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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
CLOSE SIGHTS
By THE kTCHIsoN GLOBE.

Every fad is foolish but the one you
practice.
There are not only exceptions to all
rules; there are violations.
You probably don't understand some
th1ngs because they are none of your
business.
Four-fifths of the people imagine things,
and that is why so many lies are told
About the biggest circus is watching a
drunk man try to keep his hands in his
pocket.
Unless you can sell your stuff to the
fiction magS, an active imagination
doesn't amount to much
Admitting that the mule has a strong
voice, to our sensitive system it seems to
need culture.
The average detective looks SO little
like Sherlock Holmes he is something OF a
disappointment.
Every woman occasionally says to her
husband: why don't you do more work
around home? Other men have to-
There are not enough step ladders.
Seems like half of the people spend half
of their time trying to borrow step lad
ders.
There is so much talk it is funny Edison
was inspired to invent the photograph.
What the world needs is a successful
muffler.
Every person has gained something I'M
der false pretenses. Still, in the end is
anything gained? 1t probably is only a
temporary profit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
New School RuncO Men

A metropolitan daily recently published
an editorial article lamentins the passing
of the old-time bunco men. The times
have endured a vast change, more per
ceptible in manners than in morals, an1
in the new, unwritten code of etiquette
there is much that is dep1orable in The
opinion of those who still cherish some Of
old school, is SO seldom encountered IN
these days that wherever one survives he
is made the subject of comment, and it
may be significant that the dominant note
of that comment is invariably one of
wholesome admiration.
The disappearance Of the old-school gen.
tleman has been observed even in the
highways and byways of crime. The
buncO man, the affable, courteous and
peacea ble person who swindIed like
gentleman and robbed like a Chester
field" is no longer prominent in our midst
He has become almost as rare as hens
teeth, and tomorrow he will probably be
as extinct as the dodo In his place has
come the brutal gunman of the gang and
the furtive worker of cheap and tawdry
graft. And our distinguished contempor-
airy enlits a gentle sigh over the vulgar
decadence of one of the very oldest Of the
fine arts.
lied industries formed only a highly civil
lied development of the original art. The
earliest robbers among our primitive an
cestorS worked by an elementary system
and depended wholly upon brute force.
For some thousands of years there was
job or any little matter that involved a
sudden and passionate transfer of per-
and no one thought of such trimmings on
a simple occupation that for long time
was the prevalent industry. But event
ually the superior robbers became so pros
porous that they began to develop the
rudiments of culture, and in time there
was evolved a race of gentlemen, very
barbaric gentlemen, who became the pro-
totypes and progenitors of the ancient
historic and classical gentlemen, the me-
diaevaI gentlemen of the old school and SO
on down to the gentlemen of oxford and
Cambridge, Harvard and Yale. New York.
Boston, Chicago. Newport. Atlantic City
and other uplifting resorts where cui-
turitis is dispensed in liberal and varied
doses to suit all tastes.-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
EXPENSIVE CHEAP LABOR.

A new aspect of the immigration
problem is opened by some remarkable
facts that recent industrial investiga-
lions have brought to light. These in
vestigations, says Arno Bosch, in the
October Worlds Work, seem to prove
two startling propositions:
% That the immigrants who now
come to this country in the largest
numbers are not being assimilated but
are being Jumped in undigested for
industry.
90 That cheap foreign abor' is not
cheap, even to the manufacturers who
have eagerly encouraged the importa-
ton of unskilled foreigners to do the
''muckers' work. This class of East
ern European peasant lacks the intel
ligence and initiative either to avoid
the ordinary dangers of rough labor or
to keep in efficient health; and their
employers have to pay the bills for
teaching them.
OF 40 cases of lead-poisoning found in
the lead mills of New York City last
year by the partial survey of the fac
tory investigating commission, the dis
ease had in 50 cases attacked men of
foreign birth. OF these, % We're immi
grants from. Eastern Europe. Consid
ering the large recent Slavish immigra-
tion this may not at first glance seem
remarkable, but it takes on its real
significance when it is understood that
half the employees of the mills are of
American birth, and have worked in
the lead industries for years Among
them occurred only one-twentieth of
the cases of lead-poisoning. The ex-
PLANTATION for this disparity is signifi-
cant. The Americans know how to
take care of themselves. Most impor-
tant of all, they wash their hands and
faces when they stop work. The i'm
migrants from Eastern Europe do not.
unless some one stands over them and
makes them do it.
AS the dangerous trades in this cOun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
THE STuJED VOICE

Though time-so fleeing, silent and I'M
seen,
Swifter than swallows flight in twilight $
hour,
Through willows in yon church-yard,
weeping, green
Has quelled and streaked youths joyous,
golden flower;
Yet, oft, when ev'ning's dove notes, plain
tive, low,
Fill the woodland, meadowland and the
lea,
And the moon-beams tighten the cricket s
bow,
soft voice whispers.-"Papa, just kiss
me-"
Ye teach us, silent voices of the night
Ihou star, tree, phantom and shadowy
thing,
That through the starry heavens bound
less flight,
A soul may soar, sing, and memory bring,
Scenes of his youth, of time and of the
tide,
Whisperings of love and visions of Thee:
From the realms above and from by nv
side,
The soft voice whispers.-"Papa come to
me-
GEORGE Buckley CONES.
Meade, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
EVENING CHAT
A Great Obligation.
BY RUTH CAMERON

have been thinking today of the
incalculable and far reaching harm
which any person causes by allowing
an undesirable tendency in himself to
All that sounds abstruse, doesn't it
It's really quite simple and belongs
right in your own life
For instance Once upon time
there was a man who was naturally
very nervous. Instead of trying to
overcome this tendency he gave it free
rein, and it grew upon him until II
had possession of his whole being. II
made him irritable and unhappy and
hard to live with, and of course all
his housemates-and not least of ALL
he himself.-lost unreasonable hap
piness through it.
dency had stopped there it would have
been bad enough, but they didn't; they
never do. Being man of some
means he did not have to go to busl-
a good deal of his wife. Now nerves
are contagious, and after fifteen or
twenty years of this constant COM
partnership his wife developed viru-
lent form of nerves, nervous 1ndises-
ton, and after twenty years of in
validism died of it.
IN the meantime the man himself
had died, and the wife went to live
with her married daughter. The
daughter had not inherited the curse
to any great degree, but constant care
of her mother so wore upon her that
she, herself became nervous and I'M
happy, lost her poiSe, lost her pretti-
ness and charm and finally lost her
husband.
The other child, a son, had inherit
ed his fathers nervousness in it's fully
developed form. So ill equipped was
he for the fight of life that the wor-
ries of business actually unhinged his
mind and he died in an insane aSy-
lum at an age when he should have
been in the prime of life.
The curse has not yet expended
itself by any means, but 1 cannot tell
the rest of the story because it has not
yet been lived.
There are children in both families.
Their lives have been partially blight
ed by its effects, and besides that they
have it in their own blood to fight.
We are not responsible to ourselves
alone for our faults. We are RESPONSE
BILE to all those whose lives we touch,
and to those who are to inherit what
ever character we forge.
The unchecked weakness of any
sort-be it nerves, sensuality, quick
temper, or any of the innumerab BILE
faults flesh is heir to-will not only
take possession of our own lives, but
will blight God alone knows how many
more.
All faults can be fought. And if not
entirely conquered, at least so sub
dued that they will not dominate eth
er our own lives or the strain we pass
on to others.
So to fight the good fight that we
make that strain as clean as possible
is a great and solemn obligation for
every man and woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP,
MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION


OF The Topeka State Journal, published
daily except Sunday at Topeka Kansas
required by the Act of August "a, 1872
Note.-This statement is to be made in
duplicate, both copies to be delivered by
the publisher to the postmaster, who will
send one copy to the Third Assistant
Postmaster General division of Classifi-
cation), Washington D. c.. and retain the
other in the files of the post office.
Editor, Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka,
Kansas.
Managing Editor, C. A. Cain, Topeka,
Kansas.
Business Manager, Frank P. MacLen-
man, Topeka, Kansas.
Publisher, Frank +. MacLennan' To-
peka, Kansas
Owners: Of a corporation, give names
and addresses of stockholders holding l
per cent or more of total amount OF
stock.)
Frank P. MacLennan, (sole owner, To-
pelka, Kansas. a
Known bondholders, mortgages, ana
other security holders, holding per cent
or more of total amount of bonds, mort
cages or other securities:
None.
Average number of copies of each issue
of this publication sold or distributed
through the mails or otherwise, TO PaIo
subscribers during the six months preced-
ing the date of this statement, 1873
FRANK P. Mac LEHMAN
Editor and Owner
Sworn to and subscribed before me tnls
Ist day of October, 1913
fSeai1 ALBERT A. MILLER.
Notary Public.
CMy commission expires December l.
1851
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News
If woman isn't particular she is pc
culiar.
It's easier to hear of ghosts than it is to
see them.
The umbrella has its ups and downs.
but it never kicks.
Some women worry about worries they
might have had but didn't.
The successful man never tells you what
he is going to do next.
If it is the right kind of home a boy
will never run away from it.
The father of twins knows whether two
can live as cheap1y as one.
One pretty girl will inspire more fen1i-
nine envy than dozen clever ones.
The young man who shows up with an
engagement ring is apt to get the glad
hand.
A woman may not even want to know
her own mind until after she has changed
it four five times.
After a man has loafed around awhile
waiting for his ship to come in he is will
ing to compromise on schooner.
How happy the average married man
would be if he were only half we'll sat
isfied with mis- wife he is with himself
1t isn't necessary, for young man to
take careful aim when kissing a girl. She
is usually the job and shifts the target
SO he can't miss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
In the HinlaJayaS,

have just finished a journey which
must ever be memorable to me. For
of many appealing parts of the world
few held such a lure for me as the
Himalayas. which lair in their re-
cesses of snow and forest some of the
fierceSt of earth'S creatures. Their
naked peaks glitter a hundred miles
away, and their unfath ENABLE ravines
and forests even the Indian sun leaves
damp and cold. The trees are sub
lime in their profusion and in their
beardings of MOSES and creeper
drapery, and they throw out wildly
contorted arms across immense CULTS in
which the eagles swim. Amid it all
the narrow paths go twining, now
clinging to some precipitous ledge,
caving deeply into a hillside, then
coming out suddenly upon corner
that dominates depth of immense
profundity in which the very air
seems to assume a tint of blue. At
these corners cold winds come rushing
by, edging along the cliffs and salute
one with the tang of the far-off snow
Elsewhere. where the track winds into
the re-entrant of a ravine, the air is
still, the sun is hot, and from the
depths below creeps up, as through
the mouth of some a1chemist's funnel.
the subtle odor of the pines. You
may see hut far down, with it's row
of terraces of cultivated land cut out
of the steep above it, and a COW or
buffalo grazing there. while semi
naked urchin Tolls beside it,
The forest is full of citizens, fur
tive. busy, and watchful. GU know
not what strange, wild creature sinks
from your path as it hears your foot
fall. nor if there be not panther
watching you with stealthy eyes from
the shadow of an overhanging rock.
AS have been walking I have twice
started khakur (barking deer) in the
thicket beside me. and seen them leap
forth and away like arrows, with
noise of crashing boughs. The mag
nifcent hill pheasants. pecking on the
track among the droppings of the pack
ponies. slide like shadows into the
underbrush as you draw near. To
stranger this is all romance. but to the
poor peasant it is sadly workaday. 1t
is not only by the sweat of his brow
that he must eat bread. but at the
peril of his life. No place is so dew
astated by wild animals. They take
their toll Of his flocks and herds-aye-
and of his family In the veranda of
the dark bungalow where 1 am stay
ing is a printed notice of government
offering 500 rupees for the destruc-
ton of man eating tiger that is in
Testing this region. Leopards are ex-
tremely bold, and seem to have no
fear of man. though they seldom at
tack him. One. however, was de-
stroyed this year. the famous Almora
leopard, which within five years had
taken 800 human lives--Arthur w.
Hewlett, in the Manchester Guardian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The counterfeiter makes money dishon-
estly; but there are others.
Every cloud has a silver lining, but I'M
fortunately every pocket hasn't
The doctor seldom tells a chronic kicker
that he needs more exercise.
Even the washerwoman feels that she
has to draw the line somewhere.
The school of eXperince has COM
mencements. It's perpetual course
One peach doesn't make summer girl,
but one apple once made a fall.
Put some pepper in your work. and no
one can say you are not worth your salt.
A hypochondriac is person who is suf-
fering from enlargement of the magma
ton.
There isn't much hope for the people
who would rather tell their troubles than
be popular.
Many man who is most lavish with
his talk has to take it back, slightly dam
aged.
Blobbs-"He's a quick-witted fellow.
Slobs-'In what way?" Blobbs-rRe
knows when to say nothing.
DO you keep a diary?" asked the mere
man. Hundreds of them, sir; hundreds
of them" replied the stationer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
HVEOR or THE DAY

We'll. Henry" said the fair maid, did
pepper ask you if you could support me
in the style to which L am accustomed 7''
mo, dear said Henry. HE merely in
formed me that he couldn't, and gave me
his blessing. Judge.
He-"Don't you remember me? rescued
you from drowning at Narragansett last
year She tsweetly)-'How stupid of
me- But, of course, one cannot remember
all the young men who rescue one''-Ijfe
You used to say competition is the life
OF trade. = $50 it is" replied Mr. (,1In,
rox, only instead of competing to sell
Things the idea now is to corner zen, mn
and get people competing for a chance 10
buy. ashington Star.
Come, come, don't be too anpr,, a.
your son. You ought 20 make Allowances
for the extravaganza OF youth" s.Yes
but not cash allowances. '-Baltimors
American.
Young Lady Cooking at roomsl-sT,ba
sun doesn't come in here at all 'I.andlad,y
NO; that is why 1 charge so much for
this room: You can sit by the WfndoU,
without danger of getting freckled -
Boston Transcript
Have you heard your wife lecture7,, ..r
should say So" replied Mr.. Meelxton ..I
want to say that I've heard Henrietta d.
a whole lot of lecturin' that the nub1to
never got chance to listen to."-Wash
ington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
Two InfinitjeS?

Can there be two kinds of infini-
ties; or two infinite spaces? The
nearest star is distant 25,0OO,O0O, OOO,-
600 miles. Go write row of units
1111111... to the star and let each unit
represented by a line of Is, 25,OOO,-
O0,000,000 miles lcng, submerges all
human powers of imagination But
write a row of 222222.. 25,00O,OOO-
100000 miles long, then the number
OF miles represented would be twice
as great. Then write a row of 999999
equally as long, and the distance eX-
pressed would be nine times as great
as that represented by the Is. But no
pressed by the Is. Let the first row
of figures extend 25,OOO,OO0, 900. 900 or
$4,000, 00O,0O0,000 or 1,OO0,O0O,0O0,-
600, 600 miles to the east; then a row
could be extended toward the west
Many millions of years would be re-
quired to write the long rows. Sup
pose YOU write IS both ways during
1000, 100000 years each. Then the
distance in miles would be thinner
than a spiders thread compared to
an infinite distance. There are pos
sibly SO persons now living able to
think one new thought; they are the
mighty of the earth: and are all
transcendant mathematician. Not one
of these even tries to begin to think
of infinity or eternity. They all know
better. Only the superficial strive to
think OF the two words L can not
even hope to secure a glimpse, last
ing a thousandth part of one second
of the meaning of the following list
of words: Mind, space. time, dura-
ton, infinity, eternity, beginning, end,
space and electrons.-New York
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
NOTICE.

The state Journal, in accordance
with the law enacted by congress-
filed with the postmaster, "Wednesday
oct. /, a statement of ownership ana
circulation The law also requires
publication of this statement in the
second issue following the fling.
This publication is made herewith
above.
In the matter of circulation the at
torney general of the United States
has ruled that daily sales must not DE
included, as casual purchasers are
not regarded under the law as paid
subscribers The State Journal is
thus obliged to eliminate consider
able part of it's paid circulation as
we'll as all it's copies to advert1s-
:ng agents exchange newspapers, cor
respondents, employees, etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An old joke seldom is improved by
a new dress.
+ J.
What has become of the oId-fash-
toned man who used hair-oil?
= \ =
Many a laugh is generously given
to stories that have been heard be-
fore.
+ j. +
If men could cash their hopes the
banks wouldn't have enough money to
go around.
= + l.
Wouldn't it be a real calamity for
many if fashion decreed that charity
cloak should be diaphanous?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

try are rapidly falling into the hands
of immigrants of this type, it is easy
to see why Industrial poisoning, and in
dustrial disease in general, presents a
pressing national problem. The VIC
tins are chiefly among the most ignor-
ant and helpless people. The danger is
there for the others, but they usually
have sufficient initiativ to escape it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

have the films and the girl-if he can get
her.
A scant month later two honeymoon
couples returned to New York.
Nora was walking the deck for the mo-
ment with Jack.
THE developments were far more in
tereSting than we expected, were they not,
brother miner" she asked.
There were two Cupids lurking in that
camera of yourS-Sure enOugh.'-(COpy-
right. 1913. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndica TED
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

Forecasting true to their form, the
local weather experts predicted with
emphasis and certainty that the fine
weather of Tuesday would be followed
by a gloomy, cloudy Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report oe that great news d.
SANITATION for the exclusive AFTERNOON
Rubltcation in Topeka.
The news is received IN The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pu1-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

Special Envoy Lind is still holding
the fort at Vera Cruz" 1t is notice.
able also that he is within easy run
ming distance of the steamboat docks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

Being special envoy to Mexico in
wolves great hardship Probably the
only way John Lind can put in his
time is to visit all the picture shows
in Vera Cruz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

What's this? Mayor Cofran appoints
a chief of police without consulting
the womens Advisory Board? 1t seems
imnoSsihle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

And the few who cordially dislike
Colonel Roosevelt are certain to be Ie-
GREETING that he is to be buried" in
South America only for three months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

Surely the English suffra gettes have
finally proven that they are entitled to
the ballot. They have taken to burn
ing schOolhOuSes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

In seeing his case go to trial on its
merits, Governor Sulzer has the salts
faction of knowing he did all he could
to prevent it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

Uncle Sam is planning to increase
the beef supply by having the Indians
raise corn. But they'd much prefer to
mingle with old John Barleycorn and
raise cain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

Rich material for the punsters an
the jokesmiths. A Shawnee county coy
kicked a farmer in the calf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

What about the directors of the New
Haven railroad who ran by the finan
cial danger signals?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02

Higher education strives valiantly
and with more or less success to keep
ND to date Many of the students at
the State university have decided to
take q course in tango dancing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
FROM OTHER PENS
FIND OUT ABOUT THEM


The administration will cause to be
investigated the report that there is
slavery in the Philippines. This is
good intention, and if the investigation
has any degree of thoroughness, will
produce valuable results. The question
whether or not there is slavery in the
islands is not in itself so essential. In
stances of slavery may possibly be
found, but would not necessarily prove
what some of the Democrats would
like to prove, probably, that the Re
publican governors of the islands are
to blame for it. But slavery or other
conditions may be found, probably will
be found, tending to show very clearly
that the people of the Philippines are
even self government, may safely be
heve that the fundamental trouble
the Philippines is due to lack of knowl-
edge. Nobody here knows any too
much about the Philippines. BY all
means find out about them. They are
valuable and they are interesting, but
they also are disappointingly uncivil-
lied in spots. Those who have pene-
trated them testify, but some of those
here will not believe them, that the
people are the riskiest ones in the world
TO be trusted with their own govern
ment- More knowledge on this sub
Ject, such as President Wilson and
Governor Harrison are pretty sure to
get from an investigation, may be of
great value in the possession of fair
minded men.-New Haven Register