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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
ON THE SPUR
or THE AOMENT
By ROY x. MoULTON.

Pay.
When you use up all the assets in the
bank account of life
You've got to pay.
When you use up all your energies In
keeping up the strife,
You've got to pay.
When you burn the candle at both ends
and bat around at night,
When you gaily tread the primrose path
and follow beauties bright,
When you go the limit, son. no matter
where you fly your kite,
You've got to pay.
For the law of compensation never has
been beaten yet,
You've got to pay.
And for every fleeing joy or hollow pleas
ure that you get,
You've got to pay.
Old Destiny is accurate though roisterers
may scott;
She is a great collector from the gay and
sportive toff,
When your account is due, my son, you
cannot stand her off,
You've got to pay.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

An impressive looking woman is gem
orally Of the hen-pecking variety
-
Isn't it about time for some Longha1r
to invent a brand-new religion.
j = =
Many a woman's idea of beautiful
household scenery is a yellow canary.
4 r -
"a penny saved is a penny earned.
And a penny spent is usually a dollar
gone.
+ p j.
At certain age, nearly every girl is
mortified because her father insists on
wearing comfortable, squeaky shoes
even when her beau calls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

that day; I'd never thought of it be-
fore. did it because it offered the
swiftest means of getting to know you.
Will you marry me, Helen?'
But your father. Mr.. Deering-
what will he say?"
Larry strobe to her and caught her
in his arms.
Father knows, dear. He says if !
allow you to escape he'll marry you
himself. He's a widower, you know
81 haven't the slightest wish to
escape,- Larry" she murmured, her
steady gaze at last faltering beneath
his.
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
.IYHAWKER .JOTS

kissing may be unsanitary," declared
Bill Sinca1ler in the presence OF the
Vinland Vine man the other day, but
when 1 was young, people did not kiss
for their health
A good shower on a hot morning, as
the Atchison Champion says, brings
more encouragement to a struggling
soul than a check from an habitudl
delinquent debtor.
Related by the Summer Session Kan
san: She-We weren't in the hall two
minutes before he kissed me. Friend
Yum. Was it an event? She-My dear,
he's an efficiency expert.
It's amusing, thinks the Bucklin
Banner, to note some of the country
editors worrying about the kind of
clothes worn by the women, when they
can't muster up enough coin to buy
their wife new dress every five
years.
Here's good story, as told by the
Manhattan Nationalist: Two pretty hit
tie girls and a freckled face, snub nosed
Irish boy were playing together when
the conversation turned upon thankful
ness. One little girl said: II am thank
full that the Lord gave me my pretty
yellow curIs.'' The other one said: 81
am thankful because He gave me my
pretty blue eyes and pink cheeks The
little boy studied for a few minutes
and said: well, 1 amt thankful for
my looks at all-the Lord darn near
ruined me-
I often wonder how things will be
around here in a hundred years from
now, muses. Bert Walker in his Osborne
County Farmer. I suppose the same
number of chrmps will be on hand to
go to the barber shop to get their hair
cut on Saturday night. Dogs will lie
around asleep all day and then begin
to howl about the time you get to bed.
Trains will be just as late when you
want to go away and the letter that
you look will never come. The man
who knows it all will be on hand to
til you when you are krong. and the
lady with the crying baby will have a
seat just in front of you at the Audi
forum. When you want to go out
walking some pleasant evening with a
young lady you will find that some
other fellow has beaten you to it, and
when you want to take her in and get
q dish of ice cream she will be tagged
by three or four girl friends who re-
fuse to break away. Things will be so
much the same that I don't believe I
care to come back. It might be a
pleasant pastfm to look over the bat
Elements and watch the fellows who
succeed you here on earth wading
through their troubles, but that is
about all. When I look back over the
trials and fluctuations there are on a
journey through this vale Of tears I
come to the conclusion that once is
enough for me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
This. That and the Other.

A two-wheeled automobile would do
away with exactly half of the trouble.
A famous man looks just like u common
ordinary ultimate consumer when he
hasn't got his collar on and needs a shave.
ing her hair and then put on a hat that
covers it all up.
The trouble in this country is that there
are too many old maids writing the "Ad-
vice to Mothers - columns.
When Alex. Schram was chief of police
of Cheyboygan some years ago there hap
pened to be murder in Detroit The De-
troit police suspected that the murderer
had gone north with a railroad gang that
was working near Cheyboygan and sup
piled the Cheyboygan chief with six
photographs of the murderer taken N
different poses. A few days later they
telegraphed Schram to find out If he had
made any Roadway toward capturing the
man. Schram wired back as follows: 81
have arrested five of the murderers and
expect to land the sixth tomorrow"
The season is drawing near when every
man is called upon to spend more than
he can afford to spend for wedding pres
ents. Each year we are flooded with in
quiTies to suitable wedding presents
and this season We intend to forestall all
such inquiries by publishing in advance a
list of suitable wedding presents that
should hit each and every case This list
gets away from the old stereotyped pres
ent such as the gold rnantel clock or the
cut glass pickle boat and offers something
original and unique. 1t will be noted that
the following gifts are all useful as well
as ornamental and those who follow
hint by selecting any one of them will
make no mistake:
One dozen mustard plasters.
Cork leg.
Wheel chair.
One bushel false hair.
War Trumpet.
Pair of crutches-
One ash sitter
One barrel of lawn fertilizer
One lawn mower.
One hundred feet Of garden hose.
Electric bell
Pullmotor.
One good rat trap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
SAYS UNCLE CIV

This is the season of razzled nerves,
heat WEAKNESS and summer blues. l.
Is the time of year when the indigo
devils get in their 1oathsome work by
reason of too much sunshine and too
little common sense upon the part of
the victim. Workers droop at their
tasks, loungers curse the all too active
memory, and the man who is genial
nine mo this in the year comes down
to breakfast some fine morning with
the symptoms of his three months
crouch covering the countenance that
once had been graced by an all-embrac-
ing smile.
Sure, we all know what the excuse
is Hot weather and old general hu-
midity carry the burden of a multi
tude of sins. The fact is, however,
that the real fault lies a good deal
nearer home.
Diet is sometimes closely related to
devilment The man who insists upon
devouring sirloin when he should be
subsisting upon string beans and bacon
is largely to blame for his own
crouch. The have another" habit is
an insidious spreader Of summer woes
and a July morning head is worse than
the original tank of a wine-bibber can
dream of in January.
We forget that when we stoke up
the human engine in the winter, we
have to make heat as well as muscu-
lar energy. From force of a malign
habit we keep on stocking through
June, July and August and relieve our
feelings by swapping at our wives and
reviling the weather man.
A little less worry and more hard,
absorbing work is a good hot weather
program. If there is one thing that
is worse than watching the clock it is
the practice of watching the mercury
The watched pot may never boil, but
the watched mercury always does.
There Is but one thing that the blue
devils of melancholy can't stand and
that is a task that demands all that
there is in you. Melancholy either
means depleted forces or a waste OF
energy-quite as often one as the 9TH
er. The surest cure is work.
Don't let your nerves get their bluff
in. Ordinarily, rebellious nerves are
like abused and spoiled children. Let
them get the upper hand and they
become incorrigible.
Control them and they give you no
trouble. The man who listens to the
tagging of q frayed nerve end is not
a good Deighbor in midsummer. Also,
he's mighty poor company for him
self. The fellow who takes a grip on
his rebellious ganglia is good to meet
up with any time. He has learned
that a short. sharp struggle with the
insurgent member ends the trouble
and that it is quite as easy to smile
in July as in October if ones system
is attuned to the season.
Don't let the summer blues get
you.
Remember the relation between diet,
devilment and damnation.
Cut the gin milf off the route and
look askance at the flesh pots. Vege-
tables and the simple life for yours.
Keep your nerves in subsection and
look not upon the mercury when it
moveth itself Alright Keep cool and
keep sane.-(Copyright, 1913, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

AT SEA.
Across the unmeasured stretches Of the
deep
The gray g1lls whirI and dip;
The wild sea-horses toss their snow-white
names;
Altar steams On a ship.
There is a strange, vast dome of sky
above,
A trackless waste below
A solemn, weird infinity of space
Through which the vessels go.
The world we know has drifted out of
sight;
The dear, familiar shore
The towns, the fields, the mountains, all
and all
Seem gone forevermore.
Between two worlds, one lost and one
unbound,
We sail by night and day.
o Sea, be mercifuii o Ship, be strong!
o God, make safe our way,
Emma Lente.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

With lemons at 90 cents a dozen, ii
should not be taken as an affront
when you are handed one.
And the price of lemons is the price
OF unttring industry on the part OF
the lemon trust, which spent thou
sands and '1obbed' every legislature
as well as the national congress to that
end.
A Chinaman who died at Ellis Is
land claimed to be 149 years of agC,
and that his longevity was due to a
kind of pill he used. Within ten days
a dozen or more Quacks will be adver-
Using that the Chink left them the
only copy of his prescription.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed spoonholder. that sat in the middle
of the table and offered an assortment
of handles, whereby the bashful vis1-
tor might grab a pickle fork, sugar
spoon or butter knife and souse it into
his coffee before he noticed his mis-
take?
In many households, that table fix
ture has been so long forgotten that
when one says "spoonholder,' they
think it means a park bench.
The 1913 legislature passed law that
makes it cheaper to get married since
July l, but didn't pass any law to make
the consequences any cheaper.
Il have bored three new holes in my
belt since this hot weather started,
says Hondo Murphy, land if it keeps
up I will be thin enough to wear 'en
one leg al a time
After a-considerin' of the ways OF
the millyunaire, We diskiver that, al
though honesty may be thuh best
policy the premiums is DANCED high,
an Their amt no endowment feature IN
connection Herewith. deacon Squash
We knew this department would
have a relapse if we didn't stop read.
ing that stuff stuff. Pipe the relapse:
THE GENTLE ARSONETTE.
She fingers not
Till shades of night
To toss a pot
OF dynamite;
Defying laws
OF "cat-and-mouse,'
At times she'll pause
To burn a house.
And as she RACES
Fore and aft
Anent the wages,
Sins and graft,
She kicks and cries
And tears her vest
To emphasize
Her mild request:
"VOTESFORWOME
But even resorting to bunk like the
above filler does not make the para
graft an easy graft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
FROM OTHER PENS
TRAVELLERS TALES.

81 have just returned from a long
trip" said Colonel x, with an air of
having made discoveries. my bust
ness takes me north, SOUTH east and
west, and 1 come in contact with farm
ers and wage-earners, manufacturers
and merchants. Everything seems to
Wages are good. Another bumper
crop is coming. If any serious discon-
tent with the new administration ex-
lists heard nothing of it. Men with
that Mr.. Wilson had started well and
should have a fair chance. They did
not doubt that he would make some
mistakes, but they did not fear the
fails to make mistakes? For my part,
am feeling comfortable and salts
fled. 1 have at no time expected a
miracle, and as things are at present
will get all it needs without a miracle.
If see the president while I'm in
town shall repeat this to him."
81 have just returned from a long
having made discoveries. my bust
ness takes me north, south, east and
west, and 1 come in contact with
farmers and wage-earners, manufac-
seems to be awry Business is slack
Both capital and labor are nervous
Another bumper crop is coming, but
the farmers fear slump in prices for
their products. Men with whom L
talked expressed the opinion that Mr.
Wilson had made a bad start, and
would probably continue in the wrong
direction. For my part, 1 am very APP
prehensive. AS a rule, L am not q
pessimist, but must confess that the
present prospect is anything but pleas
ing to me. shall not call on the
president, because I might be tempted
to describe the real situation to him,
and that would make him uncom-
Portable and me unwelcome. AS for
congress, there is no hope in that di-
rection. The lawmaking body seems
to have been absorbed by the execu-
tive"
Which of the two colonies has the
right of matters? Which is the closer
observer? Which has the better judg-
ment? They have made the same
rounds. They have met the same
classes of people. They stand upon
the same plane as men of action Can
1t be that their views are colored by
their politics? If so, it is superfluous
to add that Colonel x. is a Democrat.
and Colonel z. a Republican, and to
suggest that each man found in hi-
peregrinations confirmation of the
opinions with which he started from
home.-Washington Star.
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CHEAPER MEAT.

One of the prominent packers of the
country made the rather discouraging
observation recently that meat will
never be any cheaper in the United
States: He added that the only effect OF
the proposed tariff revision in the meat
and cattle schedules wo: d be to keep
the meat prices just about where they
are now. Without tariff revision in
this direction, he is sure that there
would be a big jump in meat prices
before long.
And if this feature of the tariff re-
vision works out to that extent it Will
certainly confer a boon on the meat
eaters of the land, and especially those
of moderate means. Any higher
prices for meat would be almost pro-
hibitive to the laboring classes. They
would place meat in the class of lux
uries, where as a matter of fact 1t has
been for some time to many people.
But if meat is never to be cheaper in
this country, the responsibility for
that condition of affairs will have to be
placed on the shoulders of the agri-
culturists of the central west and the
southwest. And the longer they fail
to do their part in increasing the sup
ply of cattle, sheep and hogs, the Dig
ger the bites they will be taking on
their own noses.
IF every farmer would awaken to a
realization Of the fact that he would
be furthering his own interests in
manv substantial ways by having a
herd of cattle on his farm. proportion
ate with it's size, the day of cheaper
moi
a dream. Nor would 1t be so many
years in arriving.
The cutting UP OF the big cattle
ranches in the west and southwest to
meet the demand for more farms mas
been responsible, primarily, for the
failure of the cattle supply TO come
anywhere near keeping apace with the
population. 80 that
source of an adequate cattle supply has
actually been shut off. However, II the
farmers who have broken up these cat
tle ranches. and all other farmers as
we'll. were alive to their own interests,
they could readily step into the breach.
There is no other agency that Will
So cheaply and effectively conserve
and revitalize the soil of a farm as
farms of the great agricultural regions
of the nations are beginning to need
They are becoming worn out through
constant specialization in grains on the
part of their owners A herd of cattle
on every farm, as large as It's size per-
mits. would soon rejuvenate it. TWO
blades of grass, or heads of wheat,
of ears of corn would soon be grow
ing where one does now. Not only
that, but these same cattle could be
sold at nice profits to the farmer. In
other words, a herd of cattle on farm
is of double value to it's owner. And
the problem of winter feeding has been
reduced to a minimum by the silo.
The farmer has everything to gain
and a small chance to lose anything by
raising as large a herd of cattle as his
land can comfortably support. in addi-
ton to his farming in grains and hays.
More than that he can become the
of the toiling masses in the
great cities by opening the door to
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has to when all other resources fall
and the state has placed its bonds with
bankers here.
With Southern Pacific and Consoltda-
ted Gas borrowing on short time at
per cent, 1t Is evident that the money
situation rules all other conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address az the rare
of ten cents a week or thirty cents
"a month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. Nhile
out of town the State Journal Will pc
to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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five years of his reign, about the only
use he will have for his many soldiers
will be to march them up a hill and
march them down again. But his sub
5ects will be taxed even a little heavier
to maintain this military toy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
KANSAS CONTENT
GOOD FOR JOHN DAWSON

GOOD FOR JOHN DAWSON.
John Dawson. Republican, attorney
general of Kansas, believes ice should
be made a public utility so that We
may control it's selling price. John
Dawson is right. and as 1t takes cour-
age to pronulgate SO socialistic a
doctrine. he should be commended both
for his courage and his good sense in
promulgatin his creed. Ice is used by
all the people. The people make the
makes the ice or offers it for sale. Any
commodity of general use, which sells
itself without any particular ability on
the part of the manufacturer, Is a
public utility. This includes light,
power, fuel transportation, water,
communication by wire, or letter. and
some day will include the staple foods.
Ice is a good beginning.
John Dawson's political opinions are
of low order He doesn't believe in
the initiative and referendum and re-
call and primary and commission gov
eminent. But his economic views
such as making ice a public utility. are
genarally sound. In this he is the exact
antithesis of President Wilson, whose
political activities are commendable,
but who holds economic views that
would wreck the country. If John Daw-
son could get Wilson's political creed,
and Wilson could imbibe Johns eco
nomic views-what a grand Progress
it is. we admire them both for the good
they are doing and hope to wa1lop the
daylight out OF them for the evil they
are trying to do.-Emporia Gazette.
A NEW HORROR.
A new dress, called the lamp-shade
dress, is headed this way. It looks
like a horror. Yet so did the dresses
women are wearing now look like hor-
rors five years ago. And the dresses
they wore ten years ago look like hor-
rors now.
Yet all the time women were pretty,
and had no trouble proving it. Wo-
men were attractive and men went
jumping in rivers and shooting them
selves for women even ten years ago
and five years ago and now, and they
will continue to do so five years from
now when the lamp-shade is a mem
Dry.
1t isn't what a woman wears; it's
what she is that drives us crazy. Eve
didn't wear much Of anything and
Adam traded Paradise for her. And
the old Adam today will trade para
disc for her and keep his paradise even
when she wears the next new style of
dress.
Put rings in her nose, strike her
forehead, scar her face, or put her
in the plug hat of the simple child
of the forest, and she still remains
the most wonderful thing our blessed
Lord ever made.-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

There being two sides TO every ques-
ton, it is no more than reasonable to
urge that certain interests would not
have hired men to bride members of
congress in one way or another, if
they had not a well-founded idea that
there were possibly some men in con-
gress who were susceptible to being
frihad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

One more argument against capital
punishment. Some New Jersey men
killed a bunch of cats and then dis
covered it was bullfrogs that were
killing their chickens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

With those who have. a small con-
tribution to the fund that is being col
lected by the Y. NJ. c. A. to establish
a summer camp for poor boys. will
not be missed. And the returns to
these unfortunate lads will be i'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

Mems clothes with voluminous
pockets will soon be the style in Wash
ington. d. c. "A new liquor law has
gone into effect there which prohibits
saloons from selling liquor between
10 o'clock at night and Z o'clock in
the morning, or on Sunday.
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legislature, KanSanS have another thing
9or which to be thankful. Up in Wis
consin, where simon pure reform has
been running riot for a long time.
this years legislature will be unable to
finish its business until late in July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

Vihjalmer Stefansson, the arctic
explorer. insists that the Eskimos'
morals are as good as ours. In some
quarters this will be construed as a
compliment and in others as a slam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

Some of the scientists are free to
admit that all that is known of the
habits of many insects is the fact that
they just walk around. This also ap-
plies to not a few humans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

Fire losses in Kansas were less than
100000 during the month of June.
This is encouraging But there is still
room for improveme nt. Losses by
fire are just that much dead waste,
even if the owner of the property so
destroyed is reimbursed by insurance
companieS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

This is the accepted time for To-
pekans, who make business and pleas
ure trips in the state and elsewhere.
to boost for the great fair that is to
be staged in Topeka this fall.
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Apparently Wall street is not the
get-rich-quick place it once was. Seats
on the New York stock exchange are
now selling for $4,000 each. They
have sold as high as $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03

Statewide rains came in the nick
of time to help the growing corn won
derfully But this has been the rule
and not the exception in Kansas dur
ing the past few years.
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1t may now be said in full truth that
the Mojave desert is a dry spot. All
of the many saloons that were strung
across it, have been forced out of
business