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The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25
EVENING CHAT
The Joy of Giving.
BYRUrA CAMERON.

Whenever most of US think of prac-
tical philanthropy, we push mental
button labeled "Pastime peculiar to
the odiously rich.' Therein lies a fall
lacy that robs US of much of the joy
of living; expressed in this instance,
in the joy of giving. 1t is true that the
very rich can afford to give largely.
It is as true that we can give not
largely, perhaps, but we can give in
accordance with our incomes.
The trouble with the people who con-
stitute the class to which most of US
belong, neither disgracefulIy rich or
disconcertingly poor, is that we give in
the abstract. At Christmas time and
again at Thanksgiving, we hearken to
the appeal of the Salvation Army. At
various times during the year we re-
spond to the need of the heather. A
famine in India, a flood in China, or
a lesser catastrophe nearer at hand,
wrings a dollar, or ten, from us,
Strange folk that we are, we go no
further. We can read "a Christmas
CaroP' and be divinely touched by the
story of Scrooge'S Softening, yet fail
to grasp the lesson that Dickens tried
to teach. The fact that Tiny Tim
is but a type, and that, if sins of omis-
sion are counted, we are to be reckoned
as but other Scrooges, escapes our OBJ
servation.
The point of all this? I can answer
as I have observed. know of a slim
ly salaried minister who devotes 10 per
cent of his income to helping needy
families he himself searches out. L
know of an old couple who would have
long since been separated, the one in
the poor house, the other in a home
for the aged INDECENT, were it not for
the charity of a girl who, from the
money she herself earns, pays their
rent.
1 know of a crippled child who has
a fairy godmother, whom you would
describe as just a colorless little
stenographer lady. L know of an old
blind woman who prays daily-hourly,
might almost say-for vera bonna
lass" who comes to her, chats with
her, and occasionally brings her the
luxury she Graves, tea, in quarter
pound packages.
1t may be that you do not know of
such cases. Then you have never look
ed. 1t may be that you think it would
be nice of you, but dull. You are wrong.
Scrooge gave not because he believed
1t his duty, but because of a strange,
sweet warmth that thawed his heart,
and because of a strange, new pleasure
with which he thrilled in the act of
giving.
Far-fetched it may sound to you. But
try it.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

ties. and both st. Paul and Minneapolis
are looking to this source for per
cent money. With the next decade, it
is prophesied, the income from the
state school trust fund will reach five
million dollars. This is due to the poll
icy which the state has long followed
of not selling the public lands which
came to it as resources for its schools.
These lands have become extremely
valuable, owing in a measure to their
timber and stone wealth. The income
from this fund at present is stated to
be about two million dollars. Iron
mine royalties paid the state five mil
lions last year. The state auditor is
quoted as estimating that within forty
years Minnesota will have an income
of 5000. 600 O00I Whatever discount may
have to be made from this rosy estf-
mate does not impair the moral that
the time to conserve your natural re-
sources is while you have them.-New
York Post.
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A DAY TO CELEBRATE.

Now that the blue and the gray
who virtually decided the fate of the
nation at Gettysburg are about to join
hands on that once-bloody battlefield
there comes a call from the south.
DIR. George Petrie of the Alabama
Polytechnical institute said in an ad-
dress a few days ago:
"In two more years it will be half
a century since the great war ended.
Shall we let that date go by unno-
ticed? The trials and the perils of
reconstruction are now over We are
one country at last, not only in name
but in spirit; and no section welcomes
this coming of real peace and frater-
nal feeling more genuinely than we
do. Would it not, then, be fine
thing If this semi-centennial could be
made the occasion of a national cele-
bration of the present good feeling
between all sections of our country
and the genuine reunion that has at
last Gomez"
This sentiment and this proposal
will find an echo in the heart of every
loyal man, north or south. None will
more heartily endorse this suggestion
than the men who wear stars and
eagles of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. And that it comes from the
south gives it the more weight and
demands for 1t the most earnest con-
sideration.
The United States, again really
united. owes 1t to itself and the
world to give a striking demonstra-
ton, on the fiftieth anniversary Of
the closing of the 'irrepressible con-
flict,'' of the fact that even within
the lifetime of many of the men who
engaged in it, the bitterness then en-
gendered has passed wholly away and
the wounds then inflicted have been
healed.
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as he got more and more into the
rythm of the old steps.
UP and down the floor he swung,
his breath perhaps coming a little
harder, his feet perhaps coming down
little more heavily, but still agile,
still lithe-he stopped. froze: a wom-
ans voice rang out on the other side
of the door.
who's there?" came the hysterical
scream.
1t was Helene's voice. 1t gurgled,
stopped for breath, then rose more
wildly than before:
''Helpl Help!"
Harold stood a moment in consterna-
ton. Then he brought a severe look
to his face, and strode to the top of
the stars.
Helene. Be still" he called down
sternly. It's only me. Heavens! can't
a man-be still, I say! What are you
rousing the neighborhood for?"
For a moment there was no sound
from the other side of the door. Then
"But-who was making all that
noise?'
Harold made a long face.
"I'n be down in a moment" he an
swered with dignity.
He could hear her going along the
hall to her room. her breath still hitch
ing as though she had had a pretty
bad scare. He stood in troubled inde-
cision; should he put away the things
and make up some yarn. about needing
exercise? Or should he just Swagger
down in his ragged old coat, with his
offensive pipe in MS hand and own up?
Being a man, he chose the latter
course.
Before he reached her room he heard
her sobbing. When he entered she
did not look up. Her face was buried
in the pillows.
Now you'll despise mel" she was
wailing. You'll see what a weak
creature I am! And. oh, yes, it's true;
when I found that Maud's husband
hadn't gone after all, 1 just sneaked
ho1re and put on this-because. I knew
you were going out
'What?" said Harold, puzzled.
Then his eyes took in the fact that
she was dressed in a robe of garish
reds and purples-a despised kimono.
''Helene!' he cried joyously, look
at your ideal husband!'-(Copyright
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
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POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES.

For many years it has been urged
by many Republicans that representa-
ton in the partys national conven-
tions should be based on votes and not
on population. This sentiment result
ed from a feeling that the south with
Republican vote scarcely worth
mentioning welded a power in naming
candidates entirely out of proportion
to its Republican voting strength.
If the rule had been changed before
tho Chicago convention of 1912, the
result might have been different and
it might not. But since that time a
new element has entered into the
problem. This is the woman votA
Before 1912 the states which had
conferred the franchise on women
were of not much consequence but
wit hthe addition of California, Wash
ington, Kansas and Illinois the suffra-
gists become a power to be reckoned
with.
Under the proposed change the un-
equal power will be transferred from
the south to the equal suffrage states.
If New York and Pennsylvania and
other eastern states do not enfran
chise their women they will reduce the
weight of their influence in conven-
tions-that is. if in correcting the sys-
tenn of representation the party or
ganizations accept a vote as a vote.
In such case Illinois, with women
voters, may send as many delegates to
a national convention as New York
can send without them. New York
would be obliged to enfranchise it's
women or accept the dimtnution of it's
voting strength in convention. The
suffrage states may be expected to
insist upon full representation for all
their votes, and other states to devise
a plan by which the advantage of the
suffrage states in conventions will be
offset.
The extension of the suffrage does
not increase the states vote in the
election of a president, but it might
double its vote in the nomination of a
president.
Probably the only satisfactory way
in the end will be to abolish the con-
ventions and nominate the presidential
candidate by direct primary, just as
the mayor is nominated in Topeka
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To A FAT RABY.

TO A FAT BABY.
Could I but catch the magisterial air,
The calm, portentous dignity you wear
When wheeled abroad within your little
chair;
Could T. by some especial act of grace,
Attain that round and Buddha-brooding
face.
That glance Indifferent to time and place;
Could I but act, and put it DER indeed
Upon the bland and cheerful infants creed
That all exists to serve my special need ;
What invitations would be mine to be
Committee chairman, sponsor, head trus-
tee!
What rush for aid. no matter what the
feel
How folks would hang upon a single
word,
AS if a voice oracular they heard.
How wisdom would my very silence gtrdi
How surely mine the lofty platform seat!
How hotly local greatness, when at meat,
Would send for me to make the thing
completei
Alas. fond fancyi Once, no doubt, I had
A presence like to yours But fortune sad
Deprived me of 1t when little lad!
And you who ride, prodigious, here today,
Too calm for laughter and too rat Tor
play,
And taking things in that imperial way
You, also, ere the lapse of many years,
The lost judicial air that "bunks" and
cheerSi
-Inter-Ocean.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.]

Good liars are astonishing1y scarce.
dramatically speaking, kiss" is
conjunction.
The cost of experience is never fully
realized until one goes to law.
The less hair woman has on her neao
the more she has in basket.
Did YOU ever know any one who apolo-
sized to a telephone girl? OF course!
A man seldom comes out on top unless
he is willing to start at the bottom
views when abroad than they display at
home.
The woman who owns pet dog thinks
It knows as much as she does and some
times she thinks correctly.
little girl believes everything her
father says, showing that she does not
take after her mother in all respects.
When woman finally discovers her
woman has a mortgage on him, isn't it
awful?
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HUAOR or THE DAY

You are getting very bald, SIR" said
the barber. You, yourself" retorted the
customer, ARE not free from a number Of
defects that / could mention II 1 cared
to become personal aL"-Louisville Courier
Journal
Hamlet Fatt is timorous about appear
ing In this town" Stage fright at his
age? Why, he's been on the boards fo,.
years" But this is the first time he was
ever billed for two nights in one place -
Louisville Courier-Journal.
lit seems to me that Scribbler's writing
has deteriorated since he became famous ;,
"Oh, 4 isn't that You see. since he he
came famous, he's been able to sell All
the rubbish he ever wrote."-Boston Tran
script
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KANSAS COMAENT
NOT THE REASON.

Down in Chase county there have
been no marriages this month. and
the probate judge who has charge OF
these matters, thinks it is because the
marriage fee is now 81, while by wait
ing until the first of next month tne
charges will be reduced to So. Tne
judge mentioned Is sore because ne
isn't getting any fees, and he gets
mean with the young folks about II.
Now no one in the whole country
would suspect for an instant that
little matter of a dollars difference
in the fee would scare any Kansas
couple away from the altar. III tney
wanted to get married they would get
married, and if the fee did not SUIT
they would hike off to some other
state where the price was lower. AT
the same time, however, is isn't
at all fair for Kansas to stick up the
price of marriage on people. Just be-
cause the cost of living is high along
other lines, is all the more reason that
the price for beginning life that way
should be cheaper. In fact, the state
ought to assume all charges for mar
riage of it's own citizens, and in addi-
tion to presenting the aspirants for a
license with the paper itself, the state
ought to pay the preacher, and provide
for a wedding gift for the newly mar
rted. There is nothing that deserves
encouragement as much as marriage,
and instead of voting bonds for big
wealthy concerns and protecting indus
tries with high tariff, the state should
invest some of its money in an effort
to induce more young people to get
married. And any way the price of
the necessary papers should not be
hilxed upon them when they want to
get married.-Lawrence Gazette.
STILL MOVING.
Four states have submitted the ini-
tiative and referendum to vote of the
people this year. They are Texas,
Minnesota, Michigan and North Da-
kota. Seventeen states now have II.
The proposition never has been de-
feated. In ten years, two-thirds or
three-fourths of the states will have
the initiative and referendum, and
then the Peoples Power league will
begin submitting initiative PROPOSE
tiCns to the people of all those states
looking to the amendment by popu-
lar vote of the constitution of the
United States.
The constitution of the fathers has
been amended within two years so
that political power has passed from
the few in the legislatures to the many
amendment giving the people the
right to name their United States SEN
ator. The constitution has been
amended so that the taxes of the coun-
try may be imposed upon the few in
stead of upon the many.
If the many, through the direct
eolction of senators, can govern the
few, and by reason Of the income tax
amendment may tax the few, the fun
of the next generation is going to be
found in belonging to the many and
not TO the few.
Perhaps this is the reason why so
many smart men are lining.
poria Gazette.
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California has another ground of
complaint against the Japanese. A
Japanese press note states that 1000
boxes of navel oranges grown in Japan
were exported the past winter to the
United States. japanese navel oranges
have recently been exported in consid-
erabIe quantities to Australia. where,
on account of their cheapness. they
have successfully competed with the
California navel oranges for that mar
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

The announcement is made that the
government considers the Panama rail-
road capable of sufficient usefulness to
Justify its continuance after the canal
is opened. This is not surprising to
anyone who has studied the situation
there. In case of war the railroad
could advantageously be used to trans
fer troops and ammunition and, if the
canal got into trouble. there would still
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25
From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.

Miss Pensy Tibbitts says she has
had nine offers of marriage. but is
waitin' until she finds a feller that
her mother thinks is good enough for
her. But when she does find this feller
he probably won't ask her.
Widow Higgins reports that the
weather has been so cold that every
egg her hens have laid recently has
been frozen when she found it in the
nest. She says she amt sure whether
the eggs were frozen before they was
laid or not and maybe she has got a
breed of cold storage hens.
Cy Hilliker and Hod Peters traded
watches in William Tibbitts' store
the other day. Hod thinks he got
little the best of Cy in the swap, be-
kuz the watch he got sometimes runs
as long as an hour at a time, whereas
the watch Hod traded to Cy won't go
at all unless you shake it and tunk it
on something good and hard and then
only for a minute or two. Neither
watch is a very reliable timepiece as
you might say.
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State JournaI
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
Of fen cents a week or thirty cents
a month Cby mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the state journal VIII De
TO you like daily letter from nome.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25
SAYS UNCLE CIV

If you believe you have been sent
to regenerate the world. you had bet
ter remember that you've got to use
yourself as a sample. That's where
most reformers fall down. Enough
Vaporous wisdom goes to waste every
day at the corner groceries of the vii
lagos to right all human wrongs. The
trouble is that no one has faith in it
because the purveyors of the pan
aceaS are wearing patched overalls
and borrowing their chewing tobacco.
It's pretty hard. nowadays, to muster
faith in a man who is more or less of
a public charge.
We say a good deal about the dis
position of the general run of folks
to toady to men who have money or
power or fame. Those of us who have
not are very likely to waste a good
deal of time denouncing our neigh
bors who listen delightedly to the
croak of the biggest frog in the pud-
die, but who have no time to consider
our own ideas.
The bald, brutal fact of the matter
is that while we may be an hundred
times wiser and more altruiStic than
our money gathering acquaintances,
we haven't done anything to merit
public confidence. Generally speak
ing, the whole world is from Mis-
souri,. 1t demands that it be shown
and in this attitude it is eminently cor
rect. Most of US have been so often
misled in one way or another that we
want to see the goods before we
evince interest. The big fellow has the
goods. We have no more right to ex-
pect to have our opinions considered
when we have no concrete results to
show for them than we have to eX-
pect men to extend us financial cred
it when our bank accounts are thin
and our earning capacities in grave
question.
The first thing your neighbor wants
to know when you give him advice is
whether you have followed that ad-
vice and what it has done for you.
Ordinarily the beggar isn't competent
to point out the flaws in the manage
ment of the City National and the
crackerboX whittier usually isn't in
formed as to details of modern indus
trial management.
The physicians first duty is to look
after his own health. The reform
er's prime obligation is to make him
self shining light. The uplifter
must have placed himself upon
high place. 1t little avails the vicious
to preach virtue nor the ragged to
point the way to prosperity. Their
preaching may be perfectly good. but
it isn't backed by practice and is
therefore nnconvincing. All the world
is from Missouri.-(Copyrig 1913,
by the Mcclure zNewspa per Syndicate.)
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be the railroad. 1t takes only about
three hours to cross the isthmus by
rail 90 to IL by canaD and there is
likely to be something for the cars
to do at all times
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

1t is proposed to stop the manufac-
ture of whisky by constitutional
amendment but to leave wine making
untouched. A man can get as drunk on
wine as he can on whisky and it lasts
much longer.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

If the American Medical association
succeeds in suppressing the fee-split-
ting practice. says the Washington
Post. many a grave case of appen-
dicitis will hereafter be diagnosed as
rolaiu collie
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

A New Jersey judge sentenced 81
4. w. w. members to hard labor for
three months and then suspended the
sentence. presumably as "cruel and
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

President Wilson continues to lay out
work for congress to do. Judged by
the progress already made, 1t will re-
main in continuous session until Christ
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

Count Zeppelin says he is pledged
not to build airships for any country
but Germany. The other countries
ought to be glad of that.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

Elder-'If you believe that everything
that takes place is foreordained, why did
YOU wallop the man you caught stealing
your wood? % Deacon-"Because / couldn't
help il. 1 felt that it was foreordained
that should wallop him.'-Boston Trans
script.
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How Conservation Paws.

Other states may be at their wits end
to raise as much money a stheir Iegis-
latures want to spend, but not Minne-
sofa. Its constitution permits loans
from the state treasury in municipali-
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

No wonder the police in their
warm buttoned-up uniform are
foremost in finding fault with Sep
terber Morn"
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

If DR.. Stuck did not find DR.. Cooks
brass tube on top of Mount Mckinley
will it prove that he did not get there
or that Cook did not?
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

A school of diplomacy is to be es-
fablished in Washington. What's the
matter? Are editors becoming scarce
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

Col. Roosevelt has the reputation o
being a fighting man but when an edi
tor libeled him he resorted to arbi
fration.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

The weather business must be good
Medicine Hat in 1910 had only 4003 in
habitants: today it has $1,000 and it is
about to construct street railway nine
long
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

If 1t will help you get through the
summer any better, remember that the
scientists say the sun will cool off en-
firely in 90 900. 900 years.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

A youth stole away from the Chicago
hospital just before he was to nave MS
kleptomania bump cut out
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

There's one mighty good thing
About the hot and sticky season: You
never hear anything about doing your
Christmas shopping early.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

John Armstrong ChaIoner offers
volume OF poems as proof that he is
fitted to handle a $1,500,0O0 estate
Anyway, poetry, as a habit. isn't half
as bad as drinking.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

Boss Barnes of New York says the
direct primary will prove failure.
Probably it will, so far as he is con-
cerned
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

On his way to Argentina the colonel,
= of course, will stop in Brazil where
the nuts come from"
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

Sweet are the uses Of the basebaIl
adversely to communities whose teams
profit thereby.
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ON TIE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
Strange Happenings.
By ROY K. MoULTON.

President of Hayti died a natural death.
Foreign count found in. New York with
800 on his person.
Cincinnati actress refuses to tell report
ers of diamond robbery.
Vice president has had his name in the
paper every day this week.
Chicago man arrested for running his
automobile too slowly.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-06-25

She-"George, dear, here's a scientist
who says the earth is wabbling on its axis.
What do you suppose they can do about
II! George, ansently-"Open up the
power. 1ubricate the bearings. and tighten
the wheel cap.'-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.