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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
EVENING CH<T
Half Health.
RY RuTa. CAMERON.

Hair Health.
wonder If anything in the world spoils
more happiness and mars more. efficiency
than the miserable condition of half health
in which so many people drag through
their existence, and never know what
living really is.
The man who is out-and-out sick usual
ly realizes his condition and tries to i'm
prove it.
But the man or woman who is neither
sick nor we'll who is continually in that
miserable half way condition which 7 call
half health, seldom tries to improve.
He can get along somehow, he can earn
his living and eat his meals and take
his pleasures somehow or other. and since
he has never known or has forgotten the
keenness, the vitality, the power, the
zest, which real health can put into life,
he is sluggishly content to live in half
half the joy of labor and half the relish
of pleasure, to so impair his own eff
cheney that he can do but half his rightful
share of the worlds work, and, worst of
all, to pass the miserable heritage of
half health to his children.
Have you good health-vigorous, vital,
Or have you half health-miserable,
nervous, inefficient, sick-every-now-and-
then, Observation-Disclosures half health?
Are you getting the most out of your
life or only small fraction of its posi-
bilities?
we shall pass this way but once and
of life, here and now. Why not make
resolution today that you will be done
with half health forever, that you will
start right now to win real health for
yourself and get the most possible out
of life?
certain well known woman, who con-
ducts classes IN craftsmanship ali over the
country, always talks to her pupils first
of all about their diet, the need for daily
exercise and the amount OF sleep needIul,
etc. She considers this an important part
of a course in craftsmanship because, as
she tells her pupils, good health is duty
an employee owes his employer.
How much more do we owe than good
health to ourselves, to those who have
to live with us and to those VINO are
or lack of it.
The duty of health is something which
is seldom spoken Of Nevertheless II IS
one of the most urgent and vital duties
in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

Pride may go before a faIl-even when
you fall in love.
The less a man says the more guessing
his wife has to do.
Some of US hand out advice only when
we have an ak to grind.
Anyway. the rolling stone never was in
terested in the moss trust.
It's enough to discourage temperance
advocates when money gets tight
But you can't judge mans true worth
by the amount of insurance he carries
1t takes man who doesn't have to live
the simple life to see the beauties of 1t.
When a woman can arrive at satisfac-
tory conclusions without expressing them,
that is wisdom
Nine tailor are needed to make man,
but there are lots of chaps whose credit
isn't good with one.
The tweiteh century woman's crown
ing glory seems to be puffs, bra1dS,
switches. pompadours, cluster curls, rats
and so forth.
A pessimist is man who thinks that
when he gets to heaven 1t will be a waste
of time for him to look around for his
earthly neighbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
by TIE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

dter thinking it over for a week,
we reacn the conclusion that the point
10 hon. j. London's biography is that.
10 quarry as a champion local and
long distance booze fighter, one must
go INTO training at an early age.
And further, that he set record
Nhlch no ordinary, garden variety of
ting pink gorillas and freckIed dodos
mixed with white logic
AS we understand it. the Bulls favor
harmony, but want it cooked after
their own recipe and served at their
own table.
mere seems to be a general suspi-
clon that the persons who are instru-
mental in bringing suit against Major
lronJaW, want the Majors goat more
than they want the $3.50 in contro-
verSy.
1t appears that one may get some
thing beside squirrel whisky in East
Atch1son, and that the other COM
sas. According to reports, certain
East Atchisonese gents started a
kansan toward the dry district at
such speed that he missed the bridge.
In fact, he went over after H. SO4,
but they made him take H. o.
A chill day after a warm spell re-
minds us that ours are abbreviated, so
we refer to them as "und'rw'r."
Observing that 80 million sticks of
chewing gum are f1etcherized yearly in
TINS country-about one-third stick
per cap1ta-per annum, we have no
holIer coming. We get just about our
share of the output.
The only trouble is that some school
girls get more than their share, hence
the prevalent noise which reminds
one or a horse eating watermelon.
Gail Borden's daughter has fitted
again. Her parent might try canning
her and then hiding all the canopen-
erS.
Rabbit serum is the latest thing on
the serum menu 1t appears that
serum may be made of anything that
will make soup.
While the poor of other nations are
crying for bread, the poor of this land
are merely hollering for T-bone steak.
1t is hard matter to get things just
right. When it rains hard enough to
drown the chinch bugs, it puts the
corn on the fritz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
FROM OTHER PENS
NO SIGNS OF FEAR

Business is most accommodating
institution. In spite of all the thou
sands of words used in congress by Re-
publicans and Moose to scare the
country into opposition to the pending
tariff bill business refuses even to
raise an ear. 1t goes brisAly along,
attending to the tasks in hand, COM
pletely undaunted by what is going on
in the house of representatives
The fact is, of course, that business
is no more fearful now than it was be-
fore election that anything will be done
by the administration to injure legi-
innate industry. Opponents of Mr.. Will
son used the moth-eaten bogy of free
trade then in an effort to head off
the inevitable; they are doing the same
thing at Washington now.
So far as tariff legislation is con-
cerned matters are developing admir-
ably. Business knows 1T is not inn
periled. Those engaged in the familiar
practice of waving red flags for politi-
cal effect will have their trouble for
their pains.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

the temple of Amenemhat I, at Lisht,
many specimentS of early Egyptian OBJ
jects have been gathered for the Metro
politan Museum.
The pyramid field is located near the
verge or the desert, some % miles soulh,
ward from Cairo, and there may be found
the site of the early pyramid of Amenem-
hat 1, and also of his son, Senusert 1, first
and second rulers of the twelfth dynasty.
the northern pyramid that of Amenemhat
I. was cleared. and the remains of the
temple were revealed. 1t was then dis
covered that the pyramid itself was con-
structed largely of block stone from
earlier structures. Temple reliefs were
founi buried in the pyramid core.-New
York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
Once Revolutionary.

The latest instances of a general en-
forcement of laws concerning dress
occurred at the time of the French
revolution, when some rulers of Ger
man states forbade their subjects to
wear trousers, these being held to indi-
cate revolutionary opinions The cleo
tor of Hesse-Cassel, besides prohibit
ing the obnoxious garments, had the
convicts employed on road sweeping
dressed in trousers, so as ii inspire dis
gust for sansculotte fashions. No gem
eral prohibition OF this kind was issued
in Prussia, but until 1898 all Prussian
officials were restricted to knee
breeches for their neither garments
Trousers were held to be "unbecomine
TO the dignity and gravity of any hold
er of an official position. '-I,ondon
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

that he married about a year ago. So
that is what has allied your
Ignoring the remark, Clifford continued.
But where do the flowers come from? I
have it. Thanks, old man.
And off he darted, not waiting for an
answer. If Beck had followed him, he
would have heard him saying inco-
herently:
-'Deauchamp-her fathers store-loves
flowers-brought 'em herself. Gee, the
fields clear
And subsequent events proved that it
was.-(Copyright. 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

Railway managers in Missouri will
make use of the referendum in an eff
fort to set aside the ''Full-Crew'' law
passed by the last legislature. The
fact marks an epoch in the matter of
railway legislation, since it is the first
time that the roads have ever had a
chance to appeal directly to the peo-
pie. When the general public under
stands a question it is disposed to be
fair. 1t is up to the railroads to en-
tighten it, if need be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

II Mr.. Underwood can guarantee
that when the price of wheat goes
down the price of flour will go down
with the same rapidity with which the
price of flour now goes up when the
price Of wheat goes up, says the St.
Louis Republic, his tariff will score
one of its greatest triumphs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

The man who escaped army service
by getting himself smuggled out of
Austria Hungary in a bull fiddle is pro-
badly saving the bass drum for anoth-
er hour of need.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
KANSAS COMMENT
A FEW SUPPOSES.

Suppose the California legislature under
the Influence of the bitter and nearly uni
versal anti-Japanese feeling which seems
to pervade the state, should pass law
that clearly contraveneS some provision in
the treaty between the United States and
Japan. Suppose a test case should De
brought and the supreme court should de-
clare that the law violates the treaty ana
therefore, is null and void. Suppose that
under the Roosevelt-Johnson Progressive
system of popular government this court
decision should be submitted to the people
to determine whether it should stand or
not. And suppose that the people should
vote to overrule the decision. linen what
would happen?
OF course this is all a matter of sup
posing" But is there a single supposition
suggested that might not easily come to
pass under the laws of California. They
have the initiative in that state, and one
reason given by members of the legis-
lature for the drastic legislation now
pending in that body is that if the legis-
lature does not pass the law the people
will. They have the recall of judicial de-
cisions there We believe. At least they
troll the state have the courage of their
convictions. Is it not perfectly certain
that the same anti-Jap feeling which
forces hostile legislation over the protest
of the national administration, would
override the decision of any court which
might attempt to annul such legislationI
And what would happen then? Would not
California be in the same attitude of
defiance to the federal authority that
South Carolina was when she passed the
ordinance of 1882? And would
Woodrow Wilson repeat the Andrew
Jackson role and send word to Governor
Johnson that he would hang him high as
Haman If he didn't bout face pretty
quick?
In all seriousness would it be less than
madness for any state to adopt a system
of government which under a contingency
that might easily occur would put the
state in an attitude of rebellion against
the national authority?-Iola Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

A Baltimore belle and heiress has
married a handsome Boston waiter and
no headline writer has yet called it
the romance of the oriole and the bean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

How can Mr.. Bryan expect the world
to become enthusiastic over his peace
plans so long as he doesn't include the
English suffragists in them?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

Japan may decline to help pay the
fiddler at California subscription party
which she has invited the world to at
tend in 1915.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
FULL, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is a member OF the
xssoctated Press and receives the full Day
eelegraph report of that great news ~
Ganizatfon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puf-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

Somebody cruelty suggests that all
the United States consuls be subjected
to a mental test. Many of them, since
last March, seem to have forgotten
what their politics is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

A California senator wants to divide
the state and make two of 1t. The
public generally will be disposed to re-
gard one of the kind as enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

The dimple in the chin of the boy
baby looks cute now, but it is going to
make trouble for him when he becomes
old enough to use a razor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

California senators should endeavor
to insert a clause in the tariff bill,
protect their home farmers against
Japanese competition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

There is only one man in Kan
sas who wears a plug hat gracefully"
says Walt Mason, land there should
be statue of him in Washington"
Everybody can have three guesses on
who he is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

Where is the old fashioned drug
store that used to sell drugs, inquiries
the Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

In far-off Albania participation in g
provisional government seems to be as
extra hazardous as in nearby Mexico
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

The Norwegian Storthing has voted
TO Captain Roald Amundsen, the dis
coverer of the South pole, life an
nuity of $3.50. DR.. Cook did not
wait for a pension. He got his while
the getting was good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

1.-THE life of a policeman is not a
happy one," sang the chorus in the
"Pirates of Penzance.'' The words
seem to be especially applicable to
London since the suffragette move
ment started.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

1t removes a whole lot of romance
from spring when you have to take up
the carpet, beat it and then put it down
again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

The war with the Moros is ended
again. Soon it will be able to COM
pete for honors with the peach crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

The tariff builders have separated the
sheep from the goats. Wool is made
free while the Angora is protected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

That bright red meteoric body far
above the Railway Exchange building,
says the st. Louis Republic, is the st.
Louis Cardinals. Meaning, of course,
that they are UP in the air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
THE INDUSTRIALIsT.

If the plan of the board of administra-
ton of the state educational institutions
to centralize the publicity departments of
the various schools means the discontin-
great deal of regret throughout the state.
The Industrialist, published at the State
college papers in that 1t is always filled
with news and information that is of in
terest to a large per cent of the popula-
ton of the state. During the last few
years, 1t has been particularly interesting
from the readers standpoint and particu-
larly valuable to the state as a dissent
nator of information on subjects in which
the farmers, housewives and other citi-
zens are vitality interested. Readers have
come to look forward to the weekly visit
of the Industrialist and there are many
hoping that the Encouragement will not
terminate the papers usefulness.-Salina
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

A Paris bandit says that the gull
lotine does not discourage crime. Then
why does he mention it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

The medical fraternity appears to
object to DR.. Friedman on the ground
that he did not bring along his Eski-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

He who fights and runs away may
live to fight another day.'-Nicholas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
Caught on the Fly.

A federal jury has held the wallpaper
trust guiltless of wrong doing. But
there are those who will always believe
that some of it's paper is a crime.
Paris dresmakers say skirts will be
tighter. Not unless they are painted
on.
One way to get even with the food
trust is to stop eating. This Is one of
the very poorest ways.
There is said to be in New York a
young man who possesses the sixth
sense. New York is the place to use
it all right
German aviators are on strike In
aviation evidently everything goes up
excepting wages.
Now they say that Buffalo Bill wears
a wig, but nobody has the hardihood to
start a story to the effect that Col.
Roosevelt has false teeth.
Lincoln split rails, but the modern
statesman split hairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

Il explained to George when he pro-
posed that of course, he could not expect
me to cook. What did he say?'' THAT
he only expected me to try."-Buffalo Ex-
press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
Answer to Correspondents.

Josephine We would like to assist you,
Jo but really we haven't time just now to
enter your crusade to have the color of
the 2-cent postage stamps changed from
red to pink. You say the red ones offend
the eye, and agree with you, espe
cially when they are attached to the up
per right hand corner of envelopes con-
tanning bills. We are getting So that we
We wish you much success and if you can
succeed in doing away with postage
stamps altogether it will be long step
in the right direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
The Weather for 1918.

Ali the other prophets having taken
a crack at the weather representations
for 1913 we venture to present those of
Prof. Goosebone, our own personal
prophet who prognosticates exclusively
for this column of uplift. Prof Goose
bone knows as much about 1t as do the
parties who make the a1manacsi Fol-
lowing are his predictions:
The weather of February will be
variable. Some days it will be cold and
other days not quite so cold or colder,
as the case may be. A safe and sane
Washington birthday is expected.
It will be quite windy IN March.
There will be some rain IN April.
In May there may be some rain and
considerable buck beer, which Is more
to the point.
The weather in June WIFI be just as
disagreeable as possible as there will be
several weddings during the month.
July and August will according to
all signs, be some warmer than Jan
uary. There will be very little snow
during these months.
September and October will be pleas
anter than the same months last year
because there will be no presidential
campaign in progress
The weather for November and De-
cember will be about as usual and per-
haps a little more so.
Farmers and undertakers and others
who depend a great deal upon the
weather for a livelihood can rely upon
this prediction absolutely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
ON THE SPUR
OF TIE MOMENT
The Village Sage.
By ROY K. MoULTON.

The Village Sage.
Old Archibald Todd was the village
You couldn't fool him on a woman's
age.
There wasn't a thing in the whole
broad land
That Archibald didn't understand.
And no man above or below the sod
Ever knew so much as Archibald
Todd.
There wasn't a prize fight e'er pulled
off
That wasn't a cinch for this old toff.
He'd pick out a winner every time
In an off hand way that was quite
sublime.
The only thing that would spoil his
fun
Was the fact that the wrong man al
ways won.
The weather was ever his strong
forte.
He always 'scooped" Uncle Sans re-
port.
When his left hind leg would acquire
pain
He would prophesy a good two days
rain.
By the words of wisdom from Arch
les mouth.
The whole town knew there would be
a drouth.
Old Archibald lived long in the land
And ruled the country with tireless
hand.
The folks all listened to his advice,
For it was really beyond all price,
For they were sure when advice he'd
spring.
They could safely bank on the oppo-
site thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.

Constable Ezra Hand says that the
Identification of the Teller that stole
the star off'n his uniform while he
was patrolin' his beat the other eve
ming is knowed and he had better re-
turn same and avoid trouble. The con-
stable says he is not naming no names
but the one-eyed galoot that runs the
harness shoO next door to the huttei
is the culprit that done the deed.
A good many women are supporting
their husbands in the drama, but
good many more are supporting 'em
in the soapsuds.
Uncle Ezra Harlsins says the put
terin'est job he knows of Is bringin'
up a turkey. When a young turkey
gets its feet wet, 1t dies and a young
turkey amt happy unless 1t is paddlin'
in a mud puddle. There is almost as
much human nature in turkeys as there
is in some folks.
There amt much use in trying to
make a silk purse out'n pigs ear,
but there is just as much use in that
as there is in tryin' to make a great
statesman out'n a peanut politician.
Elmer Jones and Miss Amy Pringle
was out cutterin' last Monday eve
ming for the first time this season and
the livery stable which has been In
statue quo for some time expects to
do some business from now on until the
slippin' gets bald-headed In spots.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
Personal.

A-rs. r. G.-You ask us what to name
the baby. Oh, it doesn't make much diff
ference. We know a dockwalIoper over at
Muskegon by the name of Percival and a
poet by the name of Bushrod. 1t may be
well to strike a happy medium and name
him John. Then he will fit in anywhere.
Give him a fancy middle name like
Cuthbert or Algernon so he can use it in
case he makes good and goes into society.
H. Cuthbert Jones sounds better than
Hank Jones and T. Algernon Witherspoon
looks mighty nice on an engraved calling
card.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-25

There is. discussion as to the
wisdom of Secretary William j.
Bryan's announcement that he is
to engage in lecture tour this
summer, to supplement his income
and his claim that the salary Of
$l2,0 as secretary Of state is in
adequate without this help. Re-
publican papers are filled with
twaddle against Bryan over this
statement. and claims that he
should be at his desk. This oppo-
sition seems silly 10 us. as this is
the season forpublic men to take
a brief vacation, and if Secretary
Bryan wants to use his vacation
time this way it is nobody's bnsi-
ness.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-25

The Parma Herald of July 18th
says: DIR. j. w. Easter. of Boise,
stopped off between trains Monday
to look after his property here, af-
ter which he continued his trip to
Weiser, where he joined his wife.
After few days visit there they
will go to Long Beach for the
summer for the benefit Of Mrs.
Casters health.