. The
vice president job has become the snort
OF the nation and the butt of the para
srapher. Enforced idleness is con-
sloered In the category of cruel and un-
usual punishments. The man who has
no greater function than to put AYES
ana Noes, mere clerks Job, is NOT
likely to measure up to the presidential
standard If fate's lightning strikes him
II is significant that when the constitu-
tion was originally drafted the conven-
tlon was in session five months before
IT occurred to anyone that there ought
TO De vice president. This Convention
assembled the most profound thinkers
Gnu constructive statesmen ever called
upon to fashion form of government
EVERY known device for CONSTITUTING =
natlonal authority was tried and de-
pated. Not until the work was nearly
oone did some one suggest having n
nIIe PRESIDENT The real reason for his
e1lstence is said to have been the fear
or the smaller states lest the big statas
sI-ouIo always get the p esidency of the
sShate' and cast the deciding vote in
1Eat body So they created the
TN OF vice president to lay
tEat DOGGY. There are two WAYS
10 assure a first class presidentiaI
succession. The first, and a desfrab HE
hetnod' would be to abolish the vics
presidency. Probably that would he
impossible. The second way, and a per-
Lecuy possible means. is to give the
man some honest work to do that viii
count, and which will interest a MAJ,
.! PRESIDENTIAL size. Why should he 5e
SEsoIVed from the universal law of Ia
rer' Wnlch alone makes anv career
" orth while. At the least he sbouId
nave vote in the senate on every III
VISION, instead of merely the right IN
"ecloe tle.-Winfield Courier.
MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR.
Not more than a hundred miles
from this city lives a lady who has
passed her eightieth birthday ami
Versary. She was large and strong
ana mad always been an industrfo,,s
worker. About a year ago she fell
ana q broke her right limb near the
MP She has not been able to wall
since: Day after day she sits in her
inVano chair with little to do but med
lIate. Her eyes are not strong ana
sue can neither read nor sew for LONG
at time. The family wait uno6
8er ana supply her physical needs.
put IL is a busy household and thew
,aEe nttIe time to read to her. She
sdiu 10 me In substance one dav with
vehemence that was startling at
Wlsh could die! 1 am no good TO
anyone and can not even take care of
myself. I said what little I couId
mink OF that might prove comfort.
ing, ana then I thought, o. how
much L have to be thankful fol-
Neither I. nor any member of NV
nousenold is an invalid. We can All
Walk talk, see and hear. How
ashamed I should be to connIata "
Ness County News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
years

cit was my fight and it is my vic
tory was the comment made by Col
Roosevelt when he learned that the
senate had voted Mr.. Lorimer out OF
Its midst. 1t is believed, though, the
Congressional Record will show that
Senator LaFollette was the man who
was primarily responsible for bringing
the case against Lorimer to an issue
again after the first investigation and
after the senate had voted that the
uIinoisan was entitled to his seat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17

Complaints are being made by the
textile fabric men that the narrow
skirts are running their business. But
the men who pay for them haven't
noticed any material reduction in the
size of the dressmakers' bills since the
narrow skirts have been in vogue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

LFrom the New York Press.J
Exceptions can prove only fool rules.
No nice girl will ever let a man kiss her
after he has done it.
No work is so hard a man can't get
some fun out of it unless he is paid
for it.
woman can look ten times cooler than
she is and a man one hundred times
warmer than he is.
house where you live Is always a
great deal hotter in summer than II would
be If you didn't live in it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17
HOME NEWS WHILE AVIAN.

subsra FIoers OF tho state Journal
away from homo during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
zach dag to any address sf the rate OF
month (by nail only Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State journal VIII be
70 you like a daily 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, 1912-07-17

party well could be. 1t is a record
that the party and the men who have
made it can well point to with pride.
Regardless of the protestations of
bright men to the contrary, the rad
icalism they advocate is not neces-
sarily progressiveness. Rather does it
contemplate mere changes. many of
which might work out in an opposite
direction to a progress worth while
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17

How are the prominent Roosevelt
ians in Kansas going to participate in
the convention of Mr.. Roosevelt's new
party and also in the Kansas pri-
maries? They both fall on the same
date, August 6. However, nothing is
impossible with the Roosevelt enthusi-
asts. or so they seem to think.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17

That righteous decision of the inter-
state commerce commission making
material reductions in express rates,
should be followed by the enactment
of a parcel post law by congress. Sucn
a law would do more to bring about
reasonable express rates than any OF
the efforts of the interstate commerce
commission, because the latter are like
ly to be held up in the courts for many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-17

In view of the fact that the Ameri-
can athletes demonstrated their SUI
periority in convincing fashion at
Stockholm, it seems eninently fitting
that a full-blooded American Indian,
one of the real natives of this hemis-
phere, should have proved to be the
best a11-around athlete in the world.
All hail to Jim Thorpe.