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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

cloaks-that she was wealthy beyond
MS station in life.
When he left her that night he was
sure that he loved her, but as he
watched the last fold of her gown dis
appear within the house and caught
the last breath of fragrance from her,
ne knew that it was useless to think
OF anything so exquisite-so far out
OF his world
And Edith had much the same feel
ing as she took off the gown that was
Barbara'S. Hes too fashionable
he moves in a brilliant set-I-I had
better forget these three perfect even
ings." she sighed.
All three girls were silent and
thoughtful on the way home the next
day, and it was only when they took
up their routine life at the studio
again that they seemed to find one an
other companionable. They often re-
ferred to the hops. but far more often
they thought of them-especialIy
One day she had received a letter
on the stationery of the U. s. S. Ar
Kansas 1t was a note from Lieuten-
ant Smythson saying that he would be
in the New York port for ten days
when he hoped he might have the
pleasure of seeing her.
The first time he came ashore he
found her-found her in the little
studio with the other girls, having
SAC4I ollHPl0 dlIeTnOOn Tea. IN CIVIL
lam clothes he looked even more at
tractive to Edith. and the two other
girls could see that the two were more
than glad to be together again. I'm
der one preteXt and another Barbara
and Julia left them alone at the tiny
tea table.
Miss Dunston. might as we'll con-
fess and ten you ALL the young Off
Ger said after a few minutes.
"Confess?' asked Edith. But what
what have you to confess to me %
He laughed boyishly. II have been
thinking of you ever since l met you
thinking of you as wealthy society
girl who was so far out of my world
as to make you unattainable.'
Edith dropped three Jumps of sugar
in her tea.
Il cannot tell you how happy it
has made me to find you here with
your chums in this charming studio.
II feel as if I might have a chance
-as if what 1 might offer you some
day would not seem too insignificant
Edith
"Oh-'' began Edith.
81 love you-I loved you the third
night, but you were so exquisitely
gowned that 1 knew you must live in
a mad, fashionable world which L
out off,
TIL tell you a secret about those
gowns if you'll promise never, never
to tell the other girls she said.
"I promise he said.
And thereupon Edith told him ev-
erything, even the OLD, old story he
wanted to hear from her.-(Copy-
right, 1913, by the Mcclure Newspa per
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
SWEET Marden in February Nautilus,

SWEET Marden in February Nautilus,
and he continues:
Perhaps no one taught us in our
youth that we cannot acquire one
thing while we are really expecting
something else: that we cannot be-
come prosperous while we are con-
WINGED that we are doomed to poverty
We were not taught that we must go
in the direction in which we face
mentally; in other words, that our
mental attitude, our confidence, our
ideals must correspond without efforts
or they will be futile.
The poor man who works like
slave to get on and yet who is all the
time saying that he does not expect
to succeed, because everything is
against him, that the economical con-
ditions are all against the poor man,
and that others may get on but ne
cannot, is working against the very
thing which he is trying to get, the
very things he desires. Confidence is
the connecting link between the oo1ec-
tive and subjective mind.
Whether we realize if or not, we are
never stronger than our faith, we new
er undertake anything greater than
our self confidence dictates. What
ever the soul is taught to expect that
it will build
There is no uplifting habit like that
of carrying an optimistic, hopeful at
titude, of expecting that our desires
will be matched with realities; that
things are going to turn out well with
us and not i'll; that we are going to
succeed and not fail; that no matter
what may or may not happen, we are
going to be happy.
There is a real creative power in
holding the mind persistently and en-
Enthusiastically upon or towards the
thing we are trying to attain. This
unifies, focuses the faculties upon one
object and makes them a powerful CO.
operative force which is impossible
without an all-absorbing aim which
co-ordinates all of our powers and
makes them look to one end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
ALL IN A COACH AND -FOUR.

The quality folk went riding by,
All in coach and four,
ana pretty Annette, in calico gown
lBr1nglng her marketing things from
town,
Stopped short with her Sunday store,
And wondered If ever it should betide
That she in a long-plumed hat would ride
Away in a coach and four.
A lord there was, oh, a lonely soul,
There in the coach and four;
His years were young but his heart was
And he hated his coaches and hated his
gold
Chose things which we all adore).
And he thought how sweet it would be to
trudge
Along with that fair little country drudge.
And away from his coach and four.
And so next day he went riding back,
All with his coach and four,
And he went each day, whether dry or
wet,
Till he married the sweet little maid
Annette
(In spite of her lack of lore)-
But they didn't trudge off on foot to-
gether,
For he bought her a hat with a long, long
feather,
And they rode in the coach and four.
Now, a thing like this could happen, we
know,
All in a coach and four;
But the fact of it is, 'twixt me and you,
There isn't a word of the story true
pardon 1 do implore).
1t is only a foolish and fanciful song
That came to me as / rode along,
All in a coach and four.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Lippincotts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Hypocrites make it difficult to gauge
public sentiment
Blaming your trouble on hard luck is
no way to get out.
When people are kind to reform it
shouldn't try and hog things
y sober man hasn't much to fear from
the gent who feels that booze is an In
aienable right.
Many people can't tell Oriental rug
from the other kind until it comes to
paying for it.
We have decided that bull makes lets
fuss about a red flag than the Socialist
party does.
Politeness may not cost anything but
walters are not the only ones who can
sell it at a high price.
You were a child once, and know there
isn't much to that old adage about chill
dren telling the truth.
There are times when even a polished
gentleman must find it difficult to e1-
press his emotions without cuss words.
Science is some iconoclast, and teaches
that the busy bee really doesn't Work
much harder than big league ball play
Men are apt to increase their spending
capacity with their earning capacity,
frequently with able assistance from their
wives.
Il can claim few Triumphs, but, after
years of trying, 1 have induced my wife
to prepare beefsteak the way 1 like IT
Destitute HOskins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
HUAOR or THE D<Y

Friend-Is your son still pursuing his
studies at college? Father (regretf,,Iiv9
He must be, for he doesn't seem to he
catching up with any of them-Baltimore
American.
He's one of our most successful finan-
ciers. THAT so? / didn't know he was
rich" HE isn't. But he's supportjns, a
family of five on s12 a eek.d-Detrott
Free Press.
Hell think I'll go and get drink now
She-But darling, you know you swore
on Tor a year He-Yes: but two years
elapse between this act and the nexti9
The Club-Fellow.
Griggs-Lost money in that stool, deal
did you? Say, let me give you a pointer
Briggs-No you don't. No more nointere
for me- What I'm looking for now fS q
retriever.-Boston Transcript.
''She told me that her father is eoin1
to let her go abroad to finish her rniIsicai
education" Well, tx you were her father
wouldn't you rather she would ffniSh ~
abroad than herezs-Houston POST
Binks was gazing into the showcase I'm
front of the dental esta blishnnent xshe a.,
links called him. Hello said Links
What you doing here?" "ob inst
picking my teeth replied Binks.-CiincIne
natl Enquirer.
Say, Emily, are you stiIl as much g,
love with the handsome ridingnaster as
everg Rather L became engaged fo
a friend OF his yesterday in order to get
to know him. "-F1iegende Blaetter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
QUAKER INDICATIONS
rFrom the Philadelphia Record.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The social climber is naturally looking
for a family tree.
Treat man like a dog and he will
naturally growl about it.
If marriage doesn't take the conceit ont
of a man, nothing will.
To say that man drinks like a fish IL
to infer that he sticks to water.
Love and kittens are born blind, but
they soon get their eyes opened.
Getting religion seems to be almost as
much an epidemic as getting measles.
If girl doesn't get used to having her
heart broken by the time she is is ske
never will.
The millennium will never come till that
grim tragedian. the Pessimist, announces
that this is positively his last farewell
appearance.
We are all ruled by precedent SAYS
the Cynical Bachelor, ''in spite of which
all the horrible examples in the worId
won't prevent people from getting mar
RED
Home is what we make it." remarked
the married man. Yes" agreed ire
bachelor, but the trouble is some of YOU
married Fellows never make It till about
a. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Nor would it be at all unusual if
John Bigfoot. of Little Soldier, Jack
son county, wore small shoes.
A Yates Center sage is quoted as
having said: 1T is easy to avoid pay
ing debts, but 1 never knew a man to
get rich at it,
Coming right down to brass tacks,
says Editor Pearl of the Hiawatha
News-Democrat, it is the gate receipts
we are all after.
Editor Jordan of the Seneca Trib-
une suggests that the horse that OBJ
jected to being careSSed by drunken
man had more sense than a lot of
women.
A hen was frozen to death the other
day because she refused to leave her
nest, notes the Bucklin Banner, and
it adds by way of comment: And
should not be allowed to vote.
AS the worm turns, according to a
report in the Americas Greeting: The
women folk have got tired of cutting
the woods and several men with axes
and saws have been seen the past
week headed toward the timber.
And it may be that a mirage of the
p1aids of Scotland fitted across the
eyes of John Macdonald, just before
he wrote the following for his West
ern School Journal: The funeI cal
black, so conspicuous in mems attire,
is a heart depressant. Contrast with
of cheerfulnesS into public functions
in the days of Washington and the
fathers. Blue, yellow, red, brown
everything but black. Let the colorS
return. AS our French brethren would
say, a has the black
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Man may be fearfully and wonder
fully made but woman is more so.
i J. j.
Nearly every mother secretly hopes
that her daughter will marry a mill
nOnaire.
= i i
When a girl wishes to rebuke man
thoroughly she tells him that her
mother has poor opinion of him.
4 = =
Gratitude and appreciation are
qualities which are more strongly
manifested when additional favors are
expected.
A woman's idea of leaving a man
with a barbed arrow when she
throws him over is to remind him
of his faults and shortcomings and
then tell him she tolerated him just
because he amused her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
THE NEGRO IS MARCHING ON.

An impressive measurement of
negro progress in the fifty years since
emancipation is contributed by w. E.
Burghardt Du Bots, editor of The
Crisis, as one article in a notable
group which appears in The Survey,
to celebrate the completion of the half
century. Prof. Du Bots says:
I'm 1863 there were about 5000, 900
persons of negro descent in the Unit
ed States. OF these 100000 and
more were just being released from
slavery. Ninety per cent were total
ly illiterate, and only one adult in six
was nominal Christian. Fifty years
later, in 1913, there are in the United
States 10,250,O00 persons of negro de-
scent, an increase of los per cent.
The negro was freed as a penni-
less, landless, naked, ignorant labor
err BY 1910 he had gotten hold of
100000 acres of land and we can
estimate his total wealth today at
$57O.0OO,O0O.
To-day the negro is a recognized
part of the American government; he
holds 5000 offices in the nation, fur
nishes four regiments in the army
and a large number of sailors, holds
at least 10000 state and city offices,
and furnishes 100000 of the votes
which rule the union.
To-day negroes have $4,000 church
edifices, worth $56, 900. There
are 200 private schools and colleges
managed and almost entirely sup
ported by negroes, and other public
and private negro schools have re-
ceived in forty years $45,000,0OO of
negro money in taxes and donations.
This. then, is the transformation
of the negro in America in fifty
years; from slavery to freedom, from
5,0O0,O 600 to 10.250,O00, from denial
of citizenship to acknowledgements,
from being owned chattels to owner
ship of S570,000,000 in property,
from unorganized responsibility to
organized group life, from being
spoken for to speaking, from con-
temptuous forgetfulness on the part
of their neighbors to uneasy fear and
dawning respect, and from inarticu-
late complaint to self-expression and
dawning consciousness of manhood"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
IFrom the Chicago News.1

A coquette is a girl who syndicates her
affections.
Even successful checker player WORKS
the square
This is sour old world for a man wIcl
a sour disposition.
Charity is responsible for lot of worth
less advertising
Even light beer has been known to gen.
crate dark brown taste.
We would rather have our faults over
looked than to overhear them.
Most women know more about men
than men know about themselves.
Few men can look back at their past
without wanting to dodge up an alley.
Your neighbors may know that You
have money, but what they may Lot
know is how you got IT,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
KANSAS COMNENT
A BAN ON THE GREEN.


Everybody knows that in the popu-
lar mind some precious stones are sup
posed TO assure the wearer good luck
While others are linked with all man
ner of misfortune An opal, beautiful
as 1T is, is viewed with superstitious
dread by many people while rubies
ana other stones meet with enthusiast
. TIC approval. So much for gems. But
IT is now declared that i'll luck and
good luck are associated with colors.
Green seems to be the color most under
the pan. 1t is supposed to bring moth
ing but unhappiness to the Irish and
other Celtic people So eminent an ar
list as Sir Edward Burne-Jones writes:
1t isn't lucky for any Celt to wear
green" which is rather unfortunate for
the Irish people considering that it is
their national color. In this connection
1t may be noted that Parnen the great
irish leader had a mortal horror of
green and always felt that the con-
slant misfortunes of Ireland were due
the adoption Of that color. 1t was well
known that he was always nervous
when speaking from a platform draped
with green, and also that he had an
idea of the Irish people to choose some
other color. These popular diversions
for some gems and color, and equally
popular partialities for others show
how slowly superstitions die. Prob
ably they will never entirely pass away
for reason that life is so bounded by
the invisible and unknown, and there
fore by the mysterious. But it is graft
flying to know the old cruel supersti-
tions that used to entail bodily pain
and death for people have ceased in all
civilized 1ands.-Norton County News.
A NERVY PRINCELING.
King Nicholas of Montenegro is a
fussy fellow. He overruled his cabinet
and his board on strategy when they
commanded him to fight and capture
Scutari, Albania. He didn't fight nor
wouldn't but besieged the semi-Turk-
ish town. Now that it is to surrender
on an order of the allies, backed by
the powers, King Nick declares he
must be allowed to go into the city
at the head of his troops, get the
honor. ct cetera, and come home to
CettlnJe with his co1ors flying and his
bands playing, a candidate for a Car
negie medal. The king reminds one
of other persons known in time past,
woefully absent when there was wood
to saw, but right on the dot when it
came time to divide the piece of pie.
In other words, "he has his nerve."-
Hutchinson News.
AMUNDSEN'S WEAK POINT.
Amundsen says the weather was
warm in the neighborhood of the
South pole when he made his great
discovery. He was wearing light fall
clothing at the time, and probably
carrying a green cotton umbrella, al
though he doesn't say so. He is a
great explorer, but he isn't a success
as his own press agent. If he wants
the people to appreciate his exploit
he shouldn't tell such stories. He
should insist that the weather was
cold enough to freeze the whiskers off
a stone image. There's nothing heroic
in the picture of a polar explorer Jog
ging along in perfect comfort.-Em-
poria Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
DAFFYDuS
BY o. NoALL.

Did you ever notice that an auto
is always tired?
(Honk Honk! , Honk! >
If fine feathers make peacock
poor what makes an ostrich?
(That guy is worthy of a reward.
He's the boob that put the oyster in
the soup.)
If the boss fired the cook who would
the campfre2
CAS- Dat Abar says: Even rubbers
are no protection against all the
siuSh)-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

TFrom the New York Press.1
Friends much bigger expense than
smoking and drinking.
Inc marriage tie that binds does it so
tightly it cuts right through to the bone.
When a man gets a powerful yearning
to be a farmer, it's a sign he never was
one before.
The only way you can prize having a
right is for somebody else to want to get
il away from you.
What makes widow SO interested in
lis tening to a man instead of doing he
talking is she's willing to take her turn
now when she has to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Men, of course, change with the
times Senator Bristow now deplores
the spoils system. But after he was
relieved of his first government job
and before he decided to become a
candidate for the United States SEN
ate, he wrote voluminous and interest
ing letters to the then Senator Long
asking him to find a place for him in
the government service that would pay
about $500 a year and that also
would not demand the entire attention
of the incumbent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

A hunt is now being made to ascer-
tain the volume of water in the stock
of the Kansas Natural Gas company.
1t is easy enough, though. for the con-
sumers to discover the amount of air
in the gas on getting their bills after
a cold spell when there has been little
or no gas to burn. Incidentally. it
seems to be more than rubbing it in
on the consumers to compel them to
pay for air so that dividends can be
provided for watered stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Now that a simon-pure branch of
the Bull Moose party has been organ
lied in Kansas, it is no more than
reasonable to assume that such of its
members, who would sacrifice their
personal interests to serve the people
in public office. will not enter the Re-
publican primaries and thereby at
tempt to become the candidates of
that partv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

If the Troutman bill becomes a law
and each county attorney in Kansas is
also vested with the powers of a di-
vorce proctor, the people will do well
to see to it that no man who has a
reputation for being an 'old gossip
is elected to a county attorneyship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
ExPECTTNG GREATNEss.

Isn't it a pity that through our
ignorance of mental chemistry we
should drive away the very things that
we long for and are working hard to
obtain; that because of our ignorance
of the laws of mental treatment we
should hold the very mental attitude
that repels what we are trying to at
tract, to draw to us? asks Orison
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Maryland, My Maryland" un-
doubtedly become the popular song
with the men in other sections of the
country. With rare wisdom, a court
there has ruled that wife is entitled
to no more tina none-third of her hus-
hands salary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
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 of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received In The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

1t seems little short of a crime that
the historic beauty of the City of Mex
leo should be destroyed by the war
ring of men who are probably most
properly classed as political brigands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Chicago is the modern Garden of
Eden" says minister of that city.
When does he expect the angel with
the flaming sword to appear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Incendiarism constitutes the latest
activity of the British suffragettes. No
one would probably be much surprised
if they began to shed blood before
long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Mary Garden denies that she is en-
gagged to be married. Still, if she
tried, she probably could find the man
. that proposed to DIR. Anna Shaw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Not even the Stone trust was toe
hard a proposition for Attorney Cen
eral Wickersham to tackle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

An expert in the premises declares
that ''brunettes are conservative and
sometimes gloomy" Probably that is
when they see one of their number
who has been using peroxide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Mayor Billiard is right again in ex-
pressing the opinion that SO per cent
of the measures before the legislature
should be killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

A Chicago wife is suing for divorce
because her husband wouldn't kiss
her. Maybe she kisses pet poodles or
Angora cats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Wise folk will heed the advice of
the secretary of the Topeka Provident
association to the effect that independ-
ent, unreported charitable work in a
city can often do more harm than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Some Kansas farm land sold the
other day for 5000 an acre. But
portion of it planted to asparagus
netted over $500 an acre last year.
Speak I'D, California, Texas ct al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

At least Edison's new kinetophone
can not possibly be any more painful
than the efforts of the. pianist and the
man with the noise-makers to accom-
pany the action of the moving pic
lures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

1t is said that Japanese people never
kiss. Considering the matter at close
range, who can blame them?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Couldn't Castro find a chance tC
start something in his line in Constan
tinople, if he went there without
delay?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Now every one will have to listen
to a lot more from Los Angeles about
its wonderful climate. A Los Angeles
woman, los years old, is about to be
ma rried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Therefore all things whatsoever We
would that men should do unto you, do
We even So to them: for this is the law
and the prophets. st. Matthew VII : II.