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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News.1


Every man is the hero of his pipe
dreams.
It takes nine tailors to finish self
made man.
There is nothing more convincing than
eloquent silence.
Most of US get what we deserve, but
fail to recognize it.
You can always get something for moth
ing-in the form of advice.
The first time a girl is disappointed in
love she begins to map out career.
After his fiftieth birthday a man
doesn't have to pay the fiddler so often.
man has an awful time when his wife
Is away from home and he needs fresh
socks.
1t is impossible to make something out
of nothing-with the possible exception of
a bathing suit
1t takes a. mother to explain that if 1t
wasn't for the other bad boys her will
lie, would be angel.
Lots wife is the only woman on record
who became a pillar of salt, but lot or
other wives become peppery.
A woman will always stick up for the
man who lives next door If she happened
to see him once out in the front yard
helping his wife water the flowers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
THE COUNTRY TO THE TOWN.

THE COUNTRY TO THE TOWN.
L
Gay the gems you wear at night
A thousand facets, all one light!
Rich the robes you don by day
One glory, though your heart is gray.
see your shining strands of hair;
Gold, much gold, is tangled there.
But I have seen. I have seen
The silver daisies light ten green.
Have shared the splendors manifold
That are but bought with cowslip-gold,
Teh brilliantS strewn forest floors
Is not my realm rich as yours
And the Town said, proudly my days
go by"
"Queenlier III
Many pleasures throng your parks
Between the magic dawn and darks;
Wherefore should you heed the hurts
OF children crying at your skirts?
Pomp of great Kings Parliament,
A great Queens Court your pride has
bent.
But 1 have known, I have known
-he white Moon on her mountain
throne;
Have heard the children laugh to see
The Sun Kings summer revelry,
The pageant of the purpling moors-
Is not my lot high as yours?
And the Town said, 'Gaily my days
go by"
s. Gertrude Ford. in the Westminster
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
KANSAS CONTENT
COLLEGE LEE.

The college student, having packed
his football clothes, his dress suit and
his fancy shirts. incidentally a few text
books, has proceeded to the seat of his
winters labors. The college campus
again resounds with the signals of the
forward pass. The first thing on ar
rival is to observe II his new fall hat
comedies identically with the type
prevailing among the students. If not
it must at once go to the discard, as
originality is not stylish. OF course
it will be necessary to turn up at lee
lures and exams a given number of
times during the year. But a student
who thoughtfully reflects on and ap-
plies himself to the short cuts by
which examinations can be got by
with the least expenditure of vital
force, will not need to burn any mid
night oil, and not such a big lot OF
daylight eyesight. Reflections like the
literature and learning as he views the
pursuits of our college youth. OF
course it is but one side of the picture.
The boy who yearns to think quickly
on the football field may be learning
something of as much value as
through a quick reply to the quiz on
Latin declensions. Still. in view of the
fact that the books the boy is supposed
to study at college contain the accu-
INFLATED results of the worlds wisdom
and experience, it does seem as II the
crowded into too inconspicuous a cor
ner nowadays.-Winfield Courier.
INTERESTING K. U. STATISTICS.
The records of Kansas State univer-
sity are interesting in many ways, and
in some of these ways they show re-
markable things. Take the women
graduates, for instance. There are
1873 of them, and of those living, only
AL are married, leaving S3S unmarried
OF those who graduated during the
first thirty years of the life of the
University, only forty per cent mar
ried. OF those who graduated the past
nine years, only twenty per cent have
married, but of course there is a good
chance for every one of them vet, for
perhaps none of them are over thirty
five years old. All of which figures
show that education knocks the mar
riage business all to smash. OF the
AL who did marry, however. nearly
all seem to have done fairly well. rs
of that number 1896, or all but As. are
married and home" But the marriage
record is not encouraging. What is
matter with the Kansas men that thew
Go not take advantage of those splen-
cid opportunities Lawrence Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

on the stone heap, in the chair works.
the income of the meanest laborer is
far greater, his burden of effort far
less, and his enjoyment of the good
things of life immeasurably beyond
that of the most adept "gun.''
Viewed from every standpoint and
from every tangent, deliberate crime
is the height of folly. 1t is the poor
est paying and the most precarious
pursuit under the stars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoAI4L.

If KoIehmainen again runs for a
trophy in a smile race will the Fin
lander?
now-)
If a farmer got all tanned up from
the sun would banana peel?
(Put up your guns boys, We won't
make trouble.)
If woman was sent to read one
would the gas-meter?
(No, sir. You can't prove anything
bv mel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Surely the silence of the Kansas
Natural Gas company is becoming
rather painful on the charges being
banded around that a plentiful sup
ply OF gas is available, but the COM
pany is holding it in check in order
to create the impression of there be-
ing a shortage so that it may have
an excuse for raising its rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Nowadays, she cooks to conquer.
-
cure for love is often found in
marriage.
Many collegians are now giving
much study to the forward pass.
n - n
The poorer the card player the
more eager he generally is to gamble
X
What has become of the old fash
toned man who used to fight when
called a liar?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
DIV TIE SPUR
OF THE AOMENT
RY ROW U NKOIrT TON
That Vacation.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

That Vacation.
Unto the mountains would HE,
And have a swell time, wife and I,
At some resort hotel up nigh
The summit.
I'd have the finest time; you know,
There's just one reason 1 don't 60
I can't accumulate the dough-
Col dunn it.
I've often planned a gay career
OF life at Narragansett Pier,
I've thought that almost every year
Would bring it.
1t seems that 1T would be a slice
OF purest joy right off the ice,
But I have never had the price
Col ding it.
This year swore that would go
To Coney for day, you know,
And take dollar bill or so,
And burn it.
But I've quit dopin' it that way.
There's nothin dom but to stay
And hustle for my weekly pay
Col durn it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Governor Johnson is so through
ly honest and square in all of his
political dealings that he and his
friends have manipulated matters so
that there will be no way in Cali
fornia on election day for any man,
so disposed. to cast vote for Presi-
dent Taft unless he writes his name
on the ballot. In other words. the
presidential candidate of the great
Republican party is not to be given
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Sir Thomas Upton doesn't propose
ITO talk shop on the vacation he is
going to spend in this country. And
shop talk with Sir Thomas doesn't
concern the tea business, as one
might think. No indeed! 1t is about
yacht-racing and the possibility that
he will challenge again for the Amer
ica,s clln
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, president
general of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, announces that there
will be an open fight at the next
annual meeting of this organization
concerning the election of her successor.
This probably bars hair-pulling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

This is assuredly an instance of out
of the frying pan and into the fire.
Students in the high schools and COL
leges of North Dakota have been
given a two weeks vacation to go out
in the harvest fields and work four
teen hours a day saving the thousands
of bushels of grain that are yet to be
cared for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
Accordine TO TncIe Ahner.

Some of the greatest diction in this
world is inscribed on the tombstones
There amt nothing in this life
which is so a1ubriouS as the toast
masters introduction of a banquet
speaker, whether it is true or not.
There is only one social function in
this world where everybody preset.t
doesn't covet the place of honor, and
that is a funeral.
High society in our village is get
ting higher than ever. The felleTs
are gettin' 30 they wear their suits
to the baseball games in the after
noon.
The onhandiest feIer in this world
is a street car motorman when he
tried to run an automobile.
The ambition of some fel1ers' lives
is to be invited up on the stage as =
committee to watch the professor as
he does his cabinet tricks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

All of the Greek reservists in this
country have been ordered home on
account of the threatened trouble in
the Balkans. Fortunately, though,
the bootblacks are not included.
They're too young for military ser
vice. Think of the hardships that
would have ensued among the able
bodied men of this land had they
been compelled to go back to the old
fashioned custom of shining their
own shoes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Another one of those most serious
battles of the revolution" has just
been staged in Mexico. and, as usual
the reports are that the rebel force
under Orozco was defeated. Orozco
has at least demonstrated that he can
take as many nckings and bob up
smiling as a cat can take killings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Not only is it true that every girl
and woman, who happens to break
into the newspapers, IS described as
being pretty but it is also true that
in every report concerning the speech
making of any candidate for any old
kind Of an office reference is made
to the fact that he addressed "a large
and enthusiastic audience" Nor does
it matter whether the speech was
made in a town of $4,000 inhabitants
or in 4 village of 100.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Anybody who has q kick to make
about the brand of weather that has
been served up lately deserves to be
boiled in oil, or elected president
emeritus of the Kickers' club and
then stoned to death
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Governor Wilson seems to be a man
of fearless courage. Just think of it!
He said the other day that Colonel
Roosevelt has been found ''incom-
petent" as a president Whoever
heard of the like2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Your judgment is as good as any
bcdy's as to whether the New York
Giants or the Boston Red Sox wins
the chief baseball honors of the land.
Most of the baseball wiseacres are
disagreed on this score.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
REFLECTIONS ORA BACHELOR.

IEAUIII tIIc -NssF77 15Ilk 2 Io57.I
A man is a lot morepatient with bad
cards than with a good eamily.
The hard thing to Understand how a
Mormon gets along is wat do his wives
say to him for letting on of them have
bigger dressmaker's bill han the others
A mother practices heryreatest deceD-
ton in making her daugher believe how
happy she is in her hushnd: and then
when her daughter gets mrried she does
the same thing to her moner-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

as much consideration on the Cali
fornia ballot as are the various can
didates for places as justices OF the
peace and village constables. This.
be it borne in mind, is Progressive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

And another bumper crop on which
the south has a mortgage concerns
homicides. In other words, the south
must still be filed with gentlemen of
the old school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
FROM OTHER PENS

FARM COOKING AND DRUG HABIT
Health Commissioner Hurry. of In
4 diana, in paper read at the hygfenfc
congress, held bad farm cooking and
J the unsanitary conditions of farm life
| accountable for the farners' i'll health
| and recourse to stimulants and drugs
The frying-pan is overworked." said
| Dr., Hurry. Il believe it is the bad
air, the polluted drinking water. the
neglect of the bath, the poor bread
and fried ernbalmed meats which cause
the farmer to buy so largely of patent
medicines On what is this wholesale
indictment Of farm cooking based E?
There are no Waldorf kitchens in farm
houses, but neither is the farm cook
ing of Indiana the same thing as the
farm cooking of New England. nor is
1t in the south what IT is in. the Da-
kotas. Unless farmers wives of this
generation have lost a skill their moth
ers possessed, the native American
farmer at least sits down to hearty
and reasonably well cooked meals.
The danger of generalization In such
cases is seen in DR.. Hurty's repre-
sentation that farm house cellars. cup
boards, bedrooms, barns and ash
heaps are full of patent medicine bot
ties, in use or discarded. According
to the census report, the total value
Of the patent medicines. compounds and
druggists preparations manufactured
in 1909 was $141 ,942 000 This was an
average of $3.50, or say two bottles. for
everybody in the country. If farmers
monopoliZed the output to anything like
the extent asserted, there was little
left for the rest of us.-New York
World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Will any one now have the temerity
to deny that virtue is not sure to be
rewarded? An editor of Kansas
weekly has just fallen heir to $4,000
II, cnSI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Poor old Mexico. That Inflated
land now has a secondary revolution
in it's midst that is assuming alarm
ing proportions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IL a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
eanixAtion fer the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The state Jour-
nal building ever wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Wilson is the favorite in the cleo
ton betting on Wall street But Wall
street has been known to pick a few
losers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
NEW GREENRACKS-


The list has been completed of IA
nous meen who will adorn the new
greenbacks of the future! On the new
bills all branches of the government
executive, legislative and judicial. will
be represented. All IF the men select
ed were presidents, excepting Alexan-
der Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin,
John Marshall and Henry Clay. John
Marshall, who for years was chief JUS
tice Of the supreme court. will be the
Jurist represented on the bills Henry
Clay Will be there for the legislators.
Under the new system pictures on all
bills of the same denomination will be
loentlcal, which is not the case at pres
ent. Thus, persons will be sure when
q bill is rendered them that it has not
been raised. The treasury department.
insists that bill raising is the worst
form Of counterfeiting. AS a further
guard against counterfeitin,< the treas
ury department expects to have the
backs of all the bills uniform. so that
they Will have to be handled from the
race where the pictures will be double
assurance that the bill is genuine -
New Orleans Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
A SATURDAY SERMON.

And having food and raiment let us bs
Herewith content. 1 Timothy VI IS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Furthermore, revolution within
revolution is one of those things men
toned in the Scriptures wheel with
in wheel-meaning something that
turns around but never gets any
where.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Gibbs-I admire a man who SAYS the
right thing at the right moment. Dfbbs-
80 do /, particularly when I'm thirsty
Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

This second Mexican revolution
should be abated. 1t is bad form, in
any of the sun-dried countries, to
spring them in pairs. The regulation
is that the revolution started before
breakfast shall not be disturbed by d
second revolution until after 2:S0
o'clock on the afternoon of the same
day.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-22

That star Is beautiful. but 1t is very,
very high Can't you understand? Ask
me to 20 with you to the mountain top
and l will go. ! will help you climb,
but to that star-and / can't"
She had shaken him, as she could al
ways shake him. set him to question
ing the real value Of the purpose that
through forces over which he had no
control, as Ii seemed, had grown until
1t filed his life excluding all else. Her
hand still rested on his arm. yet he
found strength to answer:
You've said it yourself--caring isn't
everything"
He got to his feet slowly. She. too.
rose. With a sudden jealous contrac-
ton of her heart she realized how lit
tie of the grief she had thought to see
was in his look. Strength was there,
the strength to suffer and to with
stand. and something else, almost q
glow. the reflection of a spirit handed
down to this man across the genera
| tons from an age of martyrs who
were glad to pay for their faith. With
great price lie WIS puylis ioi MS
faith. and it became the more precious
| to him.
She found the need to justify herself
before him.
| eat least" she said unsteadily. you
will remember that I didn't pretend
until 1T was too late for you to escape
me and then worry you into going my
way, as many women have done. I'm
not quite so selfish as that. Am |
wholly contemplate:
| He Judged her generously.
"You aren't contemplate. 1t is only
that YOU don't love. Love doesn't bag
gle or try to drag down. You have
mistaken honestly mistaken. some
thing else for it, IL you cared-but
you don't. You will find that out
soon"
| For little she looked at him UNI
waveringly. Then her strength seem
ed to wilt,
'You are right, suppose, and have
missed n great deal. Goodby," ana
went in the house.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-22

two ideals, but--struggling against It.
Of course-toward you. Do you know
i.'r your fault l didn't drift further?
You wouldn't take me. You made a
mistake the night Of that rally, being
so finical in your notions Of poor
mans honor. You ought to have taken
me in your arms and made me 60 to
you. / should have gone-gladly-
faithfully too. But you wouldn't"
He listened unresponsive to her
words that, hating sometimes, fell in
low, measured tones with a curious,
underlying regretfulness.
"Now 1t is too late. I've had time to
think, to weigh you against the other
things. Last winter taught me how
much they mean to me. And ] find
you-wanting This summer has not
changed that. What you ask costs too
much"
II ask nothing"
"True, ] forget-ypn ask nothing
Last summer you need not have asked
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-22

Tie campaign fixed Johns place
firmly II the public ID nd This p8a9e,
one that a practical nan would hive
thought twice before seeking, was Won
Mt the cost or much Of his bnaYanf
optimism. 1t almost cost him his life
also. A heavy cold contracted during
the Inst days OF the campaign eyentn-
ally settled into a stubborn case OF
pneumonia. There were many anxious
days In the Dunmeade home. Nor was
Miss Roberta's anxiety unsharefl
Through three consecutive nights
Hugh Dunmeade never sought his
couch. but Kept n constant vigil by his
sons bedside. listening 70 the painful
breathing and. without protest. to the
reproaches of an inner voice. When
the Christmas holidays arrived John
was still confined to his room.
That winter Senator Murchell varied
his program by spending the congress
sional recess at his legal residence.
And one Sunday morning he came
face TO face with the judge and Miss
Roberta in the vestibule Of the Preshy=
terrain church. 1t was the first meet.
ing in more than two years.
THE doctor tells me John ought to
60 south and won't If it's on account
of-er-money matters" the senator
looked carefully out into the street,
"l'll be glad to help OUT
No. sir the judge put In stif11y.
.if John needs money it is my right
TO provide 1t !" 1t had not occurred to
him before to exercise the right.
.'Stuffp said the senator. 81 know
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-22

country Christmas. One day Miss
Roberta brought to him an armful of
roses sent by katherine.
81 went to call" she explained. ION
Katherine Hnmpden They were ask
ing about you and somebody suggested
sending flowers. So that little Miss
Haines went over the house and got
together all they had. katherine help
ed her" she added. She suggested it."
THAT was very good of her
John, she isn't engaged yet Why"
Us that n conundrum? Probably. I
should say, because she hasn't found
any one with the required combination
of talents and possessions. Or it may
be she has found him and he-let rs
not be too ungallant-doesn't know it"
John. it isn't too late for YOU
1T isn't too-why. my gracious!
Aunt Roberta. she likes nice, sleek.
prosperous gentlemen Honestly now,
you could never fit that description to
me, could your He laughed very
heartily
Size looked at him keenlg. rose to
her feet and went downstairs to pro-
cure vase for the flowers. When she
returned. he WAS staring oddly at
them What she read In his express
sion was not at all mirth.
suppose, lie said abruptly. you
take the flowers downstairs. They
the odor Is a little too heavy
Il thought she said quietly. your
laugh was ovcrdone. John. how much
had your politics to do with-its'
"a little. She thinks. am a fool.
I've found" be added WAT that opin-
ion isn't peculiar 70 her
John" she pleaded wistfnllv. why
won't you quit? You've done enough
Down in your heart. do you want
me 10 quit. Aunt Robertafs
politics has been the rnination of
our family We Dunmeades are all
fooiSs'
We Dunmeadesr You know you
never did n foolish thing in your life,
Aunt Roberta" he smiled
Yes, | did" she answered grimly.
Il HIKE Your kind OF foolishness.'
AUNT Roberta. he said. with fash
Of The boyishness he had almost lost.
you're the worst humheg In Christen-
dom. You think you're Grabbed and
efaaky and practical. when really
you're just Il generous. great hearted.
romantic old dear. You think you've
missed something big and wonderful
aud you're afraid I'm missing 1t, too.
Maybe you have. Maybe | am. But
there are more ways than one of find
ing romance ana happiness. | am not
an unhappy man.
Are Won telling the trutha" she
asked quietly.
The fash of boyishness subsidized. Il
think | am" he answered gravely.
But afterward. when she had gone,
he carefully gathered up the fallen
petals and tossed them into the fre
He watched them quickly shrivel and
disappear.