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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

stable, he did get a letter from the
postoffice, and he did lose it in front
of this house. That letter spoke of a
bloody affair to come off last night
Miss Nelly, who found it and gave
justice her first sIeW, is entitled to
and shall receive all due credit If
she has photo to spare, will see
that it is published in the papers,
But is Mr.. Gale under arrest %
asked the puzzled girl
Being he is IS innocent as that
that fireplace, he can't be, can he ?''
'-Then what is all this about?"
will you please let me explain %
asked the young man.
Some one ought to-.
Il own a bulldog. IT,
should have been clipped and his
tail cut off months ago. 1t was done
last night 1 had a friend come from
the city to help 1t was bloody af
fair. The constable here walked in
on US in the midst of it. It's all very
simple when you know about it"
But had they murdered the old
miser," began the officer, when he
was taken by the arm and led to the
door.
There is always a way of getting
around q situation. Joe Gale found
that way in this case. He had to
call to beg pardon, and to call the
constable an ass, and to report on
how the bulldog got along, and by
and by he had the cheek to call with
out any excuse whatever. And later
still he did not have to call because
they were married. copyrighted
1912 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
Eat Alum for Cash.

Twelve University of Pennsylvania
medical students who need the mon
ey'' have put their bodies in the care
of the United States government for
experimental purposes and formed an
eating squad which meets morning,
noon, and evening to eat government
food, prepared with different kinds of
alum, in order to test the effect it
will have on their systems.
The experiments are being carried
out by DR.. Alonzo E. Taylor, of the
Remsen board, assisted by fourteen
government chemists. The squad mas
been eating alum for some time and
shows no i'll effects. Its members will
continue on the governments diet IN
til June. The members of the squad
receive their board and So a week.
The danger of being injured by the
food amounts to practically nothing,
as each man is watched by Dr. Alfred
Stengle, the physician appointed by
the government to watch out for the
men, They are examined almost
daily.
on the squad of twelve men there
are two controllers who eat the
same food without the alum None OF
the twelve men knows who these two
men are. DR.. Taylor says he does rot
want the psychic elements to enter in
to the experiments. The results of the
experiments viii not be known for a
year=Philadelphia dispatch to New
York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.I

[From the Chicago News-l
The fIatterer never lacks an audience.
Are the friends you buy worth the
price,
Worry is probably the most relentless
enemy of success.
Enjoy the good things of Iife-but don't
be one of them.
A man seldom improves his time by
tinkering with his watch
Many woman gets what she wants
by saying that she doesn't want it
And lots of married men act as though
they wished they were widowers-
Ever notice how much more interesting
things are that you don't understand?
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but
magazine writers find it less profitable.
fast young man doesn't get very far
unless his father is willing to pay his
running expenses
Women are naturally of clinging ma
ture-and so are some men, judging by
the way they hang on to their money.
The young man who tells a girl during
leap year that he could listen to her
voice all the rest Of his days takes des-
perate chances
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NIideet seeks Citizenship.

Samuel Goldstein. who. with the aid of
2-inch heels and a severe strain on his
backbone, brings the top of his head 3
feet II inches above the sidewalk, and
tips the beam at IS pounds, applied at the
office of County Clerk Schneider for his
naturalization papers. He is the smallest
alien that this city has ever added to its
population
try from Odessa, Russia, with his par
ents in 1891. When, at the age Of 10 or 20,
he found himself still able to squeeze into
a Youths size suit without splitting the
seams he looked about for method of
turning his small stature into commercial
value. and since that time he has orna-
mented the fronts OF various moving pic
ttlre palaces and the offices of painless
dentists. He has also added to the gay
etv of nations at Coney Island
The half-portion citizens parents are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few people can be found who do
not enjoy music-made by bank
notes.
Times flight is not very rapid to
the man whose pay days are far apart
=
Serving two masters is not an i'm
possible task in the case OF Wdllei-
Here's a chance for the reform ers.
Why not start an agitation to prohibit
twins from dressing alike2
X X y
IT takes most folk six weeks or two
months to recover from the financial
shock. occasioned by Christmas.
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FROM OTHER PENS
TAFT NOT AN ADVERTISER.

A Michigan man brought to the capitol
in Washington the renewed assurance
which we're scarcely needed-that Prcsi-
dent Taft is TO stick. As this White
House caller put it, The president feels
that there is no good reason why he
should Withdraw from the presidential
race. He believes he has done nothing
of which he should be ashamed. although
he has made mistakes. and that his duty
lies straight before him''-which is a true
and judgTnaticaI statement OF the case.
But this caller was Impressed with the
fact that the president did not know
how 10 advertise" -sor1 ething that IS we'll
known to the American people. and
stands out all the more because Mr.. Tart
followed the greatest master OF personal
publicity this country has even seen. 1t
is perfectly manifest that a. lot of our
folks enjoy a daily-we had almost said
an hourly-circus. But is IL not possible
that with large mass OF thinking people
it is still possible for virtue TO be its own
reward. that good work done in so many
lines will not escape that large compcn-
sating recognition which II deserves
Many of would like to think so. His
tory is bound to give President Taft a
good raung-and It is possible that his
fellow-citizens in great numbers are even
now ready to do So It should not be alb
solutely necessary for a president to be a
great gallery player--Springfield Repub-
Hcan.
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SONGS sWEEr ETERNrrY.

We live in loftier regions when we sing.
For song instinctively seeks finer air
Than that wherein we daily drudge and
fare.
Vexed by the garrulous worlds gross
murmuring-
Song scars with sudden. swift. exuitant
wing
To far ilIimitabIe heights from where
Earth seems feeble, vague. inconstant
glare
Of slender light which little joy may
bring.
If love were not no song would ever be,
For love and song are gloriously one;
Hence song is love. is immortality;
And when the awful universe is done,
When Time is dead, by loves divine de-
cree
Songs sweet eternity is but begun.
-Alanson Tucker Schumann, in the Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Where clustering fails TO impress, q
gentle word makes interiors of our
EQUALS The strongest force in tire
world is the firm, dignified, unWaVer-
wrath, bids boasting be dumb and
bushes the voice of intolerance.
There is none so safe as this "strCng
man armed" and sufficiently conscious
OF his strength to be kind. By the same
token, there is none so magnificent. He
knows the primitive moral of the yelp-
ing, harmless jackal and the silent
deadly lion. He boasts not, neither does
he seek a quarrel. When the Jackal
howls at the moon, he remains in the
background, unseen, unheard, and mon
arch of his kind. When he does give
tongue it is in a roar full OF terrible
import. Behind the silken pads of his
paws are the steel claws that NanQulsh
the jackal and all his noisy tribe
There are soft answers that are mere
ly whires-the apologies of coWardlce
for it's mere existence. Here is no viz
tue, but degradation The soft answer
that avails is the lions paw-Gentle and
Silken, but deadly when the need arises.
This is the essence of diplomacy and
diplomacy is the essence of success
neither to buster nor to threaten, but
rather to be gentle and unoDtruslve I'M
til the occasion demands fight and then
to fight.
Strength has no need of noise; it
speaks best through dignified words
and true. So we'll do garments of gem
tlcness become strength, and so We'll
do soft words express it, that we nave
come to recognize violent speech and q
show of force as evidence Of weakness
There is no real strenth without dig
nifty, and neither boasting nor lntoler-
ance nor wrath-manifesta OF
weakness, alI-can stand unabashed
when dignifed strength utters its sort
Copyright, 1912, by W. T.
NNilliamSO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

All of the more or less distinguished
gentlemen who are calling on Colonel
Roosevelt these days are most particu-
lar to state in their subsequent inter
views that he is not a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomination.
Then they grow confidential with their
interviewers, wink their eyes in 4 sly
fashion and remark almost soto Voee
that it is their personal opinion that
Colonel Roosevelt would accept the
nomination were it offered him. In
other wcrds they do their best to "a
tempt to convey the impression that the
colonel actually is a receptive candidate
when he insists that he isn't a candi-
date in any sense of the word.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
HUlN0R or THE Day

Comes nov = report from the Other
Side that cfaby Des Lys has married
an American; but, as you may haze
observed, tie foreign correspondents
never miss a chance to slam an Ameri-
can
Visitor-So your aunt who went TO live
in New York died from excessive eNer-
cise2 Uncle Eben-Yep- She thought she
mad to run across the room, TO the window
every time anybody went by--Puck.
Plumdun-Here' a man mentioned in
this paper who is 100 years old and can
walk ten miles at a stretch. Goodgun-
Pooh. / can do that easy. and I'm not
helf as old he is.-Browning Maya
zina
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
SLICED A COG.

The unexpected has happened again
The supreme court OF Kansas has actual
" decided a liquor case against the state.
IT holds that thirsty Kansans may chip
in and buy booze. and drink IT together.
in quiet and stately way, but there
must be no undue hilarity. The limits
as to when and where they may collec-
lively quench their thirst is still some
what open question. May they assem-
Bile in a. room provided for that purpose,
and if so, how often? Or must they meet
under the silent stars or the shiny SUM-
Until these important questions are fully
answered by the court the bibulously in
clined should not get too gay. It should
not be taken for granted that the liquor
clubs may open up for business in wet
open to construction and Imitation
Onaga Herald.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press-l
What makes a man a good husband is
not to be too sure he is
Some men can convince themselves that
the Ten Commandments are against the
law
4 girl would much rather freeze to
death than wear what her grandmother
did to keep warm
The comfort of being entirely bald is
YOU don't have to worry yourself to death
over it might get worse.
The best way fer a man TO be desir-
able husband for a girl is for her mother
to think he has some money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Can IT be possible? Here are the Re
publican insurgents in the house Of
representatives accusing their erstwhile
Democratic pals Of applying the gag
rule Some day the smart RepubIi-
can insurgents will wake up to the fact
that the Democrats Joined with them
two years ago to smash the Republi-
can control of the house for purely
political purposes. not for righteous
ones
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DAFFYDMS
BY y. NOALL.

If all the dogs were muzzled would the
cold-snap?
(That rasping noise? It's merely the
song of a soul.)
If the Lake Shore train ran around
in a circle would it B & OF
CHats off. Here comes Bobby, the
boy actor
When the physician fails can the
manicure2
CHelp! Helpi! The cat has swallowed
the canary0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Until it approached the realm Of pos
sEbdHty, the rest Of the world believed
that everybody in ireland was anxious
for home rule. Ano now appears that
there is a considerable sentiment in that
land opposed to the proposition. But,
then. no plan can be advanced that will
be favorable to the whole people Of any
one land. Human nature makes such
a thing impossible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

The TiIlman- watterson-H Harvey Will
son episode has become such a tangled
affair that its unravelIing seems to be
an irnpossibility Isn't it unusual that
so many and such differing versions Of
an affair of this sort can come from
gentlemen Of such intelligence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Governor Stubs insists that there is
q genuine demand on the part of the
American people that Colonel Roose-
welt become a candidate for the presi-
dency. Maybe this is the same sort of
"a genuine demand as was the one on
the part Of the people of Kansas for
special session of the legislature which
Governor Stubs was in touch with
some time ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Anti-cisarette enthusiasts can get lit
tie satisfaction out of the fact that the
United States holds the honor of being
the greatest igarette-smoking nation
in the world. no less than 10000, 600 of
the .'coffin-nails'' having been consum-
ed here during the past year. And es-
pecially in view of the further fact that
all ov-- the n<-Ion material inroads
are being made on the general death
rate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Another declaration has come from
the new republican government of
China that the throne must be abdica-
ted forthwith. In no other respect do
the Chinese Republican, show better
their ABSORPTION of modern ways than
by their avidity to use words instead
- <5eaI=
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

A diet specialist recommends cheer
fulness at meals, notes the New York
World. and it continues: AS there is no
tariff on cheerfulness and the cold
storage people and the middlemen and
the grocer do not deal in it, perhaps it
can he arranged.
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THE TRuTH HuHrs.

mo man can draw watch on me-" -
the language used by a man working hy
the day a carpenter, when the owner
of the building looked at his watch on the
arrival date OF the man. Such was tes-
timony in court one day last week II -
one of the strange characteristics OF hui
man nature that the wrong doer OF what
a. attempts TO bring the truth straight
home to him. The lout who soldiers" on
his job doesn't want anyone TO look at
his watch. The short-change fellow
doesn't want the money counted. The
dishonest man does not want books
checked up. The gambler is among tire
loudest to talk about honor" Even the
lecherous may be very prudish to ordi-
nary observations. c. Ruppenthal IN
LuraV Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Those gloomy countenances you pass
on the streets these DAYS are engen-
dered by the announcement that the
cold wave is scheduled to play a return
engagement hereabouts, beginning at
the close of this week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

If the king and queen of England
visit this country they won't get much
of an idea concerning the happiest and
most attractive side of American life
unless they come out into this section
of the land
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

We're it not for the fact that Colonel
Roosevelt has some private means that
$4,000 salary he gets from the Outlook
wouldn't go very far, so extensive must
be his alI-comers' luncheon bills.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Our idea OF a financfer. says the Gal
weston News, is one who can borrow
nL lot of money without security or Sc
cure q lot Of It without borrowing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Treasons treason. Jimmy Garfield
Hechnes to say whether he favors Col
Dnel Roosevelt or Senator LaFo1lette
for the Republican presidential nominal
zion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Just before the big dinner came to
an end. Ex-Governor Bailey was asked
to make a few remarks in the way of
a benediction. The benign and benaff-
cent manner and language of the ex-
governor was particularly effective and
happy. He we'll said, that if the party
could not win upon the remarkable
achievements of the present admins
tration and could not win this year
with Taft, that it could not win with
anybody, and might well be defeated in
fighting for the political cause and for
the principles and performances as ex-
emplif1ed by Taft, the party leader.
The meeting was strictly a presi-
Dental preference proposition. other
offices and the candidates therefor in
volving other than the highest in the
gift of the people were practically ig-
nored. There was but little reference
to the gubernatoriaI position, or any
candidates therefor, and no enthu-
siasm in that connection. This was
unusual on the eve of the state cam
paign which shows that national con
ditions are paramount in the eyes and
thoughts of the five hundred or six
hundred who came here from all parts
of Kansas to get inspiration and food
for the coming campaign now at hand.
(Chapter LxXxVIII Wednesday,
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both of more than normal height, his
father. Israel Goldstein, a tailor, of East
Third street standing nearly feet,
while his sister is a particularly large
woman.-New York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

Crude oil should not wax unusually
enthusiastic on the way 1t has gone up
lately. Hair oil has been doing the
same ching ever since it was first
brought into existence.
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MEAsIJRING LONDoN's soon.


For the purpose Of determining how
much SCOT falls in London as the result
of the 100000 tons OF bit11ninous coal
annually consumed there, the weillknoWn
medical Journal. the Lancet. recently
made observations for year. using four
gauges similar to rain gauges, each hay
ing an area Of four square feet
The deposit falling annually on London
is, according to the experiments, between
$3.50 and 5000 tons. the former reprc-
sentines the result Of the observations IN
the clearest and the latter in the smoldest
part of the metropolitan area At the
least this means about ~ pounds per
acre per day. This, of course. represents
waste I'm burning coal, but no one yet has
found out how to prevent such waste.
The matter deposited consists OF carbon,
more or less oily taTry. sulphates,
cholrides and ammonia
A similar measurement in Chicago
might give us some interesting figures
for comparison. 1t has been computed
that the smoke in London causes a direct
loss of $25,O00OOO a year In damages to
buildings, fabrics and works Of art.
What is the cost in human iife2 That
cannot be measured but II may be great.
Chicago Record-Herald.
REDUCE SIZE OF THE LEGISLATURE
Governor Woodrow Wilson in his first
annual message advocates that steps be
taken to return to a system OF assembly
districts IN place OF county delegations to
the legislature. This suggestion is quite
in harmony with that OF Delegate Walter
Brown. made some weeks ago, which pro-
vided for reducing the size OF both houses
of our legislature.
1t is hoped Mr.. Brown will press that
point. 1t is in the line Of progress. It
is getting out OF the old ruts. But there
is the trouble-so many people think the
old ruts are sacred They are afraid OF
a change. But we need a change in this
respect. We have had the old style long
enough. Half Of the complaints against
state government are against the legisla-
1ature-fOr its extraNa gance, Its Incidence.
its carelessness. its negligence, it's delays.
its inefficiencies. It is time to change
something. Half OF the members are not
needed in the legislature Ihey don't 90
anvthing but sit around and vote as the
committee reports. Reduce both house
and senate one-half. That's progressive
Ohio State Journal
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YOUR DUTY TO IOUN 10 " y, =
We owe it to the community IN when
we live to do everything we can IN every
way possible that will be 10 its adNan'-
age. Our neighbors' prosperity means "A
great deal more to us than some one
who lives elsewhere. We should bear thia
in mind in buying our goods. we can al
ford to pay our home man firm price
for his wares rather than send our money
away, knowing as we do that every do.-
lar expended with our own citizens VIII
help in sustaining our schools, churcie9
and public nstitutions.-Burrton Free
Lance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

The Kansas Day Club meeting and
dinner are now in the realm of the
"Reminiscences The anniversary of
the birth of Kansas, of Mckinley and
of the club as celebrated in Topeka
this week is well worth while place
in the memory of politicians and of
the people. 1t was a great day That
is conceded and remarked. The oc-
casion was emphasized in the capital
city of Kansas by one of the finest
gatherings of representative Republi-
cans. both young and old, ever gath
cred together in the Sunflower state.
There We're keynotes sounded
whose echoes will go down the days
and weeks and months that fonoW,
and to that extent at least the corri-
doris. of time.
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KANSAS CONTENT
or HERE In KANsAs.

OUI HEItEl N F-ltI7 -
Ninety-six counties Of the 100 IN h.t-
sas have no inebriates. Thirty-nine couAl-
ties did not send a prisoner to jan last
wear. There are only four men for every
1000 OF the population Of Kansas con
fined in jail. There were 9l2 prisoners III
the penitentiary last year but only ~ ~
cent of this number were Kansas born
Fifty-seven counties in Kansas nave no
use for poor houses and last year DID not
send a person to them E1gnty-lour Sou.-
ties last year did not report a case OF ir-
sanity. The death rate in Kansas IS les
than in any other section OF the world
seven per ] 900 of the inhabitants.-Oska-
loosa Independent.
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CHAPTER IxxxVu.

''Where'er you meet a Kansan,
I care not where it may be,
Under the pines of the mountain,
Out on the waves of the sea;
Whenever he speaks of Kansas
His eyes will the brighter glow
For every Kansan loves the land
The Land where the sunflowers grow. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30

The Kansas Day Club charter: IAN
organization to promote Republican
ism, and to call together socially the
young Republicans of Kansas upon
the anniversary of the states admis-
sion to the union