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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
TRAVELLING BY BOOK.

There has been story told of a GER
tain artist who, finding himself unable
to go away one summer for any sort
of change. bought a French Baedeker
of New York, and proceeded to see"
his native town from a Frenchman's
point of view, writes a contributor to
The Point of View in the August
Scribner. The incident, vouched for as
authentic, is certainly suggestive. The
average American, fleeing to Europe.
and often knowing less of his own
country than of Egypt or India, has
never been able to repel successfully
the attack of the foreigner who inward
ly attributes the small account which
the American tourist appears to make
of America as a place of travel to a
form of colonialism, a confession of
provinciality. nut the foreigner is by
no means always right. The American
tourist goes to Europe primarily be
cause Europe means so great a change;
| and travelling in his own country does
not mean a change in any radical
sense, but only repetition of familiar
impressions. A native of almost any
| European country can, within two or
| three hours. plunge his brain into the
refreshing currents OF a new environ
, ment. a different speech, a moving
panorama of faces that have different
expression. The American must travel
far to change the physiognomy of his
surroundings. But now scientists
| explaining a fact which people have
always acted on without knowing that
| they knew it-tell us that the brain
wearies and sickens. becomes actually
| attacked by sort of poison of IA
| tigue, if it is forced for too long at g
| time into contact with the same things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
AXHAWKER JOTS

Editor Osterhold, of the Holton Sig
nal, puts it that kansas is suffering
from an epidemic of dry thunder
storms"
1t begins to look to the Holton Sig
nal as If it would be necessary to in
VeSttgate the weather man under the
provisions of the blue sky law.
Glen Elder man drank six coca
colas, three lemOnades, two ice cream
sodas and four bottles of pop the other
day, and that evening he told his wife
he had no idea what made him feel
SO tough.
And why should not horse have
shorter day? asks the Lawrence
Journal-world. Why should men
have eight hour days and horses no
hours at all? A man will work a
horse at hard work all day and hitch
him up at night and drive somewhere
Not all people do this, of course, but
too many. Why should not horses
have hours the same as people?
Two nicely dressed women stood on
the corner of Main and Central Sat
urday afternoon waiting while a little
girl brought three ice cream cones for
the crowd. relates the FL Dorado Re
publican. All the way up the block
from the confectionery where she
bought the cones the little girl kept
licking off the ice cream that melted
and ooZed from the Sides But the
women didn't see her and they ate the
cones with relish.
An interesting dissertation on school
seats, by Adam Croaker of the Holton
Recorder: A doctor over east has
found that the modern average school
seat is all wrong in construction and
calculated to give boys and girls curya-
ture of the spine. make them fiat chest
ed, hump shOuldered, cross-eyed and
to wreck their physical makeup GEN
orally. 1 am not a scientist and know
next to nothing on the subject of fit
ting school seats to the theories OF
modern laws of health, but I have a
pretty we'll defined idea that the mod
ern school seat is an Improvement over
the bench 1 sat on, when did fall off,
when l was a kid. 1 will never forget
those seats. They were made out of
split saplings, with fiat side up. and
pegs driven into two inch auger holes
for legs. After being used a while
they become as slippery as the old
fashioned hair cloth chairs and set
tees. The bench 1 tried to sit on one
day had been split out of a crooked
sapling, and as a result bowed I'D in
middle and was so high that my feet
reached only about half way to the
floor. In an unguarded moment 1
started to slide, with the result that
1 struck the floor with a dull thud. So
far as 1 remember no scientific man
ever investigated those seats and found
them detrimental to youthful physical
development. L am not sure but would
not be surprised If the effort neces-
Sary to preserve equilibrium and hold
a position on those seats may not have
given exercise to muscles that finally
developed athletes and trapeze per-
formers. However, 1 am thankful to
say no such serious results ever af-
f1icted me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
SAYS UNCLE CAV

MANY good cause is defeated and
damned by the methods of its cham
pions. Most of us are only ABOUT nan
baked anyway and once we get good
live idea with the proper voltage be-
hind it, we're likely to forget that II
took us a long time to tumble to 1t
and expect the world to embrace it
and us-instanter. That isn't the way
of the world and very naturally,
misunderstanding results. Then we are
likely to sulk or become violent. Con-
seouently we are very properly shunn-
ed as undesirable or with equal pro-
priety locked up for safekeeping. In
neither case have we helped the cause
along to any considerable extent. We
have merely made the sane part of the
race wonder what's eating on u.s.
Beside being SOMEWHAT picturesque,
rnartyrdom has great advertising value
and is therefore exceedingly useful, pro-
vidine the public looks at it from the
desired angle. Most people seeking
martyrdom, however, merely succeed in
making themselves ridiculous and
eliciting a call for the police. The aV-
erage person seeking to immediate him
self upon the altar of a great cause in
q spectacular manner deserves to be
run over by a motor truck and then
to get pinched for obstructing traffic.
Usually something very like this hap
pens to him.
IT is only the exceedingly wise or the
exceedingly mad-which is much the
same thing-that know how and when
TO die. The rest of us can only guess
when to do and we can accomplish
more by spending our gray matter
than spilling our blood or getting our
selves arrested for disturbing the
peace.
Most reformers tilt at windmiils. get
their names in the papers, accumulate
for themselves and the public lot of
unnecessary trouble and disappear from
sight. Their causes may not die with
them. for a good cause can Outlive more
blunders than a black cat, but every
time one of these quixotic ffy-by-night
agitators raises his voice and rends his
garments in behalf of a principle, that
principle gets a jolt that precludes it
from appearing III good society for some
time to come.
If you really want to make the world
better, don't make spectacle of
yourself. It's a wise man who knows
how to be his own press agent. Mar
tyrdom is worthless except for pur-
poses of publicity and the press damns
quite as often as it saves.
Fame dies at last and notoriefy
withers over night. Work lives for
ever, although your name be forgotten.
There's no royal road to real greatness
and a great cause gets farther when
it is watered with sweat than it does
though it be deluged with blood
Copyright. 1919 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

and startled gaze whats that?'
The question came sharply. 1t was
the opening strains of the StreleZkl
melody that trembled upon the air
Some one is playing-my record.
How strangei"
Mrs. PeIl looked guiltily at the
windows; but she made no move TO
accompany her guest to the house.
AS though hypnotized by the mysteri-
narrow path, up the porch steps, over
the threshold and out of sight
Cary looked up as the girl entered
alone, wondering, perturbed, but
scarcely prepared for this meeting.
She drew back, flushing and stam-
mering:
"You-you, But how-Mr. Alvord,
how long have you been here?''
Long enough to make up my mind
about very in portant matter. Miss
Moffat." He bowed tremendously,
and stepped toward her, while the So
prano voice trilled, and the violin
walled, and the cello moaned all in
unison. Happy days, Minna-for
us! Let's make up. Now that 1
know you still care for me, I'll go
down on my knees and make any
apology you wish. Forget that
wretched quarrel My jealousy and
your pride nearly broke a pair of
loving hearts. Minna-sweetheart !
Dearest
She had sought feebly to retreat,
to ward off his extended arms; but
the ardor of his glance, the entreaty
of his smile overcame her. The tide
of love rose, and, with a fluttering
breath, half sobbing, half laughter,
she acknowledged her vanquishment.
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
GLOEE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

One great trouble is in knowing what
the law really says.
1t takes more than a Norfolk coat TO
make an old man look young
Some people use an automobile as i'm
moderately as others do liquor.
1t is a good idea to praise people occa-
sIonaliy. whether they deserve it or not
That boy who hates to speak a piece"
at school may. some day become an actor.
You are edging up in years by the time
you learn that holidays don't amount to
much.
Link Preston no longer hopes for great
er riches than is necessary to provide a
sleeping porch.
How much of a girl is girl and how
much of her is dry goods is not such a
dense mystery these days.
Ihere are not only men willing to be
willing to be reelected.
The o. f. woman who exterminated the
bedJug should join Doc Crumbine ami
swat the frolicsome fly.
Barber shops in country towns frequent
ly need other improvements besides call
ing them tonsorial parlors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
Gambling a Disease

New York. with its board of fnebriety as
a protecting arm for the drunkard may
some day have a similar haven for the
gambler. if an idea suggested by Amer
lean Medicine, is carried out.
Discussing What Is the Nature of the
Mania for Gambling?" the doctor-editor
says:
"A gambler is as dangerous to his fam
lily as an alcoholic: more dangerous than
an opium fiend. There seems to be no
remedy for him but a sanitariun-not to
call 1t an asylum-where long-enrorced
abstinence from his vice may induce new
habits and bring about a saner outlook
on life We are not often called upon to
treat gambler, at least not for his gam
bling propensitfes. but a time may come
when the victims Of such habits will be
brought to the alienist.
Actual association with horse card
and roulette fiends is required in order to
realize what a terrible grip their hal
has upon them. 1t is a veritable mono
mania. Only few days successful gam
bling will induce the victim to quit pay
such an extent as to lead him to the be-
lief that his luck will last forever and
that the hours he spends in dull but gain
ful occupation are wasted.
There could be no more suitable sub
ject for, judicious psychological treatment
at the hands of his physician than the
gambler. New York Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

How did we begin to ''ragtime? - For
four years the rag has enthralled
America and for nearly two the bacillus
has infected us. Nowadays we have moth
ing but rag-rag-ragtim everywhere-at
state ceremonies, society functions prom
enade bands, and county fairs.
Yet Irving Berlin, who is responsible
for the craze, is a very quiet unassuming
man, IS years of age. of slim build, with
dark complexion and hair that reveal his
Italian parenthood- All the same. he is
the very incarnation OF 'ragtine'' in con-
versation. He admits that the rhythm and
Tilt of his songs were taken from the ne
groes.
But I must have caught the spirit of
syncopation in popular songs by instinct,
he said. Il can't write note of music
No. I'm not Raging you when I say
that The melodies strike my ears. l tell
my pianist to play them-that's how it's
DONE
This was the way .Alexander's Rag
time Band" Every body's Doing It. and
scores of others came to life.
DIR. Berlin has a fine voice, and is able
to interpret his own songs to performers.
He himself will show US. at the Hippo
drome shortly, how they should be sung
He gave a private entertainments to a
select party at the Savoy hotel, and ar
rived here with sheaf of new rags
which will be given at the Hippodrome.
He is in receipt of the modest sum OF
10000 a year in Toyalties.-London Chron-
icle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An egotistical man makes the. big
gest hit with himself.
- = I.
Out of the mouths of babes also
come disturbing yells.
= i
A contented man seldom has a
place near the top of life's ladder.
i :. i
There is little cheer for any man
over the possibility that conditions
might be worse with him.
j.
You can usually judge a mans idea
of his own importance by the posi-
ton he occupies in a group photo
graph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Be generous-but never give your
friends away.
Any girl would rather be loved than be
in love.
A stingy man is not popular but he
usually has the price.
Once in a while a bachelor has as many
troubles as a married man.
The self-made man should never forget
to make himself agreeable.
The mosquito probably mistakes the
slaps made at him for applause.
Blood will tell and time will tell-but a
woman usually beats them to 1t.
Inject common sense into love affair
and it will soon cease to be interesting.
me Inc chap VINO Is born with slVee
family plate
When you have occasion to fight, re-
member that the other fellow is proba bly,
scarced as badly as you are.
Life is not always one grand, sweet
song for the man who is married to a
woman who thinks she can sing.
Extravagance is to take ones wife for a
joy de in hired automobile instead OF
patronizing the street car company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

One way to avoid getting hot un-
der the collar is to quit wearing col
lars.
Our idea of zero in ambitions is
the ambition to become president OF
Mexico.
Sometimes the evidence in the case
has but little to do with the verdict.
There are still a few who hold this
to be a free country.
Keeping a string of polo ponies has
been considered an expensive fad, but
Nat Goodwin has one that beats it as
a bumper of the bankroll.
They got MulhalPs goat, but hold
ing a congressional investigation is
like fishing; the biggest ones get
away.
Some local scientists are of the
opinion that the phenomenon OF
Thursday afternoon was H2O, an ele-
ment we'll known to the ancients, and
quite common in this locality about
A. D. 1908.
The canning of Sulzer by Tammany
was to be expected. Other employees
have tried working against the inter-
ests of their employers with the same
result.
However, SulZer was on the Jop
long enough to have a large COLLECTION
of half-tones made of his faVorlte
pose-wtih one mitt thrust into the
bosom of his Prince Albert. None of
the actual photographs show him
with his hand too close to another S
inside pocket; that is merely word
picture.
Hon. Bryan suggests an election IN
Mexico to determine ownership OF the
job, but denies them the rights OF
shipping in arms and ammunltlon.
How does he expect them to hold an
election if they can't get the tools?
Optimism is that peculiar human
quality which induces man TO ran
for the same vacation literature each
year.
If You Say 1t Right Fast.
Lind is said to be a diplomat who
wears a padded glove on his one mitt
Maybe the administration sent him
to see the so-called president because
they were confident Lind would not
Huerta's feelings.
If YOU find unknown deceased
hanging on a telephone pole and re-
mains horribly mutilated, chances are
he was some dub doctor VINO pre-
scribed sun baths.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
WHAT THEY CALL 1T.

WHAT THEY CALL 1T.
Grandma says we're right in style,
A-Sittins in our automobile"
Grandpa says we're fit to kill,
A-ridfn' in our AUTOMOBILE"
Ma. she says we ought to feel
Grateful fer our ''automo-beel."
Pa says there amt no other man
Kin run an auto like he can.
Auntie breaches near and far
Bout our lovely touring car"
Uncle Bill says he amt seen
Nowhere such a good machine.
Brother Jim, he keeps a-braggin'
Bout the speed of our new wagon.
But, oh, it sounds so grand and noble
When Sister Sue says automobile"
New Orleans Picayune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

[From the Philadelphia Record
Small talk often results in big scandals.
A woman usually admires a man who
admires her
No, Maude, dear: plumbers are not es-
pecially addicted to pipe dreams
Every girl has a warm place in her
heart for the ice cream man these days.
A man may be good as his word. be-
cause his word ism good for anything.
People who only believe half they hear
may hear twice as much as other people.
A birthday present is a very nice thing
to receive, but most old maids prefer
birthdays absent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

Arkansas has had four governors
since the first of the year. 1t might
have had five If the remaining citizen
hadn't refused to give up his sum-
merS fishing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

Not content with having jumped
over the moon, the COW is after fur
Their altitude records Choice cuts of
beef are likely to sell at so cents a
pound this winter. In other words,
most people and choice cuts of beef
will become absolute strangers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

There is no need for the English
suffragettes TO go broke. a picture
of Mrs. Pankhurst in the act of max
ing jelly and putting up preserves
would prove to be one of the best
sellers ever put on the market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

THAT old idea of using the terms port
and 'starboard' on ships it about obso
lete-" Yes" replied Farmer Corntossel,
but don't think they gave us agricul-
turists proper recognition. In pointing
out the right and left sides of a ship they
like gee and 'haw.' "-Washiugtou Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16
KANSAS COlHAENT
EXECUTION OF A BOY.


The execution of Odus Davidson. -
year-old boy at Harrison, Ark. Monday
morning at II O'Clock for the alleged XIII
ing of Ella Barham on November a, was
a shocking affair. The poor boy tainted
an hour before he was led to the scanolo
from which he was plunged into eternity.
Just think of it, hanging mere boy when
mature, deep-dyed criminals are being
turned out of the penal institutions dally
by judges who go back OF the lures ,,
Why, in Kansas City not month ago
man of mature years who had deliberate
ly murdered two women was paroled ana
thus escaped a life sentence. The David
son boy protested innocence to the last,
J and since he was convicted on circum-
stantial evidence we are inclined to take
the view that his execution was, to say
the least, too drastic punishment for
one so young. There is another peculiar
phase to the matter. The Davidson boy
father was for many years justice OF
the peace at Harrison, if we remember
right, and after his son was arrested ana
! charged with the crime the sentiment was
so strong in the community that the
father was ordered to leave the state un-
der the penalty of violence. He is an olo
man. He sold his possessions, purchases
a type of the early day schooner ana ne
and his wife departed for Oklahoma rms
is the first case to come under our op-
servation wherein the ''sins" OF the son
were visited so severely upon the father:
1t is complete reversal OF the oiphcaI
Injunction which says the sins or the
father shall be visited upon his children.
No doubt the lad was a menace to society,
but we believe the day is approaching
when such CHASTITY punishment VIII DC
supplanted by less barbaric methods
Coffeyville journal.
TURNING ON THE LIGHT.
When a dark corner becomes unsavory
! the city is asked to install a light. 1t Is
| light that drives out evil and gives good
| a chance Publicity is light and publicity
/ is the greatest cure for disease and EVIL IN
| the world. If publicity is given to any
thing wrong no matter what 1t lS that
thing is remedied. 1t is by covering up
| things that evil results. The broadest
| publicity is the best possible cure for evils
| in society and wrongs in government.
| Publicity is just turning on the light. The
| same process you see by installing "A
| strong light in a dark corner. The world
| maintains a great police force, yet 1t is
| powerless without the light Only the
daylight permits the police to. ferret out
| crimes and punish offenders. If there was
no light, if the dark corners were not
| Illuminated it would mean an intolerable
world. Sometimes the policeman just car
ries a little searchlight in his hand The
| turning of it on enables him to see what
| is going on and puts him in control
| Whenever you hear of wrong just see
! that.a light is turned on. be 1t in a street
| corner, public highway, or In the ordi-
nary affairs of life Publicity is the best
medicine that society can take.-Law-
| renee Journal-World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

One Southern woman has been dis
covered who sleeps all day that she
may nag her husband at night. Here
is a pointer for the English suffra
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

More evidence that there is moth
ing in a name. A New Jersey Trust
company has had it's doors closed be-
cause of big shortage in its funds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

Colonel Mulhall is suffering from a
nervous breakdown. But the attack
is probably not nearly so severe as
that which some of his testimony has
produced on few of the gentlemen in
congressional circles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

What is said to be the most ancient
fossil discovered in this country has
just been found in Colorado. But how
will this discovery help to reduce the
cost of living or accomplish anything
else worth while?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

As the days grow shorter, so Is tn'
man whose wife and daughters are
a summer resort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

Nor is there anything Of the mean
man in Nat Goodwin. He says he'll
be pleased to bow to any of his for
1ner wives who may cross his path.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

Inasmuch as the examination of
Colonel Mulhall by the lobby inves-
tigators of congress is likely to con-
tinue until the end of his days, he
won't even have a chance to go on
the vaudeville stage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

And the eugenics movement, if sue
cessful. will bring about one result
anyway. 1t will add a doctors fee to
the price of the marriage license.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

a dispatch says that Texas has
fined the Standard Oil company
100000. Nothing is said, however,
sbout its collection.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

Doubtless when the time comes,
Secretary Bryan will deal very Sc
verely with Huerta and Castro. They
are keeping him from his lecture en-
EaEementS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-16

Clip Castro is called a peon. Blu
he has been called so many othel
things that probably he won't minC
1t much,