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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1


he matrimonial odds are two to one.
The talkative man is an automatic self
entertainer.
To try to look intelligent is easier than
making good.
Some of US might be better husbands IL
We had better wives.
A man never boasts of his will power IL
his wife is around.
One way to avoid a quarrel is to be alb
sent at the psychological moment.
If a man has too much money it's no
task at all for him to acquire more.
Between two evils it is better to marry
for money than for chance to get even
Few men are willing to take good ad-
vice If it is free; also they hate to pay
for 1t.
The eriterprising summer girl has no use
Tor the young man who wastes his time
kissing her hand
A successful ffnancier is whom
everybody claims to have known when he
didn't have a dollar to his name.
To man who is getting a small salary
and has large family to support home is
the dearest place earth.
According to statistics, one woman in a
thousand can open a telegram with as
little emotion as she displays in opening a
can OF corn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

in spite of Terry's conjectures, and AFT
ter a week of hard work they had earn
ed nearly the hundred dollars. The
colored buttons remained unsold and
Terry yielded to temptation and bought
them. That night when Roger called
at the Office to take Terry home she
handed him the little package.
There is present for you, Roger"
she said. II bought them to help the
cause. Are they quartz?'
For heavens saker' gasped Roger,
where did you get them? This" he
said. holding UP an uncut greenisn
stone. this I am sure is an Oriental
emerald. one of the rarest of stones,
and this he went on holding a blood
red stone to the light, this is a star
ruby. These two stones alone are worth
four or five hundred dollars any
time
Terry explained how she had secured
the stones and though she felt that she
owned them, Roger insisted that they
must be returned to Mrs. Bett-Jones.
Together they went to Mrs. Bett-
Jones's house on their way home They
found her hurrying to dress for dinner
and she had little time to listen to their
explanation.
II rather thought there were some
things of value" she said 81 told you
so, Miss Flagg. and 1 also told you
to sell them. and not to bother me
about them. My brother used to have
hobby for collecting stones. But he
soon tired of it. l think he did collect
some rather nice things one winter,
but 1 don't care about them" she
can realize anything on Them she
said smilingly. patronizingly, at Terry
II am very glad, but I don't see why
you took all this time to ask me about
it."
So Terry and Roger left Mrs Bett-
Jones and hurried back to the seclusion
of the park.
I'VE can buy furniture right away, 50
said Terry. who read Rogers thoughts.
And 1 laughed at Mrs. Bett-Jones's
button box."-(Copyright 1913 by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
INTO Already.

There is no highway, broad and free.
Straight to the goal of our pilgrim kind.
There's only a path into Already.
Were it a road that the crowd could see,
Even the halt might lead the blind.
There is no highway, broad and free.
E1ither and thither the way is twined-
There's only path into Already.
Thou who art seeking the road with me,
Cities and streets we must leave behind
There is no highway, broad and free.
Dear heart-what shall our guidestar be?
(Close-watch ELSEWHERE the foot
steps wind.)
There's only a path into Already.
Thousands are seeking in vain. but We
God be willing)-the way shall find.
There is no highway, broad and free
There's only path into Already.
Mark K. Powers in Smart Set.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
HVNOR OF THE D<Y

"I-that is-my lawn-mower is out OF
order, Mrs. Sharp. and-and I'd like 20
borrow yours" Certainly, doctor. But.
one moment Won't you spray Marys
cold. Yes. thank you. / think that squares
the mower. You'll find 1t in the she'd
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
ough in the matter of sightseeing. while
she was abroad Yes" replied Miss
Cayenne. She gives that impression.
While the others were going about seeing
the guide k.''-washington Star.
81 recommend for you. sir. little
change" Sorry can't take it. doctor.
but my wife's got all 1 had."-BaItimore
American.
al don't object to a man tellin' all he
knows said Uncle Eben, 'if he sure
enough an honestly knows all he tells
Washington Star.
Pop. what is a skeptic?" "A skeptic,
my son, is a person who can read patent
an of the symptoms described. Judge
Gibbs-'Last week read Nine. Calves
saying: Sing and your ills will vanish
vanish?' Gibbs-"No. but my friends did"
Boston Transcript.
why do you want new trial?" "On
the grounds of newly discovered evidence,
my client dug up $500 that I didn't know
he had-"-Washington Herald.
sell Gupp an edition de luxe set of books
How SOP" "All the agent has to say is,
Mr.. Gupp, you look like a man of inteli-
gence.' "-Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
by THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Mamma (whatever that was) is said tic
have been free to the Children 81
| Israel during the 40-year junket; i'll
looking over the new tariff schedule, we
discover mamma, whatever that was OF
now isl to be free to all, regardless OF
religious beliefs.
Hutchinson preachers are after Koon
! Beck. There is a suspicion among
| those who really know Koon Beck, that
the preachers would be more profita bly,
employed We're they after a rabbit
| Several friends in the office have vol
unteered comments upon the case OF
the Chicago gentleman who died and
left two widows. One suggests that it
was two bad, and another that even
the ldea is much for him to grasp.
But, figure-S-iveIy speaking, widows
is many, isn't it?
Ihere are so many problems OF a
mans life that he should refrain from
Keeping the neither portion of his shirt
where it belongs.
Military titles seem to be in great
demand on the chautauqua circuit Col
| Bryan draws we'll in the east, and Kan
sas would prefer Gen. Precipitation.
One Kansas lady who has made a
study of such things, thinks the plIe-
nomenal rise of the Kaw river without
the aid of rain. was due to the recent
Vesuvian eruption. Filling Fuller says
his guess is that the Kaw had to rise
little to get over the sand bars.
one, or several for that matter, might
gather from the Binghamton, N. Z,
tragedy that a fire drill is a bowling
| success when there is no fire.
Also. that overworking fire drill
gets the same results as did the
shepherd of allegory-the boob who
yelled WoIf' as pastime.
1t is our guess that this batch of
weekly cartoons will be the worst since
the idea started II years agone. This
department pleads guilty to the poorest
pictures printed in this paper during
said dozen years, but expects to make
record Saturday afternoon. We have
made our will; leaving our faVorite six
shooter to a close friend and the other
80 cents of our estate to the Immediate
family. and will try out a series OF
near-cublc cartoons The cubic sys-
tenn should be good for cartoons-it's
a cinch it isn't good for anything else
By the way: We have little ex-
perience in the cubic. but our interest
in anything new is pitiful. How would
YOU make a cubic cartoon of a far
lady in a, diaphanous white skirt
Please submit your guesses postpaid.
A Kansas cook named White. i'm
ported a female person named Lamm
White Is in durance-whatever that is
but the prosecution doesn't know
whether to charge him with White
slavery or sheep stealing.
Il wish,'' says Hondo Murphy. ..I
was in Canton, China, with a good
morse and a 42-foot rope. 1t is reported
that Canton merchants are fleeing with
millions. 1 cam think of nothing I
would rather do, than chase a fleeing
lions" t +
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
QUAKER MEDITATTONs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t doesn't necessarily take an athlete to
be long-winded.
Charity begins at home and is OFTEN ex-
pended on ones self.
A woman is never quite happy unless
her shoes hurt her.
Even the man with an iron will knows
his heirs can break it.
A dumb waiter can't talk. but neither
for that matter, can speaking tube.
A philosopher is often a man who dis
guises his dyspepsia with a cloak of WIS.,
dom.
The man who sets his best foot forward
is the one who gets there with both feet.
The cynical bachelor rises to remark
that variety is the spice that flavors the
sauce of love.
Shrinking and modest are words that
usually go together. but the shrinking
bathing suit is not the modest one.
Hoax-"Do you think we will have any
Joax-No; I'm told there will be coal to
burn"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Success seldom comes to those who
don't go after it.
r. p u
Every man thinks he is getting a
little the worst of it.
IL s% -
Neither does rank count for much
in the army of the unemployed.
d. r. ~
If dispositions controlled, there'd be
many more mules and fewer humans.
s& s% S%
Boating is, indeed, dangerous for a
young couple. If they don't fall in the
water they're apt to fall in love.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
The Thesaurus.

Inc 1neSauFuS.
"A Teller came through here about two
months ago sellin' what he called a
thesaurus for one-dollar- every-once-in-
awhile, and Hank Tumms fell fer it." said
Uncle Ezra Harkins.
rs that 500" asked the travelling man.
YES" replied Uncle Ezra. Hank
bought one and determined to make his
fortune out'n it, He built a large wrought
iron cage in his back yard and put up a
high-board fence around it. He said he
didn't know how large the critter was
and he made the cage plenty big enough
for it. Hank claimed how a tllesaurus
was a big prehistoric anirnile and said he
would exhibit 1t at ten cents throw. He
didn't know what he would feed it. but
bought fifteen tons of hay for a starter
and put an ad in the paper that the
thesaurus would be on exhibition to the
general public. Then everybody set down
and waited for the thesaurus to come.
Finally the mail man left it. 1t was
box about the size of a dried herring
box and when Hank opened 1t up he
found the thesaurus was nothin' but a
book about the size of dictionary. And
there he had gone and blowed S115 for
the cage and hay and advertising"
What did he do with the cage?" asked
the travelling man.
''Oh, the folks got together and put
Hank in the cage and are now exhibiting
him as the biggest bonehead in captivity
and his family will probably realize quite
neat little sum-" -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
HOME NEW6 WHILE AWAY.

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away from home during the summer
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ADVANCE payment is requested on
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Presumably the Chinese revolution
lists will cease their warning long
enough to give chase to the prudent
merchants who are beating it for neu-
trail places with their money bags
filled to overlooking. It's easy mon
ey that most of the revolutionists of
today are searching for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Uncle SANS plans to establish a
protectorate over Nicaragua should
also be taken by the Mexicans as a
gentle but forceful hint as to what
may happen to them eventually, if they
don't behave themselves and establish
peace in their land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Just the degree of civilization that
prevails in Russia is again indicated
by the decree of Car Nicholas for the
destruction of the three posthumous
works of Count Tolstoi because his
Holy synod has reached the conclu-
sion that they are unorthodoX COM
ments on the Old Testament. A lit
tie more attention to the teachings
of the New Testament would help
Russia considerably.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Neither is it at all likely that the
United States senators, who are now so
strong for armed intervention in
Mexico, would be among the first.
or even the last, to enlist, in the
event that such a move should be-
come necessary. It's the rule, not
the exception, that those who talk
war the loudest are perfectly willing
to let others do the fighting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

If Colonel Roosevelt is still obsessed
with the idea that he is going to be
elected to the presidency again, he
should spend all his spare time in
Washington getting pointers from
President Wilson on how to handle
congress-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

plans will be almost solely to the
benefit of the sugar trust. In other
words, the Democrats seem to have
shelved their trust-busting propa-
ganda for the time being.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Rest rooms are needed improvements
that are being placed in the Topeka
parks. But many more people could
rest in the parks and enjoy their beau
ties and many delights, if an adequate
number of seats were put in them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

More good news, especially for the
middlemen, is to be found in the re-
1uced freight rates to Topeka under
the decision of the Interstate Com
merce commission in the Mississippi
river rate case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Senator Smoot argues with forcible
logic that free meats and live stock
will be greatly to the advantage OF
the beef trust. Almost everybody.
outside of high Democratic councils,
Is agreed that the present free sugar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
ON THE SPUR
OF The MOMENT
BY ROY Il MOTIF TON
That Proud Moment.
p ROY x. MoULToN.

How his bosom swells with pride,
How he signs in deep relief,
How he feels a happy thrill
That is most beyond belief.
How he struts across the floor,
How he poses like a king
How he looks with lofty air
Upon every living thing
How he laughs and shakes in glee
How he almost chokes with Joy
When the nurse comes down the hall
And she whispers: 1T a boy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Doubtless Secretary Daniels now
understands why officers of the
army and navy are expected to
weigh their words.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Apparently the socialists are strong
for going after the man higher up.
They are blaming the recent riots
against them in Seattle on a speech de-
livered by Secretary of the Navy DAN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

As matter of. fact, it's very kind
of the European powers to take such
an interest in Mexico, with the Bal
kan allies still on their hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Brother Moore may we'll retire on
his journalistic laurels, as no other
editor ever succeeded in marrying
Lillian Russell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Currency reform legislation is Ger
tain at this session Of congress. Presl
dent Wilson says so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Apparently there is no honor
among lecturers. Senator Bristow is
no stranger himself to the chautauqus
circuit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

So far Roumania has fired no sho
in the Balkan war. Its glory crop
correspondingly meager.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Secretary Bryan's reply seems tc
leave Japan no recourse except to en-
ter a protest against our form of gov
ern Ynent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Bulgaria Is being attacked from the
south, west and north. The Black
sea lies on the east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
Full, LEASED WIRE REPOET
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

the state journal 10 q member Of the
Associated Press and receives ene rnn any
Sanizatfon for the exclusive anernoon
publicet ton in Topeka
The news is resolved IN The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
@os@s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

CoMMENCEMENT DAy.

Once upon a time a Gay Grad
thrust his diploma in his Norfolk and
went forth to Accept a Situation. He
was saturated with knowledge and
fun of High Purposes. and the proc
ess of wrestling living and other
emoluments from the Big World
looked like pipe. He flashed the
embossed sheepskin on several en-
poriums of High Finance, and told
the Main Gazabos a little of what he
knew. He had been we'll schooled
and knew a little of everything. But
he was disappointed in not being told
to name his own figures. He drew
several polite postponements and
some blunt refusals, but nary a sit
uation. Finally when his family
finances had reached a point which
made him regard a three-ball sign
and his frat pin as a means to a meal
ticket, he abandoned the situation
idea and took a job, consoling him
self with the thought that all the
Big Boys began at the bottom and
Worked Up. Moral: You can read
the foregoing again and tell why they
call it Commencement Day-Atchison
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
FROM OTHER PENS
Under THE SIN.

No one ever can tell what troubles
are to be Matched by the heat of
Warrington summer. The only sure
spring prophecy is that entanglements,
imbroglios and rows are certain to
arrive with the incoming of July, but
specification is impossible, so variable
and fantastic have been the midsum-
mer arrangements of the hot capitals
past. When the president called the
extra session of congress to frame ami
to pass a tariff bill the new members.
and the old ones who were forgetful,
said that there would be only the tir-
ing and the vexation incidental to the
discussion of one measure and that
when it was speedily over with they
could flee to the mountains and the
seasides to rest. 1t was a pleasant
dream with a pesky awakening. The
tariff is vexation, the currency is twice
as bad and the lobby business threat
ems to drive them mad. The asphalt
bubbles on the broad avenue. the mer-
curry keeps on mounting and troubles
continue to pile higher than the Vir-
ginia hills. 1t was only in the time
of red war that all was quiet along
the Potomac.-Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
THE PRICE OF CHICKENS

Time was when the farmers vile,
along about this time of year, used to
bring in dozen or more spring chick
ems, which she had spent the biggest
part of the day dressing-it's not the
easiest thing in the world to dress a
spring chicken-and considered herself
lucky if she got 121s or 10 cents each
for them at the meat market. n she
took them around to her own regular
"butter'n egg customers maybe she
got 20 cents each for them. Now
spring chickens, which by every law
of tradition and precedent, should not
be luxury after the Fourth of July.
are retailing at 80 cents pound.
Wouldn't women of a generation ago,
who never saw an incubator or broo-
der, laboriously setting the hens in the
hot barn loft, have opened their eyes
in establishment at such prices? A
man driving in with a load of live
chickens refused the other day to sell
one to woman on the edge of town
because it was too much trouble to
open the cage and take it out. He
knew the bunch would be snapped up.
at top prices, downtown, so what was
the use of bothering? The farmer may
nave troubles, when it hasn't rained
since nobody knows how long, but mar
keting chickens at six bits apiece isn't
one of them. Neither is the selling OF
eggs, which retail today at IS cents a
dozen, a poor price for summer time
Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24
NEMESIS IN BULGARIA.

Bulgaria acquiesced in the iniquitous
deposition of her undetermined Prince
Alexander and in the vile assassination
of her great statesman, Stephen SIAM
buloff. With selfish ambition she made
an unholy compact with Austria Hun
gary, by virtue of which she was to
proclaim her prince a car. so as to
overshadow her neighbors, while the
dual realm tore up the Berlin treaty
and stole the Servian provinces. She
made with one hand a treaty of alli-
ance with Servia, Greece and Mon
tenegro, and with the other betrayed
them to their foe. For years she con-
Quoted in Macedonia a campaign of
crime which has seldom been rivalled
in modern times for utter turpitude.
Today, however, blind and leaden-
footed Nemesis overtakes her and
smites with iron hand. She is stricken
on every side, even the vanquished
Turk returning to regain his losses.
Instead of arrogantly debating terms
of peace as she recently assumed to
do, she humbly sues for mercy and
offers to relinquish vast possessions to
obtain it. She will command. as she
deserves, scant sympathy in her woe
New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-24

Mamma, (whatever that was) is said to
have been free to the Children of
Israel during the 40-year junket; i'll
looking over the new tariff schedule, we
discover mama, whatever that was or
now isl to be free to all, regardless of
religious beliefs.