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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-08
DIPLOMACY WILL
PATCH TROUBLES
OUTLOOK FOR PEACE IN EUROPE
Is MUCH BRIGHTER
NOW.
Peace CONFERENCE FRIDAY
Resources of European Diplomacy
Strained 10 Bring About Peace
full settlement.

LONDON, Dec. Prospects Cor
satisfactory and reasonable rapid set
tlement Of the Balkan war and Of tho
great European interests depending
upon Il seems brighter tonight than at
any time since the allied armies took
the field against Turkey.
The ENJOYS from the Balkan king
doms, Greece--if Greece decides TO
participate, and the Ottoman empire,
will hold the first melting Of the peace
conference next Friday. At the same
time ambassadors of the great powers
at London, charged with the task oi
protecting the interests Of their coun-
tries. will meet as sort of court of
appeals, to watch, advise and admon-
ish the peace delegates.
To reach even this complicated Er-
rangement has strained all the Ic-
sources Of European diplomacy. There
have been times in the last month
when even the consent OF all the gov
, ernments to friendly gathering dp-
peared beyond the range Of possibility.
Austria consented yesterday to join
the ambassadorial conference ana
Germany, which stood aside awaitins
the decision of It's ally, announced It's
asqulesence today.
This will be by far the most i'm
portant assembly OF diplomants since
the Berlin conference after the Russo
Turkish war. Giants like Bismark,
Beaconsfield, Salisbury and Gortcha-
koff. to be sure, will not tread the
stage, but their successors who do Will
have an equally important work 10
perform.
Servia May Give In.
one question, charged with the pos
sibilities of disaster. Is Servias I'M
quenchable determination for an Adri-
attic port and Austria's determination
that she shall not have It. Servian
Official new papers make It plain,
however, that the little kingdom has
made up its mind to take instruc-
tions from the powers so far as puo"
lie opinion in Servia will let it.
A second interesting struggle will
take place over Turkeys endeavor to
hold as much of the conquered terri
tory as Oriental diplomacy and the
help Of friendly powers can save fer
her. The best bargain the sultan can
make probably will reduce his sub
jects in Europe from more than six
. millions to less than two millions, and
the Turk seems reconciled to this.
A third important factor will be
the Greek attempt to gain Saloniki
Besides, various difficult questions
will arise over the commercial status
of the various states, the disposition
Of the Turkish debts attached to the
conquered country and the final
status OF Adrlanople.
Trouble Fedes Away.
That the peace negotiations proper
will be less complicated than had
bcsn feared is promised by the two
facts that Turkey and Bulgaria appear
to have reached an understanding al
ready and that the dissension among
the allies pretended by the failure Of
Greece to sign the armistlce Is most
ly myth, "A pre-arranged plan having
Continued on page ~
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-08
TTIhG W@aGIller

WASHINGTON, Dec, Fore
cast for Oklahoma--Falr sunday
and Monday.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-08

TULSA Dec. THE temper
aturc Maximum 49, minimum
22, southwest winds; clear,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
SAYS UNCLE CAV

If you are looking for fun, working
out your own career is the best game
in the world. 1 have no love for those
bloOdless, steel trap fellows but when
you have reached the point where you
can regard the men about you as so
many pawns, you have achieved wis
dom, and you don't need to curdle
the milk of human kindness within
you in order to be wise.
Business success is more or less like
a game of chess You've got to keep
the field and all it's pieces in mind
every minute and you've got to develop
your mind until it has the breadth and
grasp to know the significance of each
and keep it under control. Most men
let things about them fly to skies and
sevens. You can never be absolute
master of all you survey. Much will
escape you despite your best efforts.
But you can, by touch here and
there, by pushing this, restraining that
bend to your purpose the men and cir
cumstances neglected of others, and,
Whilo the less watchful sleep or feast,
reap the reward of your temporary
mastery.
the game Let all else be impersonal
regard men as so many instruments
and you have attained mastery And
most men, consciously or unconscious
ly, gladly bow their necks to mastery.
Do you work beside an aimless fell
low clerk? A suggestion here and
there will make him your unpaid ser
want. Does this untoward circumstance
or that threaten your present situa-
ion. There Is another side to it and
the wind that will wreck the unwary
will carry the watchful mariner to
his haven Trim Your sails to take
advantage of 1t. A clear head will turn
of it's own use even the Vaccinations
of its foes. The attack that was meant
to DUN you, can, if you are wise enough
and quick enough. be made to yield
you profits.
Make a game of your business. Be
ware the habit of permitting it to be-
come a burden. That way lies the lot
of the packhorse, and most men are
packhorses. Copyright, 1912, by w
z. Williams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Some friends of ours who live in a
mouse built in the days when sunshine
and ventilation were not So much sought
after in house building as they are now
adays. have recently had an extra win
dow cut in one of their rooms This
window faces toward the east Hitherto
that side of the room had been a blank
wall, and consequently the room had
never had any morning sun. Unless you
have ever known similar case you can
scarcely imagine the difference which the
window made i'll that room.
l went in there the other morning and il
difficult to believe that that CHEEKY.
light-flooded, sun-warmed room was the
same cherries place, in which / had so
often sat with my friends
And as I sat there, bathed in the good
sunlight, the thought came to mellow
many of us are living in rooms with
blank walls where windows might be-
For instance, there is that rich old maid
whom | knoW-perhaps you know her too
She has two cats. a maid, a fine home,
and her money These are the well-built
and always well-washed windows on the
southern exposure of her heart home. She
also has half dozen jolly nephews and
neces wor whom she had no use and
whom she almost never sees. The inter
est and happiness these young people
might bring into her life are the sun
shine which beats vainiv on the .southern
and eastern sides of her heart home. For
you see, she has no windows these
exposures.
ana tDel lHeFS Is hTS. Z. MIS- G. Is
forty-five Her one daughter has mar
ried and gone to live in a home of her
own, q thousand miles away. So that
window through which much of her life's
sunshine came is of necessity darkened,
and Mrs c. is very lonesome and thinks
life cherries place. but how many 9TH
er windows Mrs. c. might cut through to
make her heart home more cheerful.
There is the charity work for the poor of
the town, in which her friends have vain
" tried to interest her. There is the
Sunshine society which she has often
been urged to join. There is the crippled
lady across the way There is Mrs. c.
husband who, to tell the truth. seems to
be decidedly uncut window so far as
she is concerned. I know that any OF
these interests would bring a flood OF
sunshine into Mrs C.s life. if she would
but cut through some of these eastern
and southern windows and let the
blessed sunshine in
Congenial friendships spoiled by msun-
Outstanding. opportunities for social ser
vice neglected, chances for culture and
disregarded. the sweetest
relations of life left undeveloped-thes
are a few of the blank walls that keep
out sunshine from our lives.
Are there any in your home?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

1t doesn't strain our optimism an iota
to predict good dandelion crop.
If a loafer wouldn't talk so much folks
might think he was a philosopher.
While an automobile is an expensive
luxury, horse feed isn't so blame cheap.
Then there are men who spend nothing
much on bad habits, who also fail to get
rich.
There is no doubt the man who wears
pajamas feels slightly superior to the
night shirt brigade.
If a mans photograph doesn't flatter
him little, he won't buy many of them
to give his friends.
No one can read all the new books but
many are willing to neglect a lot of good
old ones to try it.
Economical children should have a bank
Mother can't break into when she wants
to make change.
II you crave newspaper noto-iety don't
select the police reporter as your favorite
publicity agent
Man is so conceited it is hard for him
to play the losing end without feeling he
is the victim of conspiracy
ringer prints are a great success for
Identifying criminals, but they aren't
worth while in decorating china
There seems to be a general rule that
typewriter (neuter gender will behave
properly only about six weeks at a time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
QUAKER B1EDITATIoNs.

From the Philadelphia Record.I
Lots OF people look down on others from
a mighty slight elevation.
Don't put your pleasure before your
business unless you want to lose both.
Perhaps it is quite natural. after ali.
that an actress should try to make a
show of herself.
That old adage, Make hay while the
sun SHINES" must have been aimed at the
weather man.
It's human failing, but don't pat your
self on the back just because you happen
to do your duty.
The office that seeks the man is a mil
lion-to-one shot compared with the cred
itor on the same mission.
Tommy-"Pop. what are the highways
and byways?" Tommy's Pop-'The shop
ping district. my SON.
SilIicus-'I wonder why, at a wedding,
the fellow who attends the groom is
called the best mani" Cynicuss-"Be-
cause he isn't getting married"
Blobbs-"Guzzler is always talking
about his lofty ideals" Slobbs-..Yes.
but unfortunately Guzzler's lofty ideals
never seem to get. any ioftier than
high ball.
Muggins-"When I started out last
night had $3.50, and this morning I woke
IN with less than $40 Buggins-"You
must have had a hot time" Muggins-
Yes: it must have been pretty hot to
have burned a hole like that in my
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
ADKERTESLN TALKS


A friend of mine told me recently that
many (too many. he thinks Of these talks
are preachments. He said. Get them
/ down to pure business; tell advertisers
how TO become successful; never mind
the moral side OF business; let that work
itself out; be practical and don't everlast-
ingly point out the weaknesses Of business
procedure"
The only way I know to emphasize the
good in advertising is TO tell how bust
ness houses that practice truth-teliing
succeed. The only way i know how TO
emphasize the bad in advertising Is 20 tell
about the disasters that overtake the
fakirs-the fellows that lie in preference
to telling the truth.
This friend Of mine is down in the Wall
street district. He has many "A time told
me of the high sense of honor that men
in big institutions have.
Only the other day several New York
newspapers commented on the possible
return OF Banker Morse to the financial
district in the hope Of recouping his for
tunes. They published interviews with
bankers. one Of the interviews Is as fol-
Any man in the banking field who
loses his reputation for honesty and fair
dealing can never come back Morse can
never return and do business success
fully
I'VE had an example OF a remarkably
able man who engaged in some specula-
tive banking in a neighooring city His
if they had been carried through, but the
s.fIe was convicted for nothing more
all his ability and the efforts OF stanch
friends, he absolutely could not get back
either in his home city or here.
zone man. president OF "A bank that
failed and afterward paid its depositors
dollar for dollar. could never buy a seat
in the stock exchange or an interest I'm
any stock exchange house. OF course. he
could find brokers to carry a speculative
account for him, and Morse viii have TO
trouble doing that.
But Morse will find If he attempts 10
go into affairs In large way that his
connection with any concern VIII hope
lessly discredit it,
What we are trying to accomplish IN
the field of advertising Is the very thing
that the above interview defines in regard
to the banking business-we don't want
the dishonest advertiser to exist even but
when he does. and is exposed. then We
don't want him to be able Ito come back. %
We don't want even the brokers' in the
advertising business to let him operate
And the work that all OF US can do IN
discriminating the frauds will help All On
terprises that are advertising honestly
(IO be continued
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28

at first denied any knowledge of the
flower, and then remembered sudden
iy that man who was either insane
or florists advertiser came along
and put an American Beauty in all
the cars waiting at the curb. The
story rather dampened my sense of
romance, but since it was not unlike
" I looked at the stem of the rose
to see if there was a florists card at
tached--but there was none. You see.
Faith laughed, mockingly, there is
still hope that I have an unknown ad-
mirer-''
Il doubt if he remains long IN
known" Jimmy Rogers said. with 81
wonderful a ring in his voice that
Faith trembIed and dragged the rose
from its resting place that she might
cool her face in its soft petals.
Jimmy watched the flower with in
creasing jealousy
''OhI Here YOU two arc!" Amy Wade
and her husband came up to break the
silence, I nave looked everywhere for
you" She cast a triumphant glance
at her husband which said plainly, Il
told you So
Il say Jimmy" put in Dick Wade
next time you buy roses for my wife
see that you get full measure. There
was one shy in the box and American
Beauties count. That one Faith IS
toying with just reminded me-"
Faith turned her eyes SO suddenly
and forcefully on Jimmy Rogers that
he felt like a small and very guilty
schoolboy Then he heard her ORA"
in a quick breath. and he waited for
her next words. But she remained
silent, while the glance she sent straight
into Jimmy's eyes was fraught with
understanding. Then, because Amy
Wade and her husband were near
Faith laughed mockingly at him. " GU
look guilty, Mr.. Rogers; I believe the
twelfth rose has gone astray.'
Il will confess Jimmy told her IN
der his breath, that 1 myself would
stray thousand times, if in the end,
might find so wondrous a nest"
Faith glanced at him from beneath
her lashes.
Perhaps one straying, in your case,
would do she emarked.-(COpyright
1912, by Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
AYHAWKER JOTS

Even the clocks were tied up by this
weeks storm.
Keep square with the printer Is
the advice of the Haddam Leader.
Fort Scott must be feeling old. The
Tribune is running forty years ago
column.
Tribune has a society of Sunday
school workers called the Cheerful
Wrigglers.
An advertiser in the Junction City
Union is calling for empty beer and
whisky bottles.
Harper is taking on metropolitan
airs In society in taht town dinner is
served at 6 o'clock.
The two Lindsborg papers have been
consolidated and Miss Carlson remains
as editor of the new paper.
A sign of spring is noted in the juno
ton City Union. It is publishing
Chautauqua announcement.
Sporting note in the Coyville column
Of the Wilson County Citizen: "Claud
Mullikin is wrestling with Ia grippe"
The columns of political announce
T:serts in the Kansas ncvsr pers are
growing longer with almost every
issue.
A milliner at Plains advertises to
take country produce to the extent of
rs per cent of the purchase price of
her wares
1t is reported by the Holton Signal
that one young lady within its purvieW
who took a leap year plunge was told
that he would always be a brother 70
her.
The mayor of La Harpe is named
Jury, which fact leads the Indepen-
dence Reporter to make the suggestion
that everybody in that town gets a
square deal
The Chanute Tribune tells of a citizen
who always had a bad attack of rheu-
matism on the Sundays when there is
going to be a special collection taken
at his church.
The Anthony Republican prints the
following notice: All announcements
in the Republican, except those of the
regular Sunday services in the church.
es, must be paid for at regular adver-
Using rates. This applies to lodges
all kinds of sociaIs, Sunday school
meetings held during the week, liter
airy and sewing and all other varieties
of clubs, and any other meetings not
herein enumerated. Don't ask us to
run them dead head" That won't
pay the printers.
There's a good deal of bosh about
the popular saying that "a smart man
changes his mind, a fool never" The
insurgents are using it a good deal
this year. and Glib Childers, who has
changed his mind in a hundred cam
paigns-for a consideration-is now
being patted on the back by the To-
cal progressives for announcing that
he is tired of Taft ard viii hereafter
work for Col. Teddy. Glib ought to
rank as one of the smartest of the
srnart--Howard Courant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
by THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Webster revised: Consecutive; a
superhuous word that goes without say
ing Example; as when one says; "un-
der no circumstances will I take a
third drink it means that he will not
take third CONSECUTIVE drink.
put that II the guy at the other end
OF the bar happens to lap up one in
the meantime, that let's him out.
Kansas has another advantage over
the eastern states; it can condone 1
rotteh old snowstorm by claiming that
1t is good for the wheat.
Convictions in law are so handy that
1t will not be long before the average
cltlzen VIII be carrying a pocket sized
technicality in case he falls into a well
and needs pulling out.
Rural routes are badly blocked by
the snow, but at that, comma, the ru-
ralist viii get his catalogues from the
congressman before it is too late to
do his spring gardening early.
The favorite exercise of insurgent
poHtlclanS and other unemployed per-
sons, is knocking the corporations; but
the employed persons, who have to get
to the Office ahead of the snowbound
cars, may observe that the walks adj
Jacent to the Santa Fe offices and the
Street Car barns are cleared of snow
before others are touched. Some dis
believer in corporations will try to Kick
the Stats out of this observation by
calling attention to the drifts in front
of the gas Office.
In Washington. a French dancing
girl. dressed in red garters. entertained
a swell society gathering by doing 4
little dancing and a whole lot of sit
ting on married mems laps. The next
day the face-fixers were Vury busy.
The society matrons cracked their
make-ups in a futile effort to look
amused.
And as for the army officer who is
serving a sentence for grabbing public
funds in Alaska, the battling question
is: what could he find to spend it
for in Alaska?
Benson. Arizona, is enjoying its first
sleighing, although Staying" is one
Of the favorite out-and- indoor sports
of Arizona.
To accommodate all the cooks who
desire to ride III on his coat tails,
Roosevelt will have to wear an old
fashioned saddle slicker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28

OF THE SPIRIT
It is not the sunshine bright
Upon the burning sand,
1t is not the tempests might
On the unresisting strand;
But it is an action tender
AS IL a grace it would render
Removes the veil from our mortal sight,
And then we find that stand
In the glory of heavens splendor.
1t is not the music heard
Outringing loud and clear,
1t is not the spoken word
That we are glad to hear;
But it is that tone of feeling
Into our own hearts stealing
From hearts that by our grief are stirred
To the trembling of tear
Their tenderness revealing
Isaac Bassett Choate, in the Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

L
Folly is as plentiful as wisdom isn't.
Industry is the magnet that starts
things our way
History is full of near great men who
failed to come back.
He laughs at scars who has never been
struck for a loan
A man is foolish to stand in his own
light or hide it under a busheI.
The things that do not concern a wom-
an often give her the most concern.
Many a womans good judgment shows
I'D when she leaves it to her husband.
If a mans conscience never troubles
him. its sign that he has it well
trained
Some men are like postage stamps
you've got to lick them before they will
do their duty.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady, we are
told-and the same might be said OF a
faint bank balance.
It is called flattery when other people
tell US the nice things we have always
thought about ourselves.
Some one has defined a gentleman as a
man who kicks the cat instead of swear
ing at his wife when things go wrong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
HUAOR or THE Day

.eWhat did you buy your little son that
expensive mechanical toy for? He isn't
old enough to appreciate it yet I know,
but I'll get a lot of fun showing him how
it Works.'s-Detroit Free Press
Mr.. Exe-What. Another new dress
Perhaps YOU win tell me- madam. how 1
shall get the money to pay for it. Mrs.
Exe-4 gu must excuse me. am your
wife. not your financial adviser-Bosto n
Transcript
I'm quite willing to propose TO him
this year she said, but 1 dread one
thing" And that is2'' Asking his
mother if she'll let him marry me-''-De-
troit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
FROM OTHER PENS
VIZ INvEsrNIENrs

There is great loss among the people
because of their investing In plausible
schemes to make money. II so often hal
pens that people Will invest their money
In some so-called enterprise that some
glib agent Will make appear absolutely
safe, and sure to return large incomes.
and in the end lose il all
II is possible the agents Themselves he
HeNe what they say. but the experience is
that they are mistaken many times more
than they are correct. The true rule in
all these matters is. not to invest in a
thing you don't know Is al right Re
content with a or 4 per cen, dividend
rather than go Laundering through the
swamps for 10 or 20 per cent dividend.
Such dividends are usually "wiil-o'-the
wisps' that tempt one to the edge Of the
precipice and over he goes money. faith.
happiness and all.
So common have been .hese disasters
that Kansas has enacted wha- is known
as the blue sky law" so-caued beca Use
most of these schemes are little patches
of blue sky brought down TO bedizen the
innocent The law makes IL a penal 1f-
Tense for a person to offer shares TN any
company that is not approved BY 1ulfic
authority-a very good law.--Cnio STATE
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-28
Real Hard Luck.

Senator Hutch. 4 had some hard
luck once during my early days
'Elucidate,' said Senator GrabalL
I had just invested my last So in
a meal ticket"
Yes. yes"
AS I started down the street a
gust of wind tore the ticket from my
hand A lumberjack was passing.
wearing heavy hobnailed boots
Yes; go on
And he stepped On my ticket and
punched out s4.S5 kansas City
Journal.