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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18

was another matter. However his
sense of honor was keen. As he tramp
ed the moors fighting the question in
his mind. he decided that if such
thing had happened the fault was en-
tirely his. He would offer himself sim
ply, sincerely, and if Kate Cameron
had unwittingly given her heart into
his keeping he would do all in his
power to make up to her for the love
she must never know he had failed to
give.
The next evening there was a dance
the last Of the season. Midnight found
him in a secluded corner. Kate Cam
eren beside him. She stood leaning on
the balcony railing, her chin in her
hands. looking out over the moonlight
ran through him at the thought of
what he was about to say.
Mr.. Renslaw. there is something 1
want to tell you
"Yes?' He smiled almost tenderly.
"Yes?' he said again.
Last night Mr.. Graham asked me
to marry him.
She did not look at him as she spoke
but remained motionless.
So it was Graham! Renslaw stood
gazing at her. What a blatant egotist
he had been! He looked at her and a.
fierce, hot rebellion surged up within
him. With a sudden. binding realiza-
ton he knew, too late, that he loved
her.
A slight movement beside him
brought her back to the fact that she
had spoken.
"Yes?" he said. gently. Thank you
for telling me- Kate. And you love
him. of course? You will be very hap
py?'
''Oh, nor There was a note of sur
prise, almost of distress, in her
voice.
I told you because I wanted to ask
you If you thought I had been to
blame. I didn't meant never intend
ed to let him think
He had her hands in his, caught in
a grasp that hurt.
"Kate?' His voice broke for a mo-
ment. Tell me, Kate he commanded,
is there any one whom you love?"
Her eyes fell.
Look at me, Kate
She raised her eyes. Slowly, won
deringly, a look Of radiant, ineffable
Joy dawned in her face.
You love me- she whispered;
your
"I!" he Knocked tenderly. She was in
his arms now. "Oh, Kate, Kate" he
whispered; you wonder of the world"
1913 by the Mcclure
Newspaper SyndicateD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18
says UNCLE CIV

What we heed to make this gang
successful said the Old Line Politi-
clan, lis one or two fellows who can
think and a lot of popeyed guys to do
the work. That will make the dis
tribution of spoils about right-three-
fourths for the fellows who do the
heavy thinkin' and the rest for the
gents with the bugging optics.''
All of which was perfectly true
from the standpoint of the old line
politician and of the expIoiters Of
other peoples energies generally
There wouldn't be SO many swollen
fortunes or prosperously corrupt
politicians, not so many slave drivers,
if there weren't so many "popeyed
guys
the person whose eyes naturally seem
to be about to pop out of his head.
The fellow he had in mind is the
one who never thinks for himself
the unfortunate chap to whom every
new idea means a brainstorm and
whose eyes bug every time some
thing new is suggested. Put the or
binary, everyday, thinking run Of
man in the company of the directors
of the deStinieS of the business world
and he is at once and forever-unless
he learns to think-in a state of pop
eyed surprise.
In these days of OverOrganized so
ciety and highly-paid middlemen, sue
to think fast enough and to wear an
inscrutable expression while you are
doing the thinking. The big fellow
is watching for your eyes to pop"
and when they do, he has you. He
knows that he has thought of thou
sand things that have never occurred
to you, and that once he has you upon
unknown territory, you're his meat.
He tolls not, neither does he spin
he thinks and as long as you do not
think he's going to get the big end
Of your earnings. This isn't his fault,
it's yours. It's as natural for his SUI
perior abilities to gather to him the
fruits of your unthinking efforts as 1t
is for water to run down hill. It's
law of nature and no system that man
has ever devised or ever can devise
can change it.
Ever stop to think how the success
full man regards the failure? The fail
ure is his natural prey. He can't help
it and he knows it. If there is any
change in conditions, the failure must
make 1T, not he.
drifts away from him. The really big
man knows this and he also knows
that If he doesn't get it and put it to
use somebody else will. He believes
he has as much right to 1t as any ore,
and he has. There is no reason why
he should leave it lying around loose.
So he makes it his own and uses it af-
ter his own fashion. Short of abb
SOAulS dllTuISI he call Do expected
to do anything else, and most of US
are only trifle altruistic.
Don't be a "pop-eyed guy"
Brutal as 1t may be. the weak are
the natural prey of the strong ard
they will be as long as strength is
strength and weakness is weakness.
Think a little. Analyze your sur
roundings. Look ahead a couple Of
moves and you'll win a game now and
1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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QUAKER MEDITAToNs.
tFrom the Philadelphia Record.l

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Don't follow your. inclinations unless
you know where they are leading you.
Many a mans only idea of improving
his time is to tinker with his watch.
We can't all be stars, but on the other
hand we needn't necessarily be clouds,
either.
AS a general thing when a man marries
his stenographer he ceases to dictate to
her.
Many a woman's idea of good husband
is one who can carve without getting any
spots on the tablecloth.
Sillicus-"That fellow Bjones is terribly
affected" Cynicus-'Yes, sometimes he
even acts like gentleman
THE world is full of kickers,' remarked
the Wise Guy. Yes, that's what most of
US are kicking about" added the Simple
Mug.
Nell-"The Widow Dashaway's husband
didn't leave her much when he died, did
he?" Belle-"No but he left her very
often when he was alive"
Tommy-''Pop, what is foresight?'' Tom
my's Pop-"Foresight, my son, is gift
that comes to a man when he gets so old
he has nothing to look forward to-
He was hopelessly in love, and founder
ing. There are sermons. in stones,'' he
said, apropos of nothing. Yes. especially
in solitaires,' she added, heIpfully.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18
EVENING CHlT

A Big little Thing,


''Say over again, and yet once again,
That thou dost love me-
Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted
BY a doubtful spirit-voice, in that
doubts pain
Cry, Speak once moro thou lovest!'
Who can fear
Too many stars, though each in heaven
shall roll
Too many flowers though each shall
crown the year?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love
me-tou
The silver iterance-only minding, dear,
To love me also in silence with thy
soul"
Elizabeth Browning.
A woman writes to me to tell me
that she is miserably unhappy because
she doubts her husbands love.
1T isn't that he is actually unkind
to me-" she says, "or that he has any
thing to do with other women. He's
not that sort. He's steady and kind
and quite generous, but Miss Cameron,
he never tells me that he loves me.
When we were first married he used
to tell me how sweet and good I was
and how he loved me, but he never
does now. Perhaps 1 ought to be con-
tent because he is kind and a good
provider' and doesn't beat me, but oh.
Miss Cameron, want him to love me
and tell me so. Am very foolish?"
No, dear lady, you're not foolish at
all, just feminine, eternally feminine.
Ever since women were women, they
have been feeling az you do,
and so long as women are
women they will feel the same.
If ever they absorb enough of that
much Wanted masculine reasonableness
to cease feeling that way, then they
won't be women; men won't love them
any more and the race will die out.
But 1 don't think there's any immedi-
ate danger.
No woman ever gets tired of being
told that she is loved. No woman is
ever content with silent proofs of a
mans love. She might get along with
the Il love you" unsupported by deeds,
but never without the verbal reassur-
ance.
If men would accept this feminine
feeling as IL fact and act accordingly
instead of laughing at 1t and reasoning
about it there would be more happy
homes.
Nor is 1t sufficient to tell a woman
once or twice year that you love
her. The man who asks, where's that
half-dollar I gave you last week?'' is,
no stingier than the man who expects
a semi-annual 'I love your to suffice. |
But why should my wife expect me
to stop loving her anyhow" asks a i
much puzzled man. 1 can't remember |
who it was that wrote, "Torments me |
still the fear that love died in its last |
express" but I'm sure it was a wo- ,
man, for surely only a woman would {
know that haunting fear which is al |
ways somewhere in the secret heart
chamber of the happiest and most con-
fdent of us.
Don't ask why, Mr.. Man, L can't tell
you, for you are q man and am a |
and there are some explana
lions that can never be carried across
hat eternal chasm. But If you will
1nly take this truth on faith and act |
upon it I'm sure you will make vour
nome happier and hence a better !
place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
LFrom the Chicago Neusl

IFrom the Chicago News.1
It's as easy to fall in love as to fall
out again.
All mankind loves a cheerful loser.
False modesty leads to false WAYS of
living
If he doesn't talk shop he probably has
no shop to talk.
The reason a girl objects to a man
kissing her is because.
What has become of the old fashioned
lightning rod peddler?
Next to the filler the worst thing
about a cheap cigar is the wrapper.
There are very few sisters of the same
size who do not pool their clothes.
A man can't lay up much treasure in
heaven until he quits lodging taxes on
earth.
If a girl believes in charms and love
powders her education has been sadly
neglected.
Now doth the busy little moth improve
each shining hour since that fair day in
early May when you packed your winter
things away and left them in his power.
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HU40R or TIE Dry

DO you think big navy is a euaran-
Senator Sorghum. You couId1', nrepst'1e
expect to build ships for big navy v1tttyy
out inviting quarrels over the apnronrtn
tons washington Star.
Are you sure that you're able To sum-
everything she wants? % "I am. at .,,clx
dog. can't"-Detroit Free Press.
Dung man. We need brains in o,,r
business know you do. That IL WIN
I'm looking for job here.''-Baitimors
American.
A famous college president DECLARE.
mat there are no new jokes" "Ah. he
Codger We'll, he ought to see the bI,s-
band my niece has lust married 80
brought home to live on me?'-Judee.
Hello. old chap; still doing newspana-
work.? Yep; on the Daily Biack-MaiI."
"On the regular staff?'' Nope: on srsaco
yet-what you might call penny-maiign-
er, you Knoxville. en-
Wimmen certainly amt got no cons;
tency." Whats the matter, Mike % 49,
wife chased me out wild a roiling-niv tbsS
morning, and then cried because I 1art
home without kissing her good nv 81;
Birmingham Age-Herald.
But You never play it, ssF1roba hl,, ttat.
the reason I like it. The men vvbo,,e
have seen playing it abused II terrih1,,
and didn't appear to get any enioxry.
out of the fresh air and the scene-,- - ~
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18
THE RAINY DAY.

The day is cold, and dark and dreary:
1t rains. and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall
But at every gust the dead leaves fall
And the day is dark and dreary,
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary:
1t rains, and the wind is never weary:
My thoughts still cling to the Wondering
Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the
blast.
And the days are dark and dreary
Be still, sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall
Some days must be dark and dreary.
-Longfellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18

linais' total time from departure to
arrival was fourteen hours and four
teen minutes, nearly four hours less
than the fastest train service between
the two American cities. OF the avia-
tors total time, however, no less than
four hours and thirty-nine minutes
was consumed in stops. His average
speed, therefore. was slightly more
than 100 miles an hour. Even more
impressive was the time made on the
last stage from Berlin to Warshaw. The
distance here is 355 miles, and it was
flown in 155 minutes, an average of
1877 miles an hour. Probably it will be
long time before this speed is equaled
by anything moving on land or water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18

desired legislation and the consequent
mitigation If not the suppression of the
vice which has caused such worldwide
misery and degradation
The admirable efforts made by the
Chinese nation to free itself from the
opium traffic are well known. Surely,
says The Journal of the American Med
ical Association, a young and vigorous
country like ours will not slothfully
permit itself to be overcome by the evil
which has been SO manfully wtthstood
by the ancient land of China, nor per-
nit in it's own legislation weakness
which might tempt China from the
answering sincerity Of its policy
in recent years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18

Former President Tafts conclusion
is that the courts decision in the Min
nesota case lis a great victory in prin-
ciple for the national control of inter
state commerce and the possession by
congress of the right to use every ap-
propriate means to render that control
effective and uniform, even where the
means may include an investigation
and restriction under congressional
authority of state fixed rates on state
business The language of the fed
era1 constitution is so plain that
court decision on that feature of the
case seemed scarcely necessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18
AYHAWKER JOTS

Winfield is headed for the metro
politan class. She has ordered all the
wooden awnings removed.
Junction City must be OVERLOOKING
with money. A vender of oriental
rugs has alighted in the town.
Three men carried off a phono-
graph from a house in Junction City
and instead of receiving a vote of
thanks they have been arrested.
The young lady stenographer who
was arrested for placing too many
mortgages on a rented piano, says the
Hutchinson Gazette, seems to nave
lived up to the letter of the new law.
by having the piano well plastered.
Notwithstanding the fact that a
dead man was found beside a sack
of chickens here. not person has
been heard to spring that awful gag
about fowl play" ottawa is one of
the best towns in Kansas.-Ottawa
Herald.
Lynn Blooms definition of a bull
moose is: A former Republican who
made such a spectacle of himself In
1912 that he is compelled to join the
Democratic party to keep from re-
turning to the Republican party and
taking a seat far, far to the rear
Salina holds out as an inducement
to President Wilson to visit that city
next fall that he can see $4,000 per-
sons For a man who can go out
on his front porch any evening and
see a larger audience than that the
attraction will not attract. What Will
son wants is watermelons and he will
come to Abilene.
Because Fredonia city and Wilson
county can not agree on who should
pay a $3.50 bill for fumigating. citi-
zen who has had diphtheria faces the
prospect of being quarantined all
summer. He is recovering and ready
to be fumigated and released, but
neither the county health officer nor
the city health officer will take down
the flag.
A friend of ours, who is temper
ate Christian gentleman, tells this
story on himself: He was driving
from Republic to Hardy, Neb., and
not. being sure of his road stopped to
ask a farmer who was working in the
hay field If he was on the right road
to Hardy. Yes" the farmer replied,
''but Hardy has gone dry" Our
friend tells this to show that there
is only one excuse for a Kansas. man
to go to Nebraska.-Cawker Ledger.
One of the hardest things to under
stand says the Parsons Sun, is the
among several Kansas
towns to secure. next years golf
rt--.-. az w.. -L.f-~ 4
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FROM OTHER PENS
WHO IS TO PAY MINIMUM wAcE9

WHO IS TO PAY MINIMUM WAGE?
Wage Investigations seem to leave
the general impression that current
rates are too low support ADEQUATE
ly homeless women workers If this il
true, then after We have settled upon
the exact amount of money that the
self-supporting girl or woman ought 70
be paid we shall only have cleared
the ground for a more difficult and
pressing question: Who is to paw itP
When the just minimum wage is de-
termined, the next thing will be TO
make 1T possible for the worker TO re-
ceive it. If $3.50 is the least which
VIII adequately support a homeless girl
In st. Louis-we use the sum for illus
tration-what good will the determi-
nation of that act do, if homeless girls
are to go on working for $3.50 and IS?
The only persons who can pay the
ol11erent between present wages and
suH1c1ent wages are the EMPLOYER Of
the girls labor and the consumer Of
that labor's product. Take, for en-
ample, the shirtmaker, If she must
make more than she does, then either
the employer must take less profit or
the shirtwearer must pay more for
what he buys over the counter. That
is elementary.
facturers been piling up profits foo
fast or have the users o. their nrod,,cts
been getting cheap goods at the expense
or the pallid cheeks, weary limbs and
Jaded powers of the workers who nro-
duced them? Will our leRisIators soc
that the minimum wage question fs
only the vestibule to a more SEARCHING
and difficult question which fol1ovs7
st, Louis Republic.
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BY THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

The telegraph operator who made il
reao; Theodore Roosevelt charged
up BUNK Hill today leading a brass
Dand' was wasting his time and eff
t LOTT me story, as filed under a Bos-
ton date line, needed no change to
qualify it for the joke column.
The few remaining holdouts in the
newspaper fraternity would like to
commemorate the Fall of Bert Wal
ker, but are in doubt where to erect
the monument
Who'sloonynow Chaloner thinks he
is sane, and offers a book of verses,
written by himself, to prove it. That
is common failing among nuts; they
nearly always convict themselves.
A reporter takes particular note of
the 1act that the phony check artist
now being entertained at Hotel Kiene,
wears expensive clothes. OF course he
does His expensive clothes are the
equivalent of the Games" flashlight
and sand bag he would have used had
ms activities turned to porch climbing
instead of check-passing.
An approaching political row in
the anti-dog faction. They might save
the expense of an election by counting
the dogs.
According to impressions to be
gathered from Beantown papers, Bos-
ton is still a center of patriotism, as
indicated by the number of red lights
white slaves and blue laws.
Take it from the reform senators,
and the lobbyists are so crooked they
couldn't wear anything ready made
but an umbrella, but the lobs candid
ly admit that they are the watchmen
who prevent the crooked senators
from ST no hn- inc no
teeth OF the pee-pul. Up to late
hour this afternoon neither side had
made any offer to turn states evil
dence, and the jury is inclined to con-
vict both defendants.
Now that the molly Gods are on top,
there is no further occasion for print
ing the four-spot on the July calendar
in red ink. Blue would be more ap-
propriate color.
When a man tells a woman a joke
that has been on the ice for 20 years,
and she fails to laugh over it, he
knows that she has no sense of HUI
NOR Men, being natural liars, can
laugh about three dozen times at the
same joke.
A fellow criminal, whose cell is on
1ucement to get us to join him in a
drug store drink today. Come on,
and I'll have 'em put a jolt of wood
alcohol in yours" was his cordial in
yitation.
No system is infallible. For in
stance, there is one for avoiding being
saying nothing, but it
allied in the case of Dave Mulvane. |
Dave was quoted, away last winter, as
making the statement that it looked
ike rain. Reporters who have ap-
preached him with tears and burglar
ools know that he never gave up an
Interview of that length.
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ONLY WALL STREET "sICK."


The contrast between the gloom in
Wall street and the activity and tone
of business in the country is very
striking There is nothing in the bank
clearings. the business failures, the
movement of freight on the railroads
or the output of industrial establish
ments which corresponds to the ex-
IRENE depression in the financial GEN.
ter of America.
Undeniably, there is much doubt
about the future in many cities. Men
of affairs know that the state of the
market for securities must sooner or
later have some effect upon the volume
of trade. and the conditions in Wash
ington which alarm many investors are
dfsquieting. of course, to business men
in all sections. But the country is also
greatly impressed with the evidences
of general prosperity and progress
which appear to be ignored, in large
measure, in New York.
The best authorities in the world of
commerce and productive industry can
not forget that the crops are promis-
ing a great yield. that the basic ele-
ments of weaIth-production and ma
tional growth and success are no less
abundant than they were weeks or
months ago. and that any check in
speculation and building for the future.
on a large scale, will be followed by
a vast accumulation of capital seeking
employment. Foreign trade, also, is
bigger and better than ever.
In a situation so mixed every days
developments will be watched careful
ly, but the general business of the
American people is not to be gagged
by the course of prices on the New
York stock exchange.
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The adage that half loaf is better
than no bread seems not TO have ap-
pealed to the city commissioners in
their controversy with the street car
company Instead of an extension to
Gage park costing $45, 600, the increase
of that amount in the taxable proper
ty of the county and city, and the ad-
dition of number of car crews to the
population, they have doubtful
chance of collecting a small portion
of a SIS, 900 bond after years of liti-
CATION Moreover, they will not get
the other extensions for which they
were contending. If a city, in grant
ing a franchise. places itself at the
mercy of a corporation it must take
the consequences
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-18

While the bull moose party lasts
It will hardly be more than a half
wav house, a sort of resting place, for
migratory Republicans and Demo-
Gratis At present it is being made
use of by a number of former Re
publicans. Next year perhaps, if
there be anything left of it, we shall
see it performing a similar service
for a large number of Democrats.
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