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The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Trifies turn men from greatness. The
organizer is the conqueror and no man
who permits a multitude of details to
draw his attention from the general
scheme of things is, destined to rise
above mediocrity. If you are so con-
stituted that you cannot forget detail
in working out the grand plan, you are
designed for an underling. Unless you
break your scatterwit habit, you will
remain an underling though the wealth
of the world were poured into your
incompetent hands.
There is of course, no such thing as
success if trif1es are ignored. But the
master mind takes quick account of
petty things consigns them to their
place in his plan and passes on to the
consideration of the whole 1t is the
power to see a multitude, of details as
one complete and undivided unit that
distinguishes the leader from the led
Given industry and persistence
here is a very simple receipt for sue
cess: Master details but pay less at
tention to the details than to the re-
lations of the details one to the other
and to the whole.
No man ever learns how to drive
spikes well enough to direct the opera
ton of railway. 1t is the man who
knows just what relation those spikes
bear to operation and to dividends who
sits in the presidents office.
You may be the best bookkeeper in
the world, but you see only the ac-
counts in relation to themselves and
not in relation to the buying and SELL
ing and transportation and credit de-
partments, you have no hope of becom-
ing general manager. The fact that you
are the most skillful piece worker in
the factory is to your credit, but if
your attention is confined to that one
of the thousand details that compose
the activity of the company owning
the factory, you'll be a piece worker
until you wear out or get fired.
1t is the larger view that counts
The world has need Of skilled detail
men. Industry would die without them.
But the best that your labor union can
do for you is small beside what you
can do for yourself if you grasp the
bigger thing and make it yours.
The little things tend to wear you out
and crush you. The big things lift you
up and make you master of little men.
Too much attention to trif1es turns men
from greatness.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
a Model Farm in China.

The Baltic model farm or colonization
scheme has 160 acres of it's 1,000-acre
farm on Purple Montain, under culti-
walton. Purple Mountain is just out
side the Nanking city wall, and the
surplus products of tie farm will find
q ready market either in Nanking or
in Chinese cities along the railway.
over 100, ,OC0 trees have been set out.
including 1000 fruit trees from Califor-
nia-a gift from an enterprising nurse
ry-which have grown most satisfac-
tory. The percentage of loss in the
American trees is Insignificant. Among
the trees planted are apple, peach,
mulberry, pear, elm, and many Chi
nese and Japanese varieties.
Professor Bailie is now engaged In
collecting forest tree seeds from all
countries He has several hundred
thousand seedlings which were grown
on the farm this year, and intends
to set out 100000 or 3400. 900 trees next
wear. He is at work on the enlarge
ment of his scheme so as to induce the
government to take over the project in
order to carry out a rather novel af-
forestation idea. The plan. is to put
farmers on the mountains. provide
them with means of subsistence and
workmen, until their farm of to G
acres is broken up and planted and
then plant q certain adjoining plot
with forest trees. the safe nurture OF
which Will give the FARMER clear title
ii his farm. This scheme will require
millions Of trees, and it might prove
advantageous to other large American
nurseries to follow the Californioan
nurseries by sending a sample con-
signment.
Farmers who live in the lowlands
will be required to pay for their farms
on easy payments. and the size of the
farms will be limited to not more than
10 acres. If a man proves shiftless, he
viii lose all and be required to move
away, and make room for the indus
trious poor. The Nanking farm is to
be kept as an experiment station, and
as the project grows. similar stations
will be opened in other localities
Daily Consular and Trade Reports
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many New Years resolution is all
ready doing duty in the discard.
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Too many people labor under the de-
fusion that they are getting the worst
Of it,
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Few are the men who are not OBJ
sessed with an exaggerated idea of
their own Importance.
p II -
Doesn't it make you angry TO pay
Sc for pair of shoes and couple of
weeks later see the same kind ION
sale" for $4.95?
- s& -
Leap year is gone. But every girl
has card up her sleeve that will
bring almost any young man to the
point of proposing, if she so desires.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
WoRDs NOT IITERATURE.

1t is strange what foolish ideas pre-
vail about writing. A sample folly is
that of the young man, s. Cruso by
name. who wrote to a judge in KAN
sas City, asking to be ''sent up" for
three years. He explained that he
wished to master the spelling and
meaning of every word in the diction-
ary and a prison alone could furnish
him the necessary leisure, calm and
freedom from outside Interruptions.
'In case you should reject my ap-
plication on the grounds that you
have no right to convict an honest
man without a charge against him"
wrote Cruso, ST am willing to COM
NIT something that will give jurisdic-
tion.''
This young man has an entirely
wrong theory, though. to be fair, it IS
shared by many. Words do nor make
literature, no matter how fine-sound-
ing and grandiloquent they may be-
The faculty, the facility rather, of
stringing them together in a pleasing
way is of little more consequence
The importance of style is vastly over
rated. That is only means to the
end. 1t merely makes the journey
you take WIN an dulhoI 81 mum
more agreeable.
The main thing is to have something
to say, a story to tell, beautiful
thought, a poetic idea, the ability to
see character. situation; to Gevise
plots, to stir emotions.
And when any one of these gifts is
writers-it is only the chosen of
the gods who has more than one
then the more simply the thought IS
expressed, the idea phrased, the great
er the effect. Stained glass win
dows are beautiful, but they don't let
the light through in the right way.
They color and distort it. And pom
derous, a pompous, a merely literary
style, hampers the free natural ex-
preston of the writer.
The way between two minds should
be as clear and as straight as it can
be made. Then the contact is quick
and sure.
The best writers are the simple
ones and this simplicity is usually
matter of work and worry. For
tunate, indeed, is the man to whom it
is a birthright. Stevenson 'slogged
away like a blacksmith" to master
his limpidity. De Maupassant, whose
every word tells in narrative or de-
scription, served the severest kind of
apprenticeship for seven years before
he was allowed to print single story.
If Mr.. s. Cruso had asked to be
marooned from the world, as was r.
Crusoe, to study how few words he
needed, then his request would have
been more commendable.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
HUN0R OF THE DNY

did that young man kiss you last
night? Mother do you suppose that he
came all the way up here just to hear
me sing?'-Cornell Widow.
did you lose much in that bank failure
Jim?" asked Hawkins. II should saw /
did, said Slabsides. IT had an overdraft
of S163 in that bank, and gee! how 1 had
to hustle to make goodT'-Harper's
Weekly.
Jennie-He must have a soft spot in his
heart for me. Wennie-Why so? Jennie
He says he is always thinking of me-
Wennie-But, you know, a man doesn't
think with his heart. The soft place must
be in his head.-London Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Few are the men who realize for
what they are fitting themselves in
this life. The iron workers, who de-
voted considerable attention to a pro-
nniscuous distribution of dynamite,
will arrive at the federal penitentiary
in Leavenworth just in time to assist
in the erection of a new wing for the
prison. for which there is pressing
demand for experts in the structural
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
MEXICO NOT WANTED.

DR.. Albert Bushnell Hart. professor,
of the science of government at Har-i
ward university. astonished the mem
bers of the Geet Together club recently
by declaring that in it's diplomatic as
pect the nearly completed Panama
canal will stimulate a desire for the
annexation of Mexico to the United
States, which. he said. had been latent
since the war with Mexico He be-
feved that it is clear that the canal
Will not bind the American nations to-
gether in friendship, but probably viii
increase the points OF friction. and
that the canal must certainly increase
the volume of the Asiatic trade. but
also that it will correspondingIy di-
minish, if it does not extinguish. the
export and import trade from the At
lantic coast to the interior via Pacific
ports. On the subject of annexation ne
says: The canal brings us alarming
~ near the question of Mexico. The
American investment OF capital in
Mexico is greater than in all the rest
of Latin America. Hence the canal
will stimulate a spirit of annexation
which has never died out since the
Mexican war" This professor is stir
ring up the worst sort of trouble. We
do not want Mexico, but only to keep
her in peace and order.-New Orleans
Picayunne.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

w. Bourke Cochran is evidently not
of the opinion that his Democratic
brethern will be able to accomplish
much in the way of bringing about
real tariff reform. He gave out an
Interview in London the other day in
which he said that while the Demo
Gratis will, make changes in the tariff
rates the trusts will still dominate,
and prices will keep on going up.
Somebody will be making a motion
soon to read Bourke out of the Demo
cratic party.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
DAFFYDuS
BY q. NoALL.

If mother bottles catsup what does
pop-bottle?
Here's the original conservationist.
He's the boob that put the ore in Ore
gon-0
If a sea captain loved his brig would
he call the brigadier?
CAS- Oat Abar says: Some male hair
dressers dye old maids.)
Can an Eskimo grass2
Gilt him again. He's only q Turk-)
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,


IF'rom the New York Press.1
Santa Claus seems to hate poor rela-
tions as much as millionaires do.
Anyhow a woman has a good enough
business head to manage good business
men.
Girls have such irnaginations they can
think they have a religious feeling when
it's their liver.
Nothing puts the devil in a better hu-
NOR than for two men to make a buSi-
ness agreement on their honor.
If a man knows how to build suspen-
sion bridge, what he is more likely to be
proud of is his whiskers.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Sam Gompers is out with an inter-
view declaring that the international
Association of Structural Bridge and
Iron Workers is sorely needed by the
men in that trade. He promises to do
everything in his power to stand by
the men in this union and strengthen
their organization. And if he has any
authority in the premises he should
see to it that the new officials of the
union are not men who have criminal
feudencieS.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Cheer up girls. DR.. Muller, a ia
nous London physical culturist, de-
clares emphatically that every woman
can develop into replica of the Venus
de Milo as far as physical attributes
are concerned. But what the nations
of the earth need are fewer Venuses
and more good cooks.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Mrs o. H. P. Belmont seems to be
wasting some of her valuable time and
misdirecting her strenuous energies in
organizing a class of women for the
purpose of teaching them to talk, so
that they can hold their own as stump
speakers for the cause of woman's
suffrage The speechmaking faculty
ia born in women with the same de-
gree of certainty as the ability to
swim is conferred on ducks.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
FROM OTHER PENS
THE NoIsELEss MoToRcycI.F,

The NOISELESS MOTORCYCLE.
There are a good many noises in
this country, including those made by
the automobile horns, the phonoeraphs
the moving picture vOcalistS, Elbert
Hubbard, the locomotive whistles and
the garbage wagon covers In fact
foreigners have been wont to call IL
"a nation of noises" One article that
has contributed no mean portion to
this reputation Is the device known
as the motorcycle. A motorcycle for
its size, can outnoise any other inven-
ton of the last 1000 years. with the
possible exception of the circus caIIi-
ope. The average motorcycle when ii
is fairly under way with young man
on the front seat and a young lady
gracefully draped about his manly
form. makes a noise which resembles
cross between a series of boiler ex-
ptosfons and the battle of GETTYSBURG.
Now man has arrived who has in
vented a noiseless motorcycle. but IL
may not be such valuable invention
after all, and perhaps it would be Just
as well to have the motorcycles make
as much noise as possible When one
OF them dashes along a street at a
rate of something less than so miles
an hour pedestrians now have q chance
to get inside of a building and down
IN the basement before the thing
passes. But should the motorcycle be
made noiseless the pedestrian would
not have much of a chance to get
away with whole skin. 1t would be
a zip, a honk. a bump and a hurry
up trip to the emergency ward. There
fore. let the motorcycles make all the
noise they want to. 1t gives the foot
passengers good 40 per cent chance
to get under cover.-Grand Rapids
Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Mere condolences are always hap
pening And one of them is that several
of the prominent men. who are out
spoken that contest for the guberna-
torial chair should be brought in be-
half of Arthur Capper, hold state Of
fees of the appointive variety.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
KANSAS cOMNENT
FOREHANDEDNEss.


To accuse somebody of intending to
do a certain thing is a very good
preparation for the charge, when the
thing comes to pass. that the previously
accused somebody did it. Roosevelt
worked that scheme ito a frazzle'' to
prepare the public mind for his charge
that the nomination had been stolen
for President 7 1T. And now Presi-
dent-elect Wilson seems to be casting
the same sort of an anchor to leeward
in the threat he delivers against the
interests" that snail dare to precipt-
tate panic during his administration.
1t looks very much as If he expected
the panic to come and was preparing
the public mind in advance to accept
some other explanation of it than
Democratic administration or legisla-
tion.-Iola Register.
OLD AGE.
Young people frequently look upon
aged people with pity, and think of
them as deprived of most things that
old people cling to life as earnestly asi
any others, and that, too. not merely
as shining from that which lies beyond
death. but for the mere pleasure of liv-
ing. They are cut off, to be sure, from
some sources of pleasure which they
have had, but others are open to them. /
The ambition.is less keen and the cares
of life bring less anxiety than they |,
once did. There is even a certain sat
isfaction in receiving that respect for
age which is paid to them by younger
people, in accordance with an impulse
that is as universal as 1t is noble. To
youth, hope makes the future bright
brighter often than events will make
it; to the old, memory makes the whole
past, stripped Of it's gioomier picture
and filled with pleasant pictures a
part of the unchanging present.-win-
field Courier.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

william Rockefeller is not in the
criminal class, not yet at any rate.
But the methods that are being en-
ployed to serve him with subpoena
issued by a congressional investigating
committee would seem so to indicate
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02
FULL LEASED WERE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal II a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
Telegraph report of that great news Or
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
Duhlicaticn in Topeka
The news Is received In The State jour
aa3 building over wires tor this sole puf.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

DIR. Eliot says that baseball among
the Chinese is an influence for good.
Certainly an umpire who cannot be
persuaded to do the right thing by an
eruption of Chinese from the bleachers
81 Ehavnnd all hope. -
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Turkey is soon to receive an ultima
tum from the peace .,lenipotentiaries
representing the Balkan states And
If Turkey refuses to accept it, the Balv
kan allies will probably follow it up
with another vigorous kick in the ribs
that will be sure to make Turkey sit
up and take a little more notice of
the inevitableness of its struggle.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

AS the stage directions would put it,
business of cheering IS an 5soraef1 Tor
the husbands. A feminine waist mas
been invented which fastens together
in the back with only two hooks.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

manly job. well paid and altogether
comfortable for men who are not too
fond of having their own way or too
much exercised over. great problems
of state.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

London police raided a gambling
house and picked up $4,000 on the
tables. Still, the New York system
probably would be more profitable
for. fhor11
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Truth must certainly be much
stranger than fiction to Kansans,
masking in the merry sunshine of these
davs. when they read of snow that IS
IA feet deep in other sections OF the
fryv
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

This is also the season of the year
when many new baseball leagues are
organized. But most of them are of
the paper variety.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

why did the elopement fall through %
I'VE had signal arranged. She told me
to come to her window and make a noise
like a robin. 1 did So" Yes" "Then
her father popped out and made noise
like shotgun. Herald
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Fifty-cent gas will be popular with
the coal men, at any rate. only the
exceedingly rich will be able to use II
at that price for heating purposes NOT
are there many of them in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Perhaps it might be well to call at
tention again to the fact that if you
have a snake to send to a friend you
can't ship it via the parcels post
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

1t is remarkably easy to answer;
what you thought was a company of
militia at blank cartridge practice,
was simply series of New Year reso-
lutions exploding.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-02

Before endorsing Mr.. Hodges ap-
pointment of Clerin Zumwalt as chap
lain of the penitentiary, we impatient
ly await the endorsement of Hon.
Turk Burke, of Atchison.
The Washington times., 1913-05-10
SCOTT TOO STRONG
FOR THE GRIFFMEN
Joe Enge and Mel Gaa Unable to Stop Frqid Onsauqt of
Chicago Batters in Third Game at
White Sox Park.
By SENATOR"

CHICAGO. May 1o-"Death Valley
Jim Scott proved quite too for
midable for the Climbers yesterday,
geaied baseball. the ripping. snortins
! north wind OF Lake Michigan
sending the thermometer way down In
the tube until even Nick Altrock
couldn't find II. Say. 1t was cruelty
to fandom that's all. to stage a com.
bat under such conditions.
NV Poy Chae" Ergel, strengthened
|, b. a lunch of apple pie and coffee ir
beanery on Clark street. thanks e
cne OF those quiet little games. essayed
to hurl. The caloric strength of the
apple pie lasted just four innings, taen
Joseph vanished from that wind-swepl
prairie Next time out he will eat al
least two pieces of pie and aid one
more loaf of sugar to his coffee. While
the pie was working Engel performed
Well enough, a lucky triple oy Jacques
Fournier. propelling two runners over
the plate and putting the Sox ahead.
steady and particularly savage gdst of
wind blew him from the hill in the
seventh. Some hitting behind him might
have given him chance, but the
Griffmen just couldn't hit.
Umpire Hildebrand. one Of Ban John
in trouble frequenil ybecause Of hic
ochre decisions. but when he failed
utterly to see Ainsmith blocking
Weaver at the plate and allowed the
rur he was Immediately surrounded by
gesticulatins Grinmen. George Nc.
he was banished from the battle to
show that unpires are sacred folk.
Thereafter Morgan became short-
stop and Herman Schaeter coveral sec
ond in royal fashion. AS urrpires go.
Hildetrand resembles Hart in his poor
work and Silk O'Loushlin IN his desire
to rule. In other words. some on"
should have Siovalled him just for fun.
Only in the second session did the
Climbers look at all formidable. La,
went all the way around when Nor
gan bumped a double over Schailer
head. Mcbride walked ana stole, put
Engel waved thrice like regular
pitcher. That one run was all INC
Climbers could get. too. Scott pitching
GOOD hail during the rest Of the game.
In the seventh Morgan ana Schasler
v,r. ON, but Chick Gandil, nmplnG
like an old man, breezed for the third
out and Scott had emerged from
small crevice. Milan and AinSmltn
wer. on in the eighth, but Williams
and I.aporte could do nothing.
With s1e gone in the third Schal;er
drew a pass and Rath scratched a MT
mast I.aporte. Lord popped to Wilnams;
and then came the heroic swat 81
Iacoues Fournier. The Frenchman
whaied one up into the wind and away
il sailed toward the right-held corner.
N;,.cIler made a desperate attempt 70
cauture IL. failing only by inches, anu
two runs were over and the siusguls
s%s, sacker on third. He got no far'
ther. though. for Collins rolled to NC
Eide. :, ,,. eft,
The Washington times., 1913-05-10
BALL PLAYERS SAY
GOLFERS WILL FAIL
McGraW's Men Will Let Anna
teurs Try to Drive Over
Center Field Fence.

NEW YORK. May 1o.-Can a golf
player tee Up a golf ball on the home
plate of the polo grounds and drive II
over the topmost center field fence into
Eighth avenue. at the same time keep
ing it between the right and left field
flag poles?
This Is a problem which has raised
an argument between members Of the
New York National team and several
golfers and a question which will be
settled some day this week after the
Giants return tomorrow. The proposition
really resolves ieself into this: Can a
golfer beat a home run hitter?
From the home plate TO the center
field fence 10 about 16S yards. The top
of the fence, which surmounts the
bleachers in that territory. is between
fifty and sixty feet high. The flag
poles are about 80 feet apart.
Golf players say the feat suggested
should be easy. Ball players, who can
not even drive a pitched ball into the
lower part of the center field stand.
say II Is impossible.
Several fans, who are also golf en-
thusiasts, have taken up one side of
the argument: on the other side are
John ]. McGraw and several Giants.
An amateur golfer will attempt the
long high drive this week, He is to
have five tries.
The Washington times., 1913-05-10
MOSES OF BASEBALL
TAKES LONG CHANCE
st. Louis Minister Prophesies
First Division for Browns
and Cardinals.

ST. LOUIS. Mo. May 10.-The Browns
shall slay the Tigers of Detroit and
put the Red Sox Of Boston and the
White SoN of Chicago in the wash
and hang them out TO dry. And the
Browns shall go into the first diVi-
sion. Tine Cardinals shall rout the
Corssirs OF Pittsburgh and trip up
the Giants of New York And the
Cardinals shall also stay in the first
division.
These prophecies come from the Rev.
samuel II. Woodrow, formerly or
Washington. That they shall be fui-
nlied 10 the letter no member of lii-
grim Congregational Church VIII"
doubt
III, like Moses. doubting momentar-
ny mat h" could draw water from
rock, any should be inclined to doubt
that baseball championships could be
ura"h To ST. Louis, let them look 10
lne record of DR.. Woodrow, who ar
rived IN 81. Louis three days ago ana
lniIhedlately Set about his work ol
administering the affairs OF pilgrim
Church and clearing the way for pen
dinals
DR.. Woodrow. in installing himself
as mascot for the ST Louis clubs
points 10 his record Of last wear.