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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
ON TIE SPUR
OF THE AOMENT
Twas Ever Thus.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

twas Ever Thus.
I tell you what, your friends come round
:HoBq eul no no6 dsIs pue
And friends you never knew before hand
you a hearty whack.
The things you say all make you feel
just like you are king.
They listen and they laugh right out
when you say anything.
There's nothing in the world too good
for you," that's what they say.
They tell you that the world will talk
about you some fine day.
They go and kill the fatted calf whene' er
you heave in sight,
They spread the pleasant salve on you
and surely spread it right
They're proud to know you, yes they are
and flatter they should
Your friends besfege you day and night,
When you are
Maxim
Good.
You never see single soul you know
from morn till night.
You. gaze around quite anxiously, but no
one heaves in sight.
You wonder where those friends have
gone you used to know so well.
You somehow miss the hearty laugh when
your best yarns you tell,
Nobody slaps you on the back or treats
you like king.
You cannot find an audience. You feel
the dreaded sting
OF failure in the atmosphere and cannot
tell Just why
The gatherings friends of yesterday are
wont to pass you by.
You miss the glad acclaim they gave, the
ever welcome shout;
For very few will stick by you
When you are
Down and
Out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

ANoTHER SUGGESTION.

California objects to the presence
of japanese in the state and is so es-
pecially opposed to their ownership
of land and settling down in perman-
emit homes that law has been passed
forbidding it, which Governor john
son has signed, in spite of the most
strenuous efforts of the national adj
ministration to induce him. to with
hold his signature.
Feeling that this is an act of in
Justice, as we'll as a violation of the
treaty between the United States and
Japan, the Japanese, who are a proud
and sensitive people and who have
hveG strictly up to the terms of the
treaty, are considerably worked up
over the matter, and a Straining of the
very friendly relations that have ex-
listed between the two nations is threat
ened.
1t has been proposed to refer the
question to the people of California,
but that does not appear to be the
proper method of settlement 1t is a
question of right and justice rather
than of sentiment, and a referendum,
while it would indicate the feelings
of Californians, would in no respect
determine the rights of the matter.
Statistics do not show that the
japanese are the menace to the state
the Californians claim. They show
that the japanese in California are
few in numbers and that their number
is yearly decreasing. Also that when
they have acquired land and made it
productive they have done what the
white citizens would not do. That is,
they have utilized land called worth
less and by industry have made 1t val
liable and thus have added to the
wealth of the state.
That is the way it looks from the
outside. However, there is very
general lack of information as to the
real conditions in California and the
suggestion has been made that the
appointment of a commission to in
vestigate the subject might be bene-
fetal in bringing about an adjustment
of the difficulty
Such commission, If appointed,
should be composed of men of ma
tional eminence, of undoubted fair
ness and ability, who have no preju-
dice for against the claims of Call
ifornia that it is being harmed by the
Japanese, and whose only aim would
be to find out the exact conditions
and arrive at some intelligent decision
by which the policy of the United
States may be determines. 1t would
give the country something to go on,
and the country is entitled to know
whether this move against the Japs
is senseless prejudice or whether
California is subjected to serious mem
ace.-Ottawa Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

Topeka might learn a lesson from the
other side of the world. The city of
Hobart, the capital and chief city of
Tasmania, has voted to purchase the
street-car sys -em now in operation,
and though the price agreed upon is
high it is deemed necessary to accept
the terms of the operating company in
order to regain possession of the city
streets The city proposes to make
many improvements, including the
building of new lines and extending
those now running to the suburbs. IT
ie expected that the rails and rolling
stock to be used will come from the
United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

last week, the women lined up pretty
strongly in favor of the saloons, and a
dispatch says that many of those who
were carried to the polls in the auto
mobiles of no-license advocates were
ungrateful enough to cast their ball
lots for license. In other states the
women have been vigorous opponents
OF the saloon. In Massachusetts,,
where they have the privilege of vot-
ing in all school matters, they general
ly neglect TO vote at all. In all mat
tiers, says the Philadelphia Record, let
1t be noted, the women act very much
as the men do, and exactly as they
please
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

her only son. Such wife as you will
make me, Ann, will be an incentive, not
stumbling block. You do love me?"
Ann nodded as well as she could in
the restricted space between Billy's left
shoulder and cheek, which she occupied.
Say it, Ann
II can't
Then write it, ordered Billy.
Furiously Ann seized a pencil and on
a sheet of paper lying on Billys desk see
wrote in capitals, IT love you.'
Five minutes later!
Billy, 70 you think I'll get it,"
Get what, Ann?'
1.-The prize. You see, I've sent in a
story. I'm sure it's the best I've ever
written"
II hope so, dear. But of two things
I'm sure. One is that any prize you will
get cannot equal the one I've just won.
The other is that what you have just
written on that paper will always be to
me your best story."-(Copyright, 1918, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
According to Uncle Abner.

Some fellers get by with lodge buttons
and others work fer Twin.
A lot of fellers have the reputation OF
bein' highbrows simply bekuz they are
baldheaded.
ST gown and not be talked about by her
dear feminine friends. A poor mans wife
has got to wear the real goods
The main difference between genuine
ca1abash pipe and an lmltauon ca1aoasn
pipe is the price.
There amt no man who kin offer you
as much advice on how to run your busi-
ness as some Teller who has failed in his
own.
A citizen of Burnips Corners, which is
in a dry neighborhood, teiephoned to the
express agent the other day and asked
rs there any express for me?'' After a
lapse of several minutes the voice of the
express agent rumbled back: NO, Mr.
Teller with thick eyeglasses is purity
hard to beat in a business deal or in a
poker game. .
income tax if the boss would ALLOW 'em
the necessary income.
IT beats all how eyeglasses Will relieve
the monotony of a long nose
Most street cars are pay-as-you-enter
and most automobiles are pray-as-you-
enter
There is only one class of people that
gossip as much as the wimmen and they
never vet see a foreign nobleman who
didn't look the part
model husband is a Teller who kin
,,atya HE wife believe his excuses.
Abner Jones ran away with the hired
girl about six months ago, and now every
time his wife hears knock at the door
she Jumps She Is afraid the hired girl
is bringing him back
1t is getting so woman kin make
salad out of almost anything and all
salads taste alike with French dressing
on 'em.
a true friend is the Teller who comes up
and takes a campaign cigar out of your
vest pocket and smokes it.
1t is just some fellers luck to be run
over by q garage wagon when there Is
S. 900 oatmobile going by every minute or
two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

the laws regarding aliens, is COM
handing the support of eastern jour
nails generally. regardless of politics.
There are said to be 100000 persons
in this country who could become citi-
zens and have not done so. Their fail
ure to do so probably is due to COM
pick laws on the subject. This is start
ling in its suggestion of the potential
ity of that vote, should it ever come
under some concentrating influence
and be marshalled in any substantial
ly united phalanx to claim its right to
the ballot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
FROM OTHER PENS
A NEW KANSAS IDEA.

Complacency has overtaken Kansas. She
is SO far ahead of her sister states that
she can be deserted now only with the
aid of powerful field glass. and it seems
she is getting lonely in her isolation. She
wants to sit down by the wayside, collect
her thoughts clustered by the speed OF
progress, and wait for the rest of us to
catch UP. This attitude is reflected in the
suggestion of Governor Hodges that the
legislature take a ten years vacation:
Let the Legislature disband for a num-
Der of years, until the state catches up.
We have greater number of progressive
avs upon our statute books than any
other commonwealth. There IL no
demand for any special legislation at this
time"
The governor, who recently suggested
mat IT might not be a bad thing to turn
the states business over to a commission
sitting continuously is doubtless indulg-
ing IN his little joke. His intimation that
the people of Kansas have not vet d.
gested the new laws is interesting, how
come to look to Kansas for light and
leadAng, they will not be inclined to be
too sxacting They will consent to allow
vided they don't loaf too long Kansas
should remember that she owes II to her
self as well as to her sister states to keep
Kansas" and answering If to the best OF
her legisltors' ability. Criticism and ere
at1ve effort go hand in hand in Kansas-a
universal protest If the political labora-
tory We're to be padlocked and the key
loSl.-Cnlcago Record-Herald
6
YES. LET THE ROOSTER crow
1t is said that the rooster NAV be mazda
nolseless by cutting one of his vocal
chords; that he will still go through his
ADDRESS to the sun through instinct and
derive such solace as may be necessary
TO his proud position without disturbing
the neighborhood 's
1t may be true, but 1t should NOT he so
we cannot afford to disrupt institutions
so violently. BOOSTERS should NOT he AL
lowed within Growing range of the man
VINO has played bridge until in the morn
ing, but they are entitled to their express
sionS OF emotions. A standard sinni1a
would be destroyed. and once the invasion
OF natural rights was undertaken where
would it end? Next thing somebody will
propose the introduction of a deaf and
dumb cricket on the hearth. The CAT will
pc penalized for loud purring and the dog
discouraged into the silence helpful to
burglary. Shall our youngsters be denied
the squeal of the pig and the salutatory
OF the cow to her calf?
Inc ROSTERS call fits in with this SWIM
phony. He is not of the city. His critics
are Moving rooster into town is as
Illogical as placing an automatic piano IN
a. cornfield. He is entitled to his vocal
chords. which also produce a rfghtfuI
lrr1tant upon the boy who would evade
the chores. With this line of reasoning ne
becomes part of a chain OF endeavor
But enough. Let us not only grant the
rooster the continuance of his vocal
chords but spray them IL they become re-
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
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 at the rate
of ten cents a week or thirty cents
"A month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. Whlie
out of town the State Journal Will ne
to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

In these days of uncertainty and
alleged business unrest it is an
nounced by Chicago wholesale mer-
chants that their sales are the great
est in their history; so great in fact
that they have been forced to write
letters of apology to customers oW-
Ing to inability to fill orders on time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

Husbands in the state of Washing
ton must support their families. If
they neglect to do this voluntarily,
the authorities lead them gently to a
field of stumps, and they are required
TO hoist the same from a soil that
let's go with reluctance. Some of the
Washington stumps are believed to go
10 the center of the earth. clinching
on the end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

For genuine enterprise we commend
the ST. Louis newspaper which printed
a complete story of the Scoville-Mumm
wedding Monday afternoon although
the ceremony was not performed until
Tuesday. OF course it had no means of
knowing that the church would be in
use for other purposes on the appoint
- 5av
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full oay
feiegrsuh report of that great news NJ
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
pubhca ton in Topeka
nal building over wires for this sole puT@
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

'tShan 1 submit copy of this interview
to you after 1 have transcribed it?'' asked
the busy reporter. Well" replied Mr..
Dustin Stax, thoughtfully, IF you want
to make sure of my not contradicting it
maybe you had better submit copies of
1t to the directors with whom 1 am as
ISOLATED in various interests. ''-W ashing-
ton Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

r A. Long, Kansas City's millionaire
lumber dealer told a convention of
lumber men that their business is FALL
inc off How could it do otherwise in
the face of the fact that wood in build
ing is so largely supplanted by con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

OF course, the army and navy are
not afraid of the Japanese. Still, the
Army and Navy club in Washington
has fired its eight Japanese walters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

Deal justly with your domestic
servants" is the advice of Vice Presl-
dent Marshall. But he needn't worry ;
the hired girls will attend to that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

We are not informed that in its
anxiety to find a lobbyist the senate
has as vet called in MI. Burns, the
old reliable graft detective.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

TT is vulgar to dress SO to attract
attention on the street" isn't itI' IT
saw Miss Knobby going down the street
yesterday in a gown which caused every
man she passed TO turn and look at her."
Sure enough I wonder who is her dress
maker Il asked her. but she wouldn't
tell me."-Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

The question now arises; Is Eo1to
Newett eligible to membership in tn
Ananias club?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

If they have poetic justice in Sierra
Leone the cost of living must have
taken a sharp drop the day they hang
ed the forty cannibals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

The senators may not find the lob
by, but there is little doubt tnat the
lobby will find the senators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

Pittsburg seems to favor single
standard of morals for both men ano
superintendents of schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

James NJ Barrie, having been
knighted, is now merely a Barrienet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

Old Lady (watching moving picture pho
tographer taking a street scenel-'1 must
be getting deaf. That mans grinding his
hand-organ, and I can't hear a note
Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

Victor Murdock's bill to create a
federal naturalization commission for
the purpose of reporting the defects in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
TFrom the Chicago News.1

lfrOn the chicago NeWS.1
Many martyrs are self-made
Any man without friends is a man with
out money.
The bunko artist never wastes any time
on the hobo.
To him that hath trouble more shall be
given.
:, 1t takes other people to see the silver
lining of our clouds.
A mans wife will contradict him even IL
she happens to thinks as he does.
Many a man gets turned down while
waiting for something to turn up.
Sift the talk that you hear and you will
have one part wheat and nine parts chair.
A woman has as much excitement get
ting her fortune told man has in
making his.
1t is easier for the average actress to
get puffs in her hair than in the news
papers.
The girl who is as pretty as a picture
should never allow herself to get in an
ugly frame of mind.
Woman can put enough clothing in
winter to keep her warm, and take or
enough in summer to keep her cool
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

George, dear, what's this trouble be-
tween the Californians and the Japanese9''
why, the Californians don't want the
Japanese in that state to become citI-
zens and hold property" But George T
noticed that all the students in the grad
uating class at California theological
school this year are Japanese. Why should
the CalifornianS permit this ?'' fsOt
that's all right. Theological students are
never expected to hold any property -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

So, 1t must be some wheat crop,
regardless of the reports offered by
official crop killers. For the meek and
lowly chinch bug is no SLOUGH as a
garnerer, and, as a rule, can out-gar-
ner garnering college stude.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

The fight over the Wichita post
office is said to be a Bitter Contest
and Serious Matter, but up to late
hour this afternoon they were still
getting their mail in Wichita.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07

From which we gather that the Sc
rious part of a postoffice fight is Sc
rfous only to the contestants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Friend Hopkins, of the free employ
ment bureau, isGues a cordial invita-
ton to bo-hos, college boys ct cetera,
to join in garnering the golden grain,
at 81 day and board per garner. And
he figures that it will take about 49,
900 temporary toilers to finish the job
started by the chinch bugs
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-01

stated in an open letter that he would
be glad to participate in the lynching
Of the malefactOr. This reward was
quickly increased by the municipality
and private donors, and II S BauShn, q
detective, was called in BY the authOrt-
ties to solve the mystery.
Baughn's findings IN the case were
made public in a warrant for the arrest
In this warrant Baughn alleges that
Mrs Beach left her home on the night
Of the attack and that Beach. becoming
anxious over her failure TO return. went
out to look for her
Passing around the side Of his own
house to an opening in the hedge he
had an unObstrucped view between his
house and that Of Joseph Hartman
He then pulled a fence paling from the
fence there, according TO the complaint
and walked to a dark spot near the
laundry and stood in the shadow Ac-
cOrding to Baughn he then stepped out
from the shadow, and suddenly con-
frouted Pearl Hampton the negro maid
eXclaiming-
Don't hoIIer I'm not going to hrut
you Where is Mrs BeachT-
Baughn says that the girl professed
ignorance, Whereupon Beach told her
that il was "a dirty lie and struck
her with the fence paling. He then
dashed behind the laundry. says the
detective, and found MS Beach. but
ran after a white man dressed IN a gray
suit OF clothes, who ran out on the opl
pOSite side through the front gate OF
the Hartman cottage and up the street
Mr.. Beach. Baughn adds, turned and
followed his wife through the driveway
gate Of their residence to a point mid
way between the front fence and the
house. There it is alleged that he at.
tackled her and cut her throat 1t was
here that Mrs Beach's combs and ear
rings were picked I'D and not in the
front yard where she said that she was
attacked by the negro.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-01
LIVING COST.
TOO HIGHFOR
SALARIES
Food Prices More Than so
Percent Higher Than 10
Years Ago.
PREPARE STATISTICS
FROM HERALD FILES
Ell Paso Inspectors Paid Less
Than Coast Men, Though
Danger Is Greater.

- USTOM inspectors attached 70 the
FL PasO port have a kick The
- increased cost Of living mas not
kept pace with the salary paid them By
a beneficent government
To prove 1t, the inspectors have gone
to The file vault Of the FL PasO Herald
and have copied data from the market
reports and rental reports OF 10 yars
ago snow that while the cost Of HY-
ing here has more than doubled during
the past 10 years. the salaries have re-
NAMED the same An inspector In the
customs service receives So per day in
FL PasO, while the inspectors on the
seacOast ports, where dangers are much
less than on the Mexican border, re-
ceive the maximum Of SIS. TIE immi-
grafton inspectors stationed at FL PasO
receive 81 per day. although the work
is not 50 strenuous or dangerous as
that OF the customs inspector, they say.
The inspectors here have no crouch
against the government BELIEVING in
the fairness OF secretary Franklin Nc
Neagh, Of the treasury department.
they have prepared a simple statement
Of facts for his information and cOnsid-
Grafton and q request that they be Civ
en- a fiat increase of 90 percent over the
present salaries which. they claim, is
but sufficient TO care for the increased
cost of living IN FL PasO, over what it
,
were the same as they are now
This request has the endorsement OF
customs collector A L Sharpe. The
inspectors point cut to the secretary
that the custom service should attract
young men OF merit, who seek perma-
nent and not temporary occupation In
return they urge that a fair living
wage should be paid the inspectors on
the Mexican border. where the dangers
are greater and where the cost of liv-
ing is higher than in the interior or
on the seabOards-
Living Cost Increases Heavily.
The table Of prices for rents, food
stuffs and horse feed which accom-
panies the request shows a net increase
of 81 percent in rent and 81 percent
increase in the cost Of food and feed
from 1902 to 1912. Salaries have in
creased in business pursuits, they
point out, but have not been increased
in the government service The petit
ton is signed by the local corps OF
inspectors and was forwarded to Wash
ingtOn Saturday.