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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
AYHAWKER JOTS

Mankato claims a widow who has
a million dollar shape and $4,000
walk.
The Masons at Clay Center have
built new temple at cost approx
mating $4,000.
The CORTLAND bank which failed re-
Gently is said to have been carrying
$4,000 worth of automobile paper.
The Clay Center Dispatch hears
that "Ironjaw'' Brown will enter the
race against Bristow for the United
States senate.
If the present Kansas legislature
could stay in session another week,
says the Leavenworth Post, Kansas
would have a set of laws which would
make it impossible for a man to live
his ordinary life for one whole day
without breaking a dozen laws.
Every rose has its thorn item
from the Ottawa Herald: There is
one drawback to the coming of spring.
There are always a lot of panhandlers
from Kansas City to drop in on Otta-
wa to beg on the sunny street corners
whenever the robins begin to chirp.
1t is now thirty-two years since we
filled our last car of coal in a mine
up in Iowa, muses. Conner Davies. yet
when business in the printing office
is a bit slack some day that night we
dream we're back in the mines pelt-
ing away with might and main to fill
Tom Struthers would give US a place"
in his pit over at Minersville if things
go wrong with us here? Did you
ever dream you were financially bust
ed? It's worse that a nightmare af-
ter a lodge lunch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

from their wholesale dealer and have
goods SO ordered on his shelves be-
fore noon of the same day; the farmer
or dairy man sends his cream and milk
into the creamery on the early car and
has the empties back home before
night Even though the distance may
be two days drive by team, ne is as
close as his fellow competitors who live
only few miles outside the city.
Neither is it necessary to ice fruit
shipments and other perishable pro-
duce, as they are on the market fresh
within a few hours after loading aboard
the car. In other words, the interur-
ban puts the country people into the
city or places the city at their door,
Where an electric line is extended into
a rural community where land is pro-
ductive, we fine that such lands are
very much enhanced in value, passing
into the hands of small truck farmers.
usually 5-acre to 10-acre tracts, where
they do intensive farming. as well as
raise poultry products. This soon
causes the community to become thick
ly populated. This is not a theory, as
it has actually taken place wherever
worked out in Michigan and other east
ern states.
He cites as one of the main reasons
that there has not been development
in Kansas equal to that in some other
states that about every land and i'm
provement company in the Gulf Coast
country, as well as the Pacific Coast
country, look to Kansas for their sales
and victims, and in short time their
friends are looked to for Il return
ticket for them. They don't like the
climate, or they have crop failure
from drouth, etc. 1t is always some
thing. and 1 think it high time that
we wake up and realize that there are
as good opportunities, and even better,
right here at home, and I for one IN in
favor of interurbans right here, and
keep our people and their money here
at home. If you will remember, all
the foreign land companies advertise
that said lands are ON the interur-
ban,' and it is a fact that in any 10
cality that the development of any COM
munity depends wholly on the electric
or interurban railway
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

what | was going to have for him to-
night"
Thyrza glanced over the list writ
ten out with directions to the COOK.
A shadOwy smile crossed her face.
go right ahead with your plans,
dear lady she said softly. Il shall
be through my work by o'clock;
then I'll prepare your dinner"
"You!"
Yes, it is not such an elaborate
delighted to do If. They liked my
cooking at home-once."
As Mrs. Wales-Wood said after
ward, she was too much astonished
to speak; but IL Thyrza earle had
offered to paint one of her pictures
credulous. Lester was grinning all
the way home, and pretending that he
had been fasting all day-saving up
for that dinner, and never had he felt
such pangs of hunger before!
Thyrza greeted them with unwont-
ed animation; her face was pink,
and her short locks had taken on a
decided curl. The dinner was sue
cess; it was more than that-it was
wonderful! Every one of Lester
favorite dishes, cooked and served in
a way that surpassed anything he
had ever seen. He wound up his
praises by saying. You have missed
your vocation. Miss earle. You're a
culinary artist
Yes, 1 like to cook-for those who
care"
1T isn't cooking enchant-
menti" cried Lester, waving his hand
over the decorated little table.
An hour later Mrs. Wales-Wood
had slipped out to a neighbours apart
ment; Thyrza looked at her COM
panion shyly.
You didn't know L could be use
full, did you? You seemed so sur
prised. 1 wanted to la1-sfl. You've
no idea how commonpl9 . 1 am. Why,
I'd rather compose zalad than a
versei"
Il know; lots of people think I'm
well. sort of helpless, you know. At
home it was different; but that's
gone, and there's no one to care. l
am a failure az poet, thought; 1
know that now. nd I'm going to stop
trying. I've u ed to act like one and
look like one, but it's no use. Folks
at home said 1 was gifted and
thought if 1 could only make a living,
but-but-
The tremulous lips were hidden as
Thyrza's tear-wet face went sudden
ly down into her hands. In a dazed
sort of way, scarcely knowing what
he was doing, Lester put his arm
round the sobbing girl.
MY dear, my dear, don't cry!"
Il must. L don't know what 1
shall dol"
A sudden, startling light of under
standing flashed upon young Wales
then. A home-Some one to care
that was what this dear girl needed;
yes, that was what he needed, too.
He drew her closer, and bent to
whisper, while her soft curls trailed
across his warming cheeks.
'Thyrza. dear love, you're goin.-
with me-that's what you're going to
ido!'-(Copyright 1913 by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
THE COST OF LIVING.


'1 do not see why folks complain.
Said Jorkins, ''of the price OF meat
For fifty cents pound you get
sirloin steak that can't be beat
For the same money you can buy
A luscious English mutton chop.
Why should you ask for more tnah
that?"-
Yes. Jorkins keeps butcher shop.
THE cost of living amt so high,
Said Jobkins. why should folks Ilno
fault?
For half a dollar you can buy
full three-months' supply OF sait.
just think what people had to pay
Right after our great Civil War!
tell you flour cost money then!
Yes, Jobkins keeps grocery store.
But Jobkins went to buy some meat,
And said that Jorkins was SKIN;
And Jorkins, paying Jobkins BILL
Declared he had been taken IN.
And when the coal man asked Ior pay,
They both set up mighty shout'
And Just as they were feeling worst,
The plumber came and cleaned them
-SomerviIle Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
fFrom the Chicago News.1

lAc OAiCdSO NEWS
The bare idea of getting bald is dis
tasteful.
There are lots of society rabbits posing
lions.
But the notification committee never
meets with a rebuff.
Often, after a man has done his duty, it
refuses to stay done.
Getting married is so easy that most
bachelors are suspicious of it.
Some girls acquire the art of flirting to
save themselves from falling in love.
A man seldom laughs at misfortune
after he gets a personal introduction to it,
If woman's credit is good at a depart
ment store she can be depended upon it
to fill the BILL
Women do not expect men to be wise
all the time, and there are men who do
not expect women to be wise any of tho
time.
1t may be impossible to transform wa
ter into coal oil, but it is a well known
fact that there are stock manipulators
who can transform water into money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
THE "srREEr, SOBER AND SAD.

THE "STREET'' SOBER AND SAD.
Wall street comes to the change OF
administration not so much afraid as
sobered and sad. 1t breads the future
/ less than it dislikes present conditions.
! 1t is not exactly scared, but 1t is lean'
hungry and disheartened-
There are investigations and threat
ened bills at Albany and at Washing
ton, aimed at the stock exchange.
Business has been dull for a long time.
Prices are so far down from the levels
of boom times that they do not look
in the least like a big break 1mpeno-
ing but rather as if such a snash-up
had taken place and the recovery had
/ been slow.
All of which is conducive to gloom
and forced economy. 1t is Well cal
! culated to beat down the market
value of stock exchange seats which
are as low, in proportion, as almost
any group of securities known to the
street 1t makes brokers and their
business associates wonder what will
happen to them if anything more goes
wrong with their occupation.
Is it necessary to say that the coun-
try can stand a great deal of this sort
of trouble without serious results
Industries and commerce which deal
with the solid substance of things DO
not feel the woes of the stock ex-
change. The. people of the Onlteo
States are not less busy and prosper
GUS The country goes forward at the
same pace it has been Keeping up
through many months or swift eX-
pansion.
AS for Wall street, it will probably
feel better and fare better peIore
long Its downs have always oeen
followed by it's ups. and history re-
peats itself in the financial center OF
the country as well as in the larger
movements of nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
says UNCLE CIV

Scholars would find this happier
world if fewer of them were intel
lectual misers. There is. perhaps
some excuse for the poor, warped,
money-grabbing soul that oecolh me-
mad over it's material possessions, but
the mind that is capable of scholar
ship is not to be so lightly acquitted
of boarding that which is worthless
until it is spent. One may IN -
measure, Justify the refusal to spend
money by the plea of the proVerbial
rainy day, but he who in the pursuit
of learning forgets to make use OF 1t
may make no such plea.
Far from being the Impractical
thing that it is commonly supposed
to be, scholarship should be the es-
sence of the practical. 1t should be
synonymous with human service.
'Twere a pity that in saying He Is
scholar" we cannot be understood to
mean, He had dedicated his life to
the uplift of the race The PROOF
of the assertion is that no scholar at
tains fame or fortune who is not thus
consecrated. A too merciful obllVloh
shelters him that refuses to make use
of his talent. He that plays the
sponge among his books should be
nilIoried in the public square and
pelted by those whom he has refused
to serve. ,.o,t a,o,,a ;,
and a high order of intelligence i'm
poses an obligation for h1gh oroer
of service The mere attainment OF
learning is an abomination. knoWl-
edge mocks him that possesses 1t, but
refuses to apply it to the crying needs
of the world The ghosts of thous-
and neglected opportunities haunt the
narchment-face deliver into ancient
lore who merely delves into ancient
give to others the results of his re-
search. Mark the pitiabIe CONTRAST pc
tween him and the chemist in ms
laboratory eagerly pursuing some new
Industrial formula for the saving or
wealth and labor, or the devoted
nhvsician in the clinic, seeking
through weary and countless DAYS
some secret that shall open the door
of health and usefulness to disease
ridden thousands.
There is nothing truer in Holy writ
than the parable of the talents. me
moral is applicable to the misery
scholar with double force, since he
huries not one talent but many When
he complains that the world does not
anpreciate him he but condemns him
self for he has biven it no oppor-
unity. He boards that which cannot
enrjsh him, and if others followed his
unhappy example, the race would be
poor indeed.
whose gives a new thought or new
light upon an old one is blessed, but
he that covers his light as with
busheI is a malingerer in world that
has need of workers-(Copyrig
1913 by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dictate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

Apparently Vice President Marshall
does not take r1uch stock in the
rumor that he is to become a mem
Der of the presidents council. In
closing his inaugural speech he con-
signed himself to oblivion in the fol-
lowing words: Here in this
most sacred spot where war
has been made and peace
declared, here in the presence of the
distinguished representatives of the
governments of the civilized world,
here within the hearing of the beauty.
culture and ripened statecraft of his
own land, may one humble American
express the hope before he enters up
on a four years silence that all our
diplomacy may spell peace with all
people, justice for all governments
and Righteousness the world around. !"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
To Warn Vessels.

Dundee, Scotland, March S.-A
watchful sentry will henceforth be
on duty in the Atlantic ocean to
warn vessels of the approach of ice
and to assist in averting disasters
such as the Titanic. The whaling
ship Scotia left this port today having
on board a number of scientists who,
by means of a powerful wireless APP
paratus will notify all ships cross
ing in either direction of the presence
and progress of foes of icebergs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

The Arkansas legislature has gone
into the business of regulating news
papers, and the senate has passed a
bill providing that Arkansas papers
shall give the same display to COM
plants made about articles as to the
articles themselves and publish all
such complaints when requested. and
that stories of crimes and. divorces
shall be published only on inside pages
and under small heads. Apparently
they know no more about legislative
business than they do about newspa-
per business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
OLD FiDDLERS' CONTEST
h. and Il. of S. Affair Is Being Ar
ranged on Big Scale.

The old fiddlers' contest which will be
given at the Auditorium March 10 by the
knights and Ladies of Security promises
to be the biggest event of the kind yet
held in Topeka Many of the old timers
have already registered for the event. The
merchants of Topeka have offered a large
number of valuable and attractive prizes.
They will be display at the Badders
store. Saturday, March IS.
- full list of the prizes will be an
nounced by the management within few
days. 1. H Ewing, of Kansas City, Kan.
who is 81 years old, has entered the con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
Resigns Business connections.

Washington, March $40 devote his
whole time to his duties as the head
of the department of commerce, Sec
rotary Redfield today resigned from
his outside business connections, a di-
rectorship in the Equitable Life In
surance company, the presidency or
the American Manufacturers Export
association and a dictatorship in the
American Blower company of Detroit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
Pleads Not Guilty.

st. Paul, Mimi, March S.-Profes-
sor Oscar n. Olson of the University
of Minnesota, who the police say, has
confessed to shooting Clyde N. OAR
ling, today pleaded not guilty in NUM-
cipal court here to the charge of muir
der in the first degree and was re-
manded to Jail to await grand jury
action. No mention was made of the
"'unwritteu law"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
FROM OTHER PENS

REVISING MODERN DOCTRINE.
The Mexicans are cheering Ambas-
sador Wilson in Mexico City. and
Americans are applauding the action
taken by President Taft in our own
capital. That is good evidence of the
sensible way in which we have per-
ceived and performed our duty in a
grave crisis. But there are those not
satisfied to leave well enough alone.
Inasmuch as the United States is a
nation on this continent, we are to en-
joy hereafter the valuable assistance
of our southern neighbors in manag-
ing our affairs and may prepare our
selves for assisting them in managing
theirs. The old doctrine has got US
into no trouble, and has sometimes
kept US out of trouble by keeping 9TH
er nations on other continents from
meddling in the affairs of this contin-
ent. The meddling of others which
we stopped is hereafter to be our own
especial way of putting our fingers in
to other peoples pies and providing
them with presidents whenever we
think that the presidents which they
provide for themselves in their own
manner are chosen by force" The or
der is too large even for Uncle Sam.
The Taft way and the old doctrine are
good enough.-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

The Democrat house is being criti-
cised for its extravaganza, but it
sho, Id be remembered that it was
"Republican extravaganza" that was
denounced in the party platform.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

The Price raid claims bill has been
killed again. 1t ought to have been
passed. Kansas got the money to sat
isfy these claims from the national
government years ago, paid part of
them and put the rest of the money
in her pocket where it has been ever
since. If Kansas had been man in
stead of a state, it would have been in
the penitentiary.-Iola Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
For Service in North.

Philadelphia, March Scout
cruiser Birmingham is being prepar-
ed at the Philadelphia navy yard for
six weeks patrol duty in the ice field
of the North Atlantic ocean and will
leave about March Is. The cruiser
is being coaled and provisioned for
two months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
Offered Military Job.

Jacksonville, Fla, March S.-A
special dispatch from Havana says
that Colonel Edmund Frederick, late
chief of artillery under General Maxi
mo Gomez. was offered the command
of a Castro expedition to Venezuela
by General Castro while here. Frede-
rick has neither affirmed nor denied
the report. He is a member of the
Veterans association and very close
to President-elect Menecal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
Baker Secretary of Senate.

Washington, March 81. NJ. Baker, of
South Carolina assistant librarian of the
senate, was nominated by the Democratic
caucus today for secretary. 1t is equiv
alent to an election. He received Is votes
to % which were scattered among Joseph
l.. Wilson. the presidents brother, former
Senator Obadiah Gardner, of Maine, and
of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
Another Dynamiter Released.

LeaVenworth, Kan, March S.-Henry
Legleitner, of Denver, one of the thirty
three men convicted at indianapolis of
conspiring to transport dynamite illegally,
and sentenced to three years in the fed
eral prison here, was released shortly
before noon today. Bond of $4,000 ap-
proved at Chicago, arrived this morning.
1 arIeitr,e,. Immediately started home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

The monitor Puritan is to be made
a target for American gunners. NO
body else seems inclined to shoot up
orr ships so we do it ourselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF sns
Associated Press and receives the IuII ~
telegram report of that great news VI
ganization for the exclusive afterno"n
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The state 'ouI
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08
Cathedral DESTROYED.

Charlottetown. P. r. l.. March s.
st. Dunstan's Roman Catholic cathe-
dral, the largest church in this pro-
vince. was destroyed by fire today.
The loss is 100000. The fire is sup
posed to have been started by an cleo
trio light wire behind the altar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

No need to look for ennui even if
Huerta does seem to be getting the
Mexicans under control. Cipriano Cas-
tro has gone as far south as Cuba.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

Isn't that debt of 100000 which
Lawrence is said to owe the state out
lawed yet? 1t appears to be as hard
to collect as the one which the state
owes Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

The pronunciation of Huerta's name
may not be of any consequence a few
days from now. Nevertheless, it is
"Wearta.'' Make the first syllable
rhyme with bear" not with dear"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

And neither in Mexico does there
seem any opportunity for Andrew Car
negie to pension enough ex-presidents
to make it worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

Mrs. Pankhurst Iikens the "womens'
revolution in England to the Mexican
revolution. Perhaps she intends to
challenge Lloyd George and order dead
walls and firing squads for two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

New York, it is reported. has lent
Mexico $4,000 900. Perhaps the inten-
ton is eventually to annex it as a
Tammany ward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

The passage of the pure finger
bowl bill'' by the Pennsylvania legis-
Iature leads to the thought that pos
sibly the Quakers were in the habit
of drinking from the finger bowls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

For a number of days past Aoria'
nopIe has apparently been as qulel d.
Armageddon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

What the governor of New jersey
said to the governor of Indiana proba-
blv was: Its a long time between IN
augurations.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

The first suffragist party plattorI
will undoubtedly contain plank oe
claring for good roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

AS a beginning, Mr.. wilson mas SUI
ceeded in decreasing the hlgh cost
inaugurating-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

Abdul Hamid, in a published article
opposes divorce. Considering the mum
her of wives he has, who can blam
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-08

An interested public hopes that LII
Friedman brought his Esklrnos Will
him.