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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

BLIND JUSTICE,

1t appears that the Shylocks of today
who demand their pound of flesh that
the law allows are the public officials
who seem most DESTROYS of esta blish-
ing reputa tons of one sort or another
as active and alert servants of the peo-
pie. Else how is to be explained the
sentence of sixty days on the rock pile
and a fine of $500 that was recently i'm
posed in this city's police court on a
man who has passed the three score
and ten mark by two years? He was
convicted of violating the prohibitcry
law, the grosser crime in Kansas, it IS
true. But is there anything that
smacks of justice in such a sentence, of
the justice that should be tempered
with mercy when the occasions de-
mands. 1t does not seem so.
\ rigorous enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law is expected and demanded
of peace officers by a big majority of
the people of Kansas. If they We're not
of this mind they could shape things
for the repeal of the constitutional pro-
vision that places the ban on the barter
of Intoxicating liquors. But it isn't at
all likely that this same majority of
Kansans are at all in sympathy with
any efforts to make the law an instru-
ment of torture. And that is just what
is being done when a man seventy
two years old is sentenced under it to
pound rock for sixty days and pay a
fine of $500, or in lieu of the latter. to
keep on pounding rocks for another
year or more, and especially when such
an outraseously severe sentence is ap-
piled to an offense that concerns the
sale of a single half-pint of whisky.
OF course the minimum Jail sentences
for Violat lions of the prohibitory law
are fixed specifically in the statute, but
a judge who imposes any sentence has
the right to suspend it under such con-
ditions as he sees fit to frame. And a
suspended sentence, with the under
standing that it would be invoked and
perhaps further punishment added il
it's recipient did not conduct himself
properly in all particulars, would GER
tainly have satisfied justice in this
case. Kansans are proud of the fact
that it's youthful offenders against all
laws are given another chance and the
consideration to which their youth en-
titles them. Is not extreme old age de-
serving of like consideration when it
comes to the infliction of punishment
for any kind of a misdeed?
This is matter that is left to the
discretion of judges, and no judge adds
to his luster or enhances his reputation
for efficiency by sentencing an old man
to the rock pile for sixty days, even
though the honor of the prohibitory law
be at stake
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
Close SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHSON GroRE

To be real popular agree with people.
desk motto soon becomes very tire
some.
You can't satisfactorily explain away
high taxes.
The best typewriter is the one you are
used to using.
Unmarried couples just stroll along.
Married couples rush along.
Blaming your trouble on someone else
is no sure way to get out of it,
Possibly they are called game laws be-
cause SO many men try to beat them
Plenty of women pity a woman, but
those who will forgive her are rare
enough.
Acquired on a vacation, the coat of tan
is the most expensive wearing apparel
1t is better to whistle than whine, but
occasionally it is good thing to Talk
Plain.
While a man may not be entitled to
any bad habits, he is apt to have one or
two.
During a summer like this it is hard
to believe there is anything like love in
the tropics.
Man is so conceited that it is easy for
him to understand why woman falls in
love with him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
EVENING CHAT
ExclUSiVeneSS.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

"A high degree of exclusiveness is
only possible to do-nothings and only
priced by know-nothings."
Last Spring the question came up in
our family as to the choice of suburb
for a summer boarding place.
There were two or three possibilities.
I had almost settled upon one of them
when 1 received a call from an &C
quaintance of mine. who is occasionally
so kind as to honor me.
In her patronizing way she asked me
if I had decided yet where We would
live during the summer. 1 told her
She lifted her eyebrows. But, my
dear, L thought you said you were go
ing to the West Side"
II did say so.'' admitted but I de-
cided 1 liked the Heights better"
You don't mean itr' exclaimed she.
II thought the West Side was infinite
ly nicer
But why?" 1 asked TT is much
lower, the car service isn't so good, and
nowhere in the West Side is there so
much open country or such a lovely
view as we have at the Heights
"Oh, yes she admitted. II know
you have a good view there. but, my
dear, the West Side is so much more
exclusive. I should think you would
prefer it,
Being less bold with my tongue than
with my pen, didn't say what 1 want
ed to. That was. My dear woman,
don't care a hang either for exclusive
ness or for the people who affect it.
That was one of the very reasons I
didn't go to the West Side"
But that was exactly what I felt.
1 hate excltsiveness. 1 hate exclu-
sive people and exclusive things. Or 1
should say L hate people and things
whose chief recommendation is their
exclusiveness.
Perhaps you wonder what I mean
by exclusive things. 1 mean things like
diamonds and orchids, that people care
for not so much because of their beauty
as because of their costliness which
makes it impossible for every one to
have them-in other words, their ex-
clusiveneSs.
In a florists window the other day
l saw small plant with three or four
orchid blossoms on it. Underneath was
marked the price-$300. Now some rich
man will probably buy that orchid, not
because of the beauty, but because of
the price. because he will know he is
getting something exclusive.
The desire for eSccluSiveness in either
people or things is sure to give one a
distorted vision.
The man or woman of any class who
always seeks to meet only his or her
particular kind of people will naturally
grow narrow in mind, and atrophied in
soul and sympathy.
People, said a man who had Just
passed through that tremendous maeI-
strom, the New York subway, "sad.
they are interesting. Make a man al
most willing to have been born"
L think that is a great and true SEN
tence, and the man or woman who is
not interested in the big world of COM
mon people, the man or woman who
WorShlps the fetish of the small minded
-exclusiveness-i punished by losing
half the flavor of life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
PUNISHMENT AND CRIMINALS.

To say that punishment deters the
criminal from repeating his crime is
nonsense, writes H. Fielding-Hall, in
the August Atlantic. All study of
criminal facts proves this3 it makes
him more prone to crime, not less;
and all the great crimes are commit
ted by men who have been still further
ruined in jails. Whatever good effect
punishment may have is exercised
on others not on the criminal. And
even this is very slight. Men are not
usually deferred from crime by see
ing others suffer. Here, again. all
records support this truth. Severe
punishment does not deter from crime.
The savage punishments of the Eng
fish penal laws a hundred years ago
did not lessen crime at all Carrot
ing in England was not stopped by
fiogging, as is so often asserted nor
will it stop the white slave traffic as
is hoped. Crime is a disease: and
will you stop a fever by Furnishing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
BY THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

After a short season of rest, the
Thaw bank roll is again turned out to
take chances at outrunning gang OF
lawyers.
The hunger strike at Minot, n. D.,
strike. all the walking delegates IN the
workers of the World couldn't get
'em back inside of a year.
OF strike to labor is that one strike
should lap over into the next strike.
The local police court will have to
smoke up If it intends to hold a record
for maximum sentences. 1t looked
like the local talent had COPIED the
blue ribbon when an old soldier was
given about year of hard labor Tor
selling a half pint of booze, but the
grapevine carries a story of a country
J. P. who gave u small boy 80 days for
ste Ealing a watermelon.
laying it onto the girl, should try
something original. That was the
first defense ever offered by a he
thing, according to history.
Sulzer is still hurting defiance. Al
hurting defiance, Sulzer is some
hurler, but when it comes to hurting
the harpoon, Tammany has him out
claSSed.@ @f
Harry will no doubt be quite busy
for few days, but he should not per
nit less important matters to deter
him from having some new pictures
taken for the papers.
Atchison is a fine little city, but
there is one disadvantage to living
therein. One might not feel Justlf1ed
III taking the time, each week, TO De
inquisished by Bill Montgomery.
There is a growing suspicion that
Bill and his accomplices are really
fond of Atchison, and make the fire.
Cuent raid and inquisition an excuse
for spending a major portion of their
time up there.
Dodd CASTOR: What is the advan :
tage of having ones name on the door,
if the, office is full of carpet sweepers,
sausage grinders. post cards and other
department store junk?
New York man named Onion had
his name changed to Barrett 1t was
such a strong name he couldn't bar
rett.
That looked like there might be a
Wheeze concealed in it, and it Still
looks that way. At least we failed to
dig out anything but lame squeak.
But this is mighty poor weather to
expect one to chase a real grin into
a corner and hog tie it. We are doing
tolerably well to fill this space with
anything.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
Some who SOW wild oats reap grass
widows.
Killing time is the assassination of op-
portunty.
Even love doesn't mind making Sleeps
eyes at money.
BreVty may be the soul of wit, but it
isn't its sole existence.
1t takes tact to appear interested in
other peoples troubles.
The genius dreams while the plain or
binary mortal does things.
If success came only to those who are
fitted for It the chronic kicker would still
do business at the same old stand
JoaX-"Shakespeare told us all about
the seven ages of man. but he didn't say
anything about the two ages of woman
HoaN-"And what are the two ages of
woman? Joax-''The age she says she
is and the age she really is"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
The Diary of a Bonehead.

The temperature registered 1O2 last
evening when my wife suggested that
it would be good time to go over
and call on Mr.. and Mrs. Jones.
couldn't see why that time was better
than any other but just the same, we
went. On the way over we stopped
and picked up Mr.. and Mrs. Binks,
who also owed the Jones family a
duty call. Last winter they invited
all of us to a card party, so we owed
them a call.
where the gas lights were going full
tilt and trying to pile up dividends for
the owners of gas stock in our town.
The lights raised the temperature to
lis in the shade and there was no
shade to speak of.
We had been seated something less
than minute when the inevita BILE
happened. They trotted out Amaryllis,
their youngest daughter, who is a
shark on elocution. This was at s
o'clock.
Amaryllis started in with "Curfew
Shall Not Ring Tonight and, being
loudly appIauded by her parents. she
followed with THE Midnight Ride Of
Paul Revere
At $50, Amaryllis pulled the first
few stanzas of Hiawatha and being a
champ long distance elocutionist
she finished it by 10 o'clock Rinks
had peeled down to his shirt in spite
of the angry glances of his wife, which
somehow he failed to see, and I had
my collar off and my shoes under the
davenport
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones assured us that
Amaryllis could go on for an hour
longer and Anaryllis did, without any
coaxing, proceed right through until
midnight. When the clock struck I2
she was in the middle of the Ancient
Mariner and making unprecedented
time. Binks had been out for a half
hour and hung over his chair like a
damp dishrag.
We left suddenly, before the Ancient
Mariner had completed his journey but
could get away only by promising to
return next week and hear Poe's
Raven and Barbara F'reitchie We
were all so weak that we had to go
home in taxi
Before cultivating friends find out
if there is infant prodigy in the
family who has an inclination toward
reciting poetry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
HUAOR or THE DIP

Mother dmpatiently)-"I don't know
what Will ever become of that child. Moth
ing pleaseS him" Father (serenelYl-
Wen make an art critic out of him.
Puck.
Purchaser-"And will he scare at anv
thing?' Farmer-''M friend, this hoss js
jist afraid O. two things: That he WONT
get enough to eat. an that he won't
hear when / say, Whoa Judge
Old Lady (offering policeman a tractl-
otten think you poor policemen run
constantly mixed up with crime" Police1
man.You needn't fear, mum It's the
criminals wot runs the risk o. becornjn'
saints, bein mixed up with us."-Punch.
Your brother who waits on the table 10
much more countrified than Won - re
marked the summer boarder Hes .
regular rube: That isn't my brother .
Iepneo the farmers daughter. He's an
actor papa hired in the city to kid tha
guests. Judge. iU en~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
HAVE LOVED FLOWERS.


I have loved flowers that fade,
Within whose magic tents
Rich hues have marriage made
With sweet unmem DRIED scents;
A honeymoon delight
A joy of love at sight,
That ages in an hour
My song be like a flower,
1 have loved airs that die
Before their charm is writ
Upon a liquid sky
Trembling to welcome it.
Notes that with pulse OF fire,
Proclaim the spirits desire,
Then die and are nowhere
My song be like an air!
Die song, die like a breath,
And wither like bloom;
Fear not a flowery death,
Dread not an airy tomb,
Fly with delight. fly hence.
Twas thine loves tender sense
To feast; now on thy bier
Beauty shall shed a tear.
Robert Bridges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Sweet are the uses of adversity-to
the pawnbrokers.
=
Even the mucilage gets stickier
than usual during the hot weather.
i.
No man, regardless of what he may
think, has a mortgage on trouble.
r > =
If dogs could talk they'd probably
protest against the petting that some
women give them.
=
What has become of the old
fashioned man who wanted to fight
when called a liar?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

the patients? Whatever good jails
do. lies in the fact that they. isolate
tie unhealthy from the healthy COM
munity and so stop for time infec-
ton, as do hospitals with disease But
the hospitals do not discharge the
patient till he is cured; the Jail but
aggravates the liability to the disease
and turns out the sufferer worse than
before
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

parchment, each of its members will
receive pay during the life of the
court at a rate of $4,000 year,
which is the salary of a judge of the
court of last resort in that state. A
New York senator's regular pay is but
$1,000 a wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
HOME NEW; 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 tfie rate
~ ten cents n week or thirty cents
a month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. Whlle
out of town the state Journal VIII ne
TO Won like daily letter from nome
Advance payment ia requested on
r,leSe short time subscriptions, to save
lRnolSLeNning eKDcnSeS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

You say that man has exaggerated
ego? Yes" replied the physician. And
delusions of grandeur" Undoubtedly"
Il suppose it's only a short time. then,
till he will be on his way to the asylum"
Not necessarily 1 think we will avert
that by putting him out a stump speak
err If we can persuade his audiences to
take him seriously, his miSfortunes will
be the making of him.''-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Charity covereth a multitude of sins,
indeed. Gambling in Belgiums fam
Gus resorts, Ostend and Spa. is to be
resumed on the understanding that 55
per cent of the profits of the gaming
tables are to be handed over to char
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

In all likelihood the Tammany
members of the New York senate will
see to it that the impeachment pro-
ceedings against Mr.. Sulzer are drawn
oLt as long as possible. When the
senate is organized as court of i'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Evelyn Thaw is probably much peev-
ed that Harry was captured SO quickly.
His arrest will cut off lot of the free
advertising that she needs so badly
in her business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
ON TIE SPUR
OF THE NOMENT
Don'ts for Hot Weather.
By ROY K. MOULTON.

Don't wear fleeced-lined underwear
Don't eat more than twenty-four
buckwheat cakes at a sitting
Don't split wood for your wife
Don't wear furs or carry a muff.
Don't wear arctics or a bearskin
cap.
Don't hang around cook stove all
day.
Don't do any sort of work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Henry Lane Wilson is of some use
to the administration, after all. 1t will
not be necessary to appoint an ambas
sador to Mexico until next October
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Apparently, no tut tuts' have been
waited in the direction of Congressman
Doolittle. He says that Mr.. Wilson is
a real president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

News from Washington indicates the
possibility of the Democratic party be-
ing split by the currency question of
today in quite as disastrous fashion
it was in 1896. on the same sub
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Now the Washington fans will have
a fine opportunity to show their mettle
and caliber. A large bloc of stock of
the Washington Ball club is to be OF
fered for sale to the public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

American lawyers will probably be
exceedingly sore at Harry Thaw be-
cause he has given their Canadian
brethren chance at the Thaw fortune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Indications are that August may
prove to be the hottest and windiest
month that has ever been recorded in
Kansas. But it will have to get busy
and work mighty fast to shine as the
wettest August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Mavbe the reason why Sulzer or his
wife took that little flyer in Wall
street is to be found in the fact that
he has been indulging in scientific
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

John Lind must be something of a
sweet singer himself to hold the ear
of Mr.. Huerta for a couple of hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Kansens have become so used to in
tense heat that when ordinarily cool
weather does arrive. many of them
are likely to complain that is it I'M
omforta BILE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Japan is finding that a reputation is
a hard thing to live down. Huerta sent
General Diaz to Tokyo and now an
emissary from Castro is expected there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

People VINO are back home resting
up after their vacations. are not as
sorry for the congressman as they were
a little while ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

These are not dull days at any rat
in the baseball business. There is mucl
buying and selling of players.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Ben Tillman is the same old alarm
ist that he was in the days of his
youth. He expresses the opinion that
the right of suffrage will eventually
bring ruin to women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Why should MuIhall mourn because
the title of colonel has been taken from
him. He has recently been given
number of others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

me state Journal is a member OF the
feIeeraph report OF that great news NJ
9anization for the exclusive afternoon
Rublfcetion in Topeka
The news Is received IN The state jour
nal building over wires for this sole paS'
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

One swallow doesn't make sum-
mer. Nor does a dinky little thunder
storm or two break a drouth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

Two weeks vacations were far toe
short to get away from the heat OF
this Kansas summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
FROM OTHER PENS
BIBLE CIRCULATION.


There is ample evidence to prove
that the Bible if not the best seller"
is; at least the most widely circulated
of books. Discounting the higher
criticism, and the fact that no re-
spectacle household is supposed TO
permit itself to be without a copy.
however seldom it may be opened, the
American Bible society issued S5S4O9
more Bibles in 1912 than in 1911. Its
issues last year, in all countries and in
many languages, were 4,949,610; and
it offers Bibles and parts of Bibles in
S3 languages and dialects in the
United States alone. Even the Zulus
may read the Bible in their own
tongue. The American Bible society
is preparing to celebrate its centen-
NAL. 1t was born in 1916. The first
year of its existence it put forth $40
Bibles, its total receipts being $37,773.
Growth has been slow but steady, until
last year it almost touched the five
million mark, and had $4,000 avail
able for its regular work. Before it's
centennial year it will undoubtedly
have printed 100,000,000 copies. The
awakening of China accounts for the
circulation of I,36S,0OO Bibles and
parts of Scripture; Japan took 1873, 900;
Turkey and the Balkans '16! 900, and
little Korea, among the most recent
Of nations to be opened to Christianity,
circulated $4,000. Mexico, where the
people have more use for bull fights
than Bibles, is lowest in the enumera-
ton, but managed, after all, to take
d
showing, this, proving that the gospel
according to the Christian faith cir
culates among all nations and nearly
all tribes, and has been more generally
translated into foreign tongues than
any other book ever printed. Even
the South Sea islanders have not been
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
o.
ARGENTINA'S 1910. 900.
An appropriation of 100000 to estab-
lish an embassy at Washington has
been approved by the Argentine gov
eminent. The action has two interest
ing points of significance. 1t shows
that Argentina has commendable re-
spect for the United States. And it
also indicates that the southern repu5-
lie has large measure of self-respect,
which is even more important. 1t GER
tainly is an indication of deficiency in
self-respeot when a great and wealthy
nation compels it's ambassadors to live
in rented houses and to pay the cost
out of their own pockets. The anti
quated system to which the United
States clings so tenaciously is a very
poor advertisement. Aside from Civ
ing false impression of national mig
gardness it tends to indicate that the
United States is careless of appearances
and lacking in dignity. The object les
son applied by Argentina should have
some effect in Fastening a greatly de-
s1rable American reform. 1t should be-
come a matter of shame that another
American republic SO far surpa sses the
United States in care for and pride in its
diplomatic service.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

When farmer constructs a silo on
his place he builds real castle in the
ir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

While talking about muZzling the
dogs, why not muzzle the dog days?