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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
AYHAWKER JOTS

As the Marquette Tribune says II
always makes a man squirm to take
a dose of his own medicine.
The Hope Dispatch wants to know il
you ever saw anybody who Dragged Oil
his pedigree that to any
thing himself.
We believe in being thankful for
small favors even, says the Stafford
County Republican. The federal court
in Kansas has taken a vacation.
This is also the season of the year
when most of the Kansas weeklies are
particular to call attention to the fact
that their column are open to candi-
dates of all parties for the purposes
of political annOuncement-at the pre-
vailing advertising rates.
Editor Bruce. of the
Tribune says he does not buy an auto
have the cash and the other IS that
if he owned one he would take such
good care of it that it would last more
than a year and the new styles come
induce his family to ride in it.
The editor of this moral guide, says
the Soldier Clipper, left Monday for a
trip to the Ozark country. He has
been hearing reports of that country
for some time. Last week he heard
of a farmer who had been injured be-
cause the ~breeching broke and he fell
off his farm. Saturday he vas told
that a gentleman riding along the
road was surprised to see a man drop
into the Dad ahead of him. The
man was badly bruised and scratched
but after a minute or so he got up
and limped away remarking that that
was the third time that day he had
fell out of that potato patch. There
was no keeping Mr.. Nickel at home
any longer and he started on an in
v~estigating trip on Monday. During
his absence this PAPER is for LaFol-
lette and strong on equal suffrage.
Helpful lunches for picnic parties
from the Atchison Globe's own Marion
Harland: If anxious to have the pic
mic a success, invite as many young
folks as possible, old folks don't have
much fun, anyhow, and none of it at
a picnic. Plenty of food is es-
%sential, and a few cakes may be
thrown in for ornamental
So far as our observation extends, no
picnic lunch ever contained too much
or pickles. Go as far
from home as possible, as the journey
will add to the appetite for the lunch;
also for ants and other chronological
specimens which may be gathered
If it aim on your pic
mic day, think how much it will help
the wheat and early corn, and count
yourself lucky. Picnic hosts and host
esses have as hard a time giving sat-
isfaction as those who stay at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
QUAKER
From the Philadelphia Press.1

[From the Philadelphia Press.1
Some people only succeed In being I'LL
successful.
Most of US are full of sympathy-for
ourselves.
A hero is simply a nan We read about
in novels.
Many a man wants the earth simply
that he might ~squander it on some
woman.
The only people who can be flattered
by telling them they are clever are those
who aren't.
The fact that destiny shapes our ends
is what sometimes enables us to see our
finish.
The minute a woman's shoes begin to
feel comfortable she discards them ana
buys a new pair.
The fellow who hates to be alone should
remember that a man is known by the
company he keeps
Blobbs-"How did Tightwad acquire his
wealth." Slobbs-"By giving away MOTH
ing but advice"
Tommy-"Pop what is the difference be-
tween fact and fiction?" Tommy's Pop
.Abou the same difference that exists
between a woman and her photographs,
son."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
POINTED
IFrom the Chicago News.J

IFrom the Chicago Nevs.1
People who. live in clean houses
shouldn't throw mud.
A man seldom generates any steam with
the money he burns.
People who are thrifty are apt to get a
reputation for being stingy.
Unless a woman is a first class artist
she seldom has a good compilation.
Domestic troubles never bother a man
who lets his wife have her own way.
When ministers and public officials are
able to please everybody the millennium
will be at hand.
With the waning of the honeymoon a
man begins to look upon the kisse before
~going-out as a daily task.
During leap year a great many bach
elors of mature years get married-prob-
ably because of the many young widows
on the job.
Nothing disconcerts a girl more than to
brace herself to meet the shock of an IN
expected kiss and the shock fails to show
up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
MARK TWAIN.

The dying rays of setting sun
llumin a spectral slab of white
And burn into the opaque night
A bleeding hearts sad orison:
Warm summer sum-, shine kindly here!
Warm southern wind, blow softly here,
Green sod above, lie light, lie light.
Good night dear heaTti Good night Coco
night!'
Within Gods acres restful shade
The raging winds to zephyrs turn;
The lowly weed and regal fern
Entwine to shield a mound, new-made.
The nations all. their iabors cease
And pause. unshamed, to shed a tear,
That falls unchecked upon his bier
Their white-winged harbinger of peace.
A man of men, from dust to dust
The destiny of each, of all;
A brief sojourn, a single call,
respite-like for like doth lust.
Immortal mani Thy genius traced
A smile where all was pain and care;
And caused a tear to sparkle where
A lightsome heart had care enaced.
Within the deserts golden flare;
Among the peaks, or heather's bloom;
In palace grand, or obscure room;
Adoring hearts breathe forth thy prayer
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here!
Warm southern wind. blow softly here.
Green sod above. lie light, lie light!
Good night. dear hearth Good night! GOOD
night!'
William Edward Ross, in. National
Magazine for June.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Proverbs xf:2o.
Not only are persons of a froward
heart-those individuals who are stub
born, who are not willing to yield and
comply with what is required and what
is reasonable, and thus accepted by
the great majority of folk-not only
are such persons an a~bomination 10
the Lord. as solomon points out in the
words quoted above. They are also an
aEomination to the other portions of
the society of which they form a part
a part, which one may be p~ardoned for
occasionally thinking is all too large a
percentage of the whole.
Probably there is no more disagree
able a trait in humanity than perverse-
ness, nor an equally senseless one, and
particularly so in a state or nation
all folk have the largest possible
freedom. A little perversity well d.
rected is often the medium for the ac-
complishment of much that is good.
But chronic perverseness and %peevish-
ness at all things that exist or are pro-
posed, or at most of them. and which
arc decidedly agreeable to the majority
of the people. only bring those so af-
f1icted into sontempt.
The fault-inder has his place in the
world. 1t is a place, however. hat
needs to be occupied with discretion
and intelligence. On the other hand
there are altogether too many persons
who seem rather to cultivate the GUS
tom of continual complaining with
everything that comes to their notice.
Instead of circulating anything to
their own advantage. or for the benefit
OF others, they actually do the opposite.
Sooner or later they are discovered 70
be the a~bomination that they really
are. And the result is that the cold
shoulder is turned on them. They are
ostracized from the deliber-
atoms of the community in which they
ply their self-attributed and most IN
desirable vocation of public censors.
Nor do such people confine their at
tentions to matters of public concern.
They are always leveling criticism at
the actions of their acquaintance and
neighbors. Much of this criticism is
unjust. All of it is uncalled for. But
to find fault with everybody and every
thing that comes within their ken
seems to be the sole purpose in life Of
men and women. Any number,
are prominent in this class, were
originally blessed with considerable
natural or acquired. And If
they would turn their talents in the
directions. they would be invaiu-
able to their fellows. and get much
more out of life for themselves. As a
matter of fact, though, their repeated
fault-fndings. which may have given
them something of prominence at the
beginning a of the force and
originality used in expressing them.
certain to prove their undoing. Be-
cause they use no discretion in their
criticisms, they eventually become dis
No attention whatever is paid
to anything to which they give voice,
even if it actually has some merit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
HUNOR OF THE DAY

With Leaden Heels.-Gink-Your SON 4.
pursuing his studies at college, isn't her
Dink-I guess so. He's always behind
Judgo
When Voltaire was told that a-g-u-e
was pronounced a-gue, and p-l-a-g-u-e
plague, he said he wished the ague would
take one-half of the English and the
plague the other half.-London Opinion.
When you bait your hook with your
heart the fish always bite.-John Bur
roughs.
Blobbs-I'm in a peck of trouble. I don't
know what to do. Slobbs-Why don't Won
resort to other measures?-Florida Times
Union.
What a golden silence would reign II
people only spoke when they had some
thin to say.-Judge.
Laundried.-"Al new arrivals are wash
ed explained the warden of the prison.
And IL they make a fuss?" Then fhev
are ironed. Sacred Heart.
Mr.. A.-Norah seems quite gone on the
what the girl does? She mails berseIs :
postcard every evening so as 10 rnsLo
sure he'll call the next morning.-Bosto1
Transcript.
Originality sometimes goes too far. for
instance, the Indian that bought a hearsa
for a family carriage--Burlington Hawk-
eye.
cook. did you stay long in your last
placer Il never stays Nowhere lone
enough to be discharged. Use one O. these
here fireless cookers."-Judge.
.Wigg-What do you consider the most
ridiculous illustration of pride? WaggN
When a fellow who wears So pants refer.
to his rousers.-London Opinion.
She Gazed and Gazed.-wise-wa haS
quite a prpominent actress as a guest st
our house the other evening. Ascu-
Gracious. Didn't you find 1T hard ~ ~
tertain her? Wise-Oh, no! She arousnd
herself for hours. We just handed her :
bunch of photographs, among which 49,
and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many people hit others only be-
hind heir ack
y X y
Neither are wild oats sowed in a
straight and narrow row.
y n
If you try hard to do the right thing
you are likely to succeed at it.
" 4
What has become of the old fash
toned man who was devoted to per-
fumed hair-oil?
y * "
If everybody were as deeply inter
eSted in politics as the few who are,
the world would soon come to a
Standstill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New YORK Press.l

IFTOm the New 1ork Press.I
1t Just seems to be a woman's natural
genius to swell her husbands swell head
sweller.
It's just the way of their sex for the
sweetest girl to be the ones
that ate the most sour pickles.
The greatest genius in the world is that
of the woman who knows how to tuck
away her weight when it's too much.
How big a IS bill looks to a man depends
on whether he is borrowing it from a
friend or giving it to his wife.
When a man tells a girl he loves her,
its only a one-millionth part instaliment
of more of the telling the same thing she
expects him to do inside of the next three
days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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IN YOU like a 1aily letter from home.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Evidence OF the purely political sell
hshness of many of the Roosevelt Lead
ers is to be found in their determine
ton not to bolt the convention. Such
action would cook their political geese
at home. They're not fighting for a
principle Personal political power is
what they want. They figured it out
that a Roosevelt success would mater
tally assist them in their ~endeavors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If a giraffe is high is q buffalo?
mo, Phyllis. a political bolt is not
made of iron.)
If a duck can swim can a sparrow /?
(Beat it, boysi Here comes a cop.)
Could you call an enthusiastic chauf-
feur an automobile crank?
(You1l all AVE to get out and push
the machine up this HILL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

ours will be a model convention
said Mr.. Bryan the other day. And it
will be modeIe apparently after the
Republican affair. At the drop of the
nat. Mr.. Bryan proposes to %precipitate
a fight against the selection of Alton
8. Parker for the temporary chairman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
KANSAS cOAAENT
D MONEY

Secretary MacVeagh has an
nounced that he will distribute the
millions of Confederate money that
has been lying in the treasury for
forty-five years tc the museums in the
country as the best means of dispos-
ing of it. How many millions OF II
were issued by the Confederate gov
eminent is not known. Besides the
circulating notes, there were vast
amounts of bonds issued and these
bonds were regularly dealt in up to
as late as 1888, as certain English
men held to the idea that some time
the United States government would
redeem them. There was never a
more complete demonstration of the
quantity theory of money than in
these issues of the Confederate gov
eminent. Just in proportion that the
printing presses turned them out
their value declined. They had value
of some sort up to as late as 1853
when they had a purchasing power of
six cents on the dollar. After that
they became worthless. OF course
prices rose as their quantity in
creased, just as did the northern
money.-Ottawa Republic.
%
THE BLIND WHO SEE.
General William Booth, h venera-
BILE head of The Salvation Army. is
declared by his physicians to be hope
lessly blind. We think that they put
it wrongly. Booth is not hopelessly
blind. He has but lost his eyesisht.
Blindness is the most terrible of all
mans physical Affections, ordinarily,
but it is not so in the case of this man.
Booth has spent the largest part of his
lifetime of nearly ninety years in try
ing to do good to others. He has not
needed eyes to see where help was
needed. Eyesight has not determined
how to help. Luxury, worldly ambi-
ton have passed by unseen by him, for
his sight was wholly spiritual. In our
mental musings, in Jul dreams, in our
best ambitions, we have vision withou
the / of eyes. The spiritual sight is
strong and never hopeless. To Booth
the material things of this earth have
long been very dim and to him whose
whole existence has been so strongly
spiritual the total eclipse of physical
vision cannot mean much of a change.
"Hopelessly blind?" Nay. the good
old man is one of the blind who really
seei-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

IF lew York's delegation to the DEM
ocratic convention insists on naming
the temporary chairman, it Will nave
its way. This delegation is 80 strons
and is unipstructed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

That dreamy indefniteness of most
cf the platform proposed by the Roose-
welt forces may possibly be explained
by the fact that the bull of it was
whipped into shape by Gift Pinchot,
Jimmy Garfield and Bill White.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

for a big corn crop are excellent. Al
falfa has thrived in Kansas this year
as never before. The same is true Of
almost everything that can be grown in
Kansas. And so, it won't matter much
to Kansans how the political wheel
turns. Nor are many of them worrying
about it. except the professional poll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

New York authors are organizing
for mutual benefit" If the poets ar
included, it is to be hoped that the
new organization will declare a strike
that Will take a permanent form.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report of that great news or
Kanfzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puT-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Even if the Cuban rebels destroy the
tobacco crop of the little republic as
they threaten, there will be no diminu
ton in the supply of wa cigars.
as lone as the Connecticut tobacco
rsisers keep busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

If the Republican convention ruf
over into next week for two or three
days, what will the Democrats do for
star newspaper men to tell the people
all about their shindig2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Mr.. Bryan is getting keen enjoyment
out of the Republican convention. Pos
sibly he won't be able to do the same
at the Baltimore affair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Mr.. Dixon may be a member of the
upper house of congress but he can get
some valuable pointers on directing
campaigns for presidential nominations
from Mr.. -IcKinley, a member of he
iouror hoaSe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

City Commissioners Miller is to be
congratulated for his persistent efforts
to develop the water plant into one that
will assure Topekans an adequate sup
pIy of excellent water all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

No wonder there has been so mucf
loose talk in Chicago. The towns sup
ply of ~bartenders doesn't come neal
eoualing the demand for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

In being willing to lead a new party
Colonel Roosevelt is also willing 10 at
tempt to ruin the party that has hon.
ored him as much. if not more tina
auV other man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

should the Chicago convention con-
tinue much longer not a few or the
delegates and visitors will either have
to go without eating or sell their return
trim tickets and walk home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

There have been many predictions
that this was a Democratic year, but
was any prophet so reckless as TO pre-
dict that it would be a washington
ball club year?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Does the remarriage of the Jack Cud
ahys confirm the theory that rue Low
never runs smoothly?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

A little more FRAMEWORK and less talk
on the part of the Roosevelt forces
might have resulted to their advantage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

And the colonel is just itching for an
opportunity to toss his hat into an
other ring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Reports now have it that Kansas is
in for a big fruit crop. A big wheat
crop is already assured. The chances
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
THE JAPANEsE REGGAR.

Directly a policeman Of one station
describes a beggar he kicks him away,
no matter whittier. and another police
man of another station catches hold of
the fellow and throws him out of his
area, and SO on, with the c~onsequenc
that beggars, after wandering from one
ward to another and back again, ulti-
mately settle down in the regions of
the least resistance. namely, the sub
urbs. The latest happenings prove III
suburbs are fast becoming the center
of mendicity and criminality. Ths
Mainichi therefore begs the authorities
ito adopt a positive instead of patch
work policy advocating an EXHAUSTIVE.
study of the problem. Another plan liz
that the teachers of primary schools
be called upon to impress upon the
emotional youngsters the utter des-
~picability of beggars. so that the
n generation may consider beg
gars as those deserving to be kicked
out for their laziness or to be main
tanned by public charity, rather thar
as poor fellows meriting individual as
sistance.-Tokio Mainichi.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
FROM III PENS
THE WIRELESS coNFERENCE.


When the last international wireless
conference was held in Berlin six years
ago the questions discussed were of so
little public interest that the meeting
was allowed to pass ~unnoticed-
1t is different now. The present in
ternational conference in London will
determine questions in which the world
has come to take a very lively interest.
This interest might not have been SO
great had not the circumstances of the
Titanic disaster made so profound ali
impression on the public mind, but in
any event it would have been consid-
erably greater than was manifested NJ
1906.
Then the wireless was regarded as
an invention possessing many wonder
full possibilities. Now a large number
of these possibilities have been realized,
and the invention has entered into the
lives of nations and their peoples. II
bears a very intimate relation to mod
ern progress. 1t has scored many tri-
umphs and seems destined for still
more, particularly if that wise regula-
ton hat can only be obtained by in
ternational agreement is forthcoming.
Cincinnati News-Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
A sATUROAY SERMON.

They that are of a forward heart are
abomination to the Lord; but such as are
upright in their way are his delight.
Proverbs xi 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

Yesterday was the first day of sum-
mer. The day was celebrated by a
number of young flies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

II was also, according to scientif
measurement, the longest day of TIL
year, but we still hold that the longes
day is Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22

The great T r Attempt was made N
the face of rules and precedent, but as
he has about as much use for rules
and precedent as a duck has for a pain
of rubber boots, he cared not.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1912-07-09
Blue Ribbon For Beckham

SO lar as Kentucky Is concerned
J. c. W. Beokham holds all the hon.
ors in the estimation of Gov. Wood
row Wilson. Mr.. Bryan and the 9TH
er national leaders who were res.
ponsible for the nomination of the
New Jersey candidate for President
Early in the CAMPAIGN Gov. Beck
ham in a public statement declared
himself for Governor Wilson, and
while abiding consistently bv the
Clark instructions given BY the State
convention, he voted with Mr.. Bryan
in the fight for control Of the Nat :
-ionnl convention organization and is
easily first among the Kentuckians
in the confidence of the nominee for
President and of those who will be
his advisers in the impending cam
paign. When Gov. Wilson becomes
President Wilson everything of i'm
portance affecting Kentucky will be
decided only after having been sub
mitted to Gov. Beckham for consid-
Grafton and advice.-Frankfort State
Journal.