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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Coffeyville has voted $40, 900 for an in
terurban line % miles long extending
into Oklahoma.
Harry Tucker has sold the Craw-
ford Enterprise at Girard to his fore
man, William Evans.
The young people in Independence
have organized an early walking club.
The late walking clubs are quite COM
mon.
Hutchinson will give a banquet for
'Ironjaw'' Brown because he helped her
get the state fair. She still needs help
in getting those bonds voted.
Professor Dyche is being urged for
the position of United States fish COM
missioner. He might make the people
of-say Nevada-believe that the carp
is good to eat.
Since Leavenworth became the home
of carnival company, says the Post,
it is noticed that there are no more old
horses on the streets. They are bought
up and fed to the lions.
An interurban car line is being sur
veyed northward through Petrolia, the
gas company's pumping station. If the
company would send it's gas by freight
we might get it faster.
The fact that six days after the sea-
son opened there had only been one
ball game in Washington is considered
sufficient reason by the Fort Scott
Tribune, for the discharge of Chief
Moore
If you must keep the garbage pail
in the front yard this spring. says the
Winfield Courier, at least show SYM
pathy with the City Beautiful move
ment by decorating it with pink and
blue ribbon
Down at Pittsburg, a deputy sheriff
attempted to attach an elephant with
a circus. A man injured by a show
wagon had sued the show. The ele-
plant picked the officer up and threw
him against the tent, Thereupon he
a wagon and a team instead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
POINTED PARAGRPHS.
[From the chicago News

EFrom the Chicago News.l
The borrowed umbrella is usually taken
by storm.
Strike while the iron is hot If you wo *
in a laundry.
Silent contempt is responsible for many
an unblacked eye.
The more people talk back the better
the auctioneer likes it.
If a politician has any virtues he need
not apologize for them
Some fool people count their chickens
before the eggs have been laid.
Love is like seasickness it may be felt
but. cannot be adequately described
Before answering call to duty most
men want to know about. the renunera
ton.
The chap who is an expert at making
excuses can never draw large fees for his
skill.
A mans children, like their mother, are
apt to ask a lot of embarrassing ques-
tons.
A bachelor must fight life's battles
single handed. Still, he spends his money
that way.
NO. Cordelia, it isn't necessary to use
a fountain pen when you want to write
gushing letter
Many a girl with brains enough for
two equalizes many things by marrying 2
man without any.
When married man has a good dis
position it's possibly because his wife
won't stand for any other kind.
And occasionally we meet a married
woman who is sorry she is not in the
spinster class. There are married Maud
Mullers
Young man, you should not attempt 70
kindIe a flame in a girls heart unless
your income is sufficient TO provide fuel
to keep the fire going.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
rFron the Philadelphia Record.


A man is also known by the company
he keeps away from.
Some people come to grief and some
wait for 1t to overtake them.
Many a woman wears her clothes well
who doesn't wear well herself.
Talk is cheap, but the less man says,
the less he has to take back
Take care of the pennies and the dollars
will take care of-your heirs
No man suffers from insomnia that
he isn't occasionally caught mapping.
Keep your advice to yourself and your
friends will live to thank you for it.
Don't allow yourself to be thrown on
your own resources unless you are sure
they are there.
Would you say that fellow who al
WAYS goes around with a chip on his
shoulder was a blockhead2
Sillicus-.Fair play is all any man
wants. Cynicus-'Yes. but he also wants
to be the judge of its fairness.
"A fool and his money are soon parted, "
quoted the Wise Guy .-Oh, cheer up, .
aomonished the Simple Mug. There are
lots more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
WITH THE FREAKS.

WITH THE FREAKS.
Mr.. Barnum. Mr.. Bailey,
COR your heir)
See me daily going gayly
Down the stair
Where the Skeletons in fashion
And the Fat Boy feels a passion
For the Lady that's Circassian
With the Hair,
Let million other patrons
Rush to greet
The trapeze's maids and matrons
Flying fleet.
| prefer the region under,
Where the naughty Armless Wonder
Makes the poor piano thunder
With his feet.
Yes; the Clowns are rather comic,
One admits,
And contortions anatomic
Count for hits,
Yet I still prefer to visit
Where the graceful and exquisite
And most beautiful What-Is-It
Simply sits.
See the Soaring Sisters fragile
On the bari
They are wonderfully agile
So they are.
Yet leave those ladies plant
To their doings death-defiant
While l go where Mr.. Giant
Is the star.
It's with pleasure that the vaulters
Here 1 scan;
And the daring somersaulters
Suit my plan.
But I'm still more eulogistic
When 1 see the symbols mystic
Decorating the artistic
Tattooed Mani
John O'Keefe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
PASSING OF THE BULL MOOSE.

Under the caption, mo Reason to
Live" the Pittsburg Post, a Democrat
newspaper, disposes of the Bull Moose
party as a political quantity for all
time. In Pennsylvania it was called
the Washington party for the pur-
poses of last years campaign. The
Post says:
The Washington party in Pennsyl-
vania is passing away because there
is no reason for it to survive. Efforts
to revive it are proving futile. When
members refuse to respond to the lash
of their leaders it is plain that they
are earnest in their revolt, which
means that the socalled third party,
which was strong enough last year to
carry the state, is no longer a factor
to be considered Its disintegration is
as complete as it has been remarkable.
New parties come into existence for a.
purpose, and as rule they stay long
enough to fulfill their mission. The
mission of the one-man third party
ended with the closing of the polls
last November, and there never has
been a good excuse for trying to keep
it alive in Pennsylvania. The failure
to use it in the enactment of legisla-
ton at Harrisburg merely emphasized
its fate.
Last year Michigan was one of the
states that tied itself to the third party
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcH1soN GLOBE.

| A young teacher soon finds out that a
pupil is not always student.
| Kansas would be a great state if there
1 were a fish for every fish worm.
If man must be henpecked, he pre-
| fers to have his daughter boss him.
Unless it ends in a fight, quarrel is
| apt to give a continuous performance.
| AS a man grows older, he is apt to care
more for comfort and less for chivalry. p
Jude johnson: THE difference between
spring fever and auto fever is about
$2,.-~.''
A boy shouldn't be required to wear
curls unless he is able to whip his play
mates.
A boy whose voice is beginning to
change can sympathize with a broken
down monograph.
1t is our theory that the gent who ex-
Too Far.
Alb. Adkins says he always takes his
time, not to mention good deal of that
of his friends.
though only a diffident man, people think
am stuck up"
there is, however. more religious liberty
than there should be.
Don't rush madly around; just keep 60
ing in a deliberate fashion and you will
get there.
Mems new. styles are quite narrow
gauge, and intended to make fat men
look more like sausages.
1t is possible, but improbable, that some
one might make hit by writing a popu-
lar song in English
Give your daughters such a pleasant
home they will never want to leave it, and
you will be helping some.
One nice thing about the weather bu-
reau is that you can call it short and ugly
names without having to fight about it.
Piracy probably became passe because
man naturally wants to retire when he
has made big success of his business.
1t isn't bad idea to bear the Irish
mans words in mind occasionally. THE
wisest words / ever shpake." he sail,
was when didn't shpake at ALL.
No. Ch-istobel, the fact that you have u
corn behind your right ear, caused by the
friction of your lead pencil, is no sign
that you have great literary ability
Il have had good deal OF trouble in
my time, most of which never happened.
Which is old stuff you say. Quite so, bus
good enough to repeat, and just true Of
me as of you."-Rufe Hoskins.
A young man walked down the street
this morning wearing purple necktie, a
lavender shirt. a mixed cheese-color suit.
a straw hat light socks and carrying a
cane They kill men like Lincoln and let
things like that live sadly remarked a
h-a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
KANSAS COAAENT
ON TIME.

Much has been written about the
live-savers who patrol the dangerous
coasts to warn shippers OF perlls, anu
of the foresters who ward the uinpes
tracts from fires, of the police, anu
the firemen, and the railroad crews
all of them men devoted to occupa-
lions which differ from much labor
because of the inspiring element OF
duty
There is much drudgery in the
world which is localized by duty
Such a task is that of the newspaper
carrier boys, who turn out to work
while the city yet sleeps In order that
patrons may learn as soon as they get
up what the vast world has been do
ing.
The carrier boy is the last link in
train of events of stupendous scope
and complex activities. 1t is he who
carries to the household one OF the
most perishable commodities of COM
merce. The value of the vast enter
prises he represents depends vitality
on the time his commodity is deliv-
cred.
He visits every morning bright and
early a vast assemblage of households.
known as his route" and the great
merit of his service is that he is on
time.
Through rain and snow and sleet
all mornings are alike to the boy who
must be on time. Faithful and zeal
Gus in his business, he has TO be on
time. InOugh he De overcome Dy the
storm, though accidents befall him.
the carrier boy persists in his ideal
that his patrons must be served on
time.
A beautiful sentiment to palliate
misfortune which has recently be-
fallen an Eagle carrier boy indicates
that the reading public appreciates
fully the ideal of the carrier boy, of
being regular in his service and on
time.-Wichita Eagle.
LOOKS LIKE A "FRAME-UP."
The sensational story sent out from
Washington involving Senator Gore, of
Oklahoma, has many of the indications
of frame-up. The presence OF wit
nesses to prove that Senator Gore
called on the Bond woman at her hotel
looks as though trap had been de-
set for the blind senator and
that he walked into it. IT is another
incident showing the extremity of Bit
terness in the political warfare of the
new state.
The charges against Senator Gore are
not made for the moral good: the men
who are after him care nothing about
his morals. They are after his polit-
fcal scalp.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

What are known as barn storm
ers' in the theatrical profession have
at last received recognition in a sub
stantial way. Around Sherman lake,
one of the -nnumerable small bodies
of water in New York state, says Pop
ular Mechanics. gather many cottagers
and campers during the summer
months. Facilities for amusement, 9TH
err than those provided by the lake and
the surrounding farming country, are
scarce, SO the owner Of a farm near
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
FROM OTHER PENS

MIR. WILSON AND POPULAR RULE
Much was heard in the last national
campaign about popular rule. Nov
PRESIDENT Wilson is showing himself
in various ways to be believer in rule
of that sort in affairs of government
For he takes the people into his CON
fidence and asks congress to do .ha
same.
The president, for example, reuuestal
the Democrats of the house to consider
the tariff bill in open caucus. This
was a sound suggestion. Inasmuch
as the house of Representative fs
practtcaffy certain to do what the Dem
ocratic caucus recommends. the real
deliberation upon the tariff bill will
De IN the latter body rather than upon
the 1loor OF the house. With his char
acter1stic desire to permit the peopIe
to know precisely what is going On.
PRESIDENT Wilson did what he could
TO nave the caucus proceedings made
PUBIC His plan was voted down nv
substantial majority. Chairman lin
uer wooo ana other Democratic leaders
caucus. 'ooi0'
president Wilson also fayors She
framing and passage of several SON
arate tariff bills, instead of a single
measure covering the entire subject of
.alhil REVISION. The former method is
wen calculated to prevent log rolling
and to foster intelligent comprehen.
SION by the people at large of the real
issues involved in the preparation Of
new tariff schedules. In this matter
also' the president has been overruled
tor the time being. The plan adopted
by the ways ard means COMMITTEES ia
70 include the entire programme of tar-
IF revision in single bill
IN oVerruling the president in these
important matters the Democratjo
leaders In congress have put themselves
IN q position where they must be espe-
sentiment by the kind of tariff revision
.ney present to the nation. They will
nave little enough to gain by putting
themselves In the wrong and thereby
coming into open conflict with a presi-
~ and openly to the peopie.-c,hicae %
News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
HVAOR or THE DIP

suppose your children all take lessons
IN IN oanclng! Yes, replied Mr.. Growcher:
DuI they cont need them. What people
want nowadays is lessons in Keeping ouief
Tor reasonable periods of time s"-wssh
fngton Star. "Sh-
MY grandfather laid down q ton 30
wine when my father was born. "a fine
custom. New, what have you done for
your son Haven't done anything as
yet. L might put crate of eggs into cold
storage. washington Herald.
Daughter: you haven't known him long
senoougn. Father, 1 have known him
have similar tastes to take them in har-
mony through the long journey of life"
I'VE have them. We both like musical
comedy and golf."-LouisviIle Courier
Journal
DO you think criminal tendencies can
am certain of it" You think tbst saw
pickpocket, for instance can he cured
OF the desire to pick pockets by an opera
brain Amputate his hands Houston
Post.
Overheard -He-You'n admit that Mar
garet has fine teeth. She-Yes; but L
think the way she shows them is positive
ly Observation-Disclosures
Mrs. O1dfam-That set of china belonged
to my Observation-Disclosures Caller
Dld II, really why, L have not a single
piece that belonged to my great-grand-
mother. Mrs OLDHAM Observation-Disclosures
Caller-No. We always kept servants,
you know.-New York World
she-You know, my dear Julius He
Julius2 You meant to say Karl didn't
you? She-Oh, how silly of me 1 thought
this was Wednesday!-Punch Bowl.
De man who has mind of his own Is
too keerful of it ter give it away ter
ever body dat comes along.-Atlanta Con-
sttution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

the lake turned his barn into a unique
theater. Benches and seats of the cir
Gus type, placed in the open air, ac-
commodate the audience, while the GEN.
trail entrance of the barn is the stage
The big sliding doors, which are open
ed wide in the haying season to allow
the loads to enter, serve as the stage
curtain. Five sets of scenery, all made
of wallpaper, are used
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

After seeing it in a large number of
newspapers, we have decided that it
is the consensus of opinion that New
York's round e-urt house will not be
conducive to a square deal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
ON TIE SPUR
OF TIE MOMENT
A Model Husband.
By ROY x. MOULTON.

A Model Husband.
James Henry Bilkins was a man who
loved the simple life.
Domestic duties he would never shirk
He took his pay right home each week
and gave it to his wife,
And never missed a single day of work.
He bore with patience all the ills and
woes of household strife
And met all other troubles with srnirk.
He carried baby all night long and took
it out to ride,
And pushed the little cab without a
sigh.
He built the kitchen fire and cooked the
breakfast food beside,
And always kissed his better half good
by.
Then ran to catch his street with
smile extending wide,
A model for all husbands far and wide.
He hooked his wife's dress UP the back
and never made a kick,
He paid her bills and never said a word.
He never called the household down when
he CHANGED to be sick;
To think of him as peevish was absurd.
He never stayed out late at night or
worked the "sick friend trick.
In fact James Henry Bilkins was
bird
It's pretty hard for anyone to credit all
this CUFF,
And YOU will think there must be some
mistake,
That anv living man could be made of
that kind of stuff;
And we have an apology to make,
James Henry Bilkfns, you must know, IS
nothing but a bluff,
This little yarn of ours is just a fake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

President Wilson is getting a reputa-
ton for being an expert weather
prophet. Maybe he turned Moore out
so as to have an opportunity to handle
the job himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Texas is now blowing by wind
power" says recent dispatch. Then
agriculture ought to look up in that
state as soon as its few thousand dis
appointed job-hunters return from
VVashiugton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

If. as is claimed, pu1que is the cause
of the disorder in Mexico, why not
send down an adequate consignment
of American, five-cent blue-barrel
whisky and have it over with quickly?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

A Yale football hero who married
an actress now wants the marriage an
nulled so he can go back to college
and his wife is no doubt perfectly
willing to let him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Jersey City has adopted the commits
sion form of government This brings
into the commission class the largest
Eastern city that has yet appeared
there and one that has an intimate af-
fiIiation with New York City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that in a
hundred years eating meat will be a
thing of the past. Are the prices to
continue advancing?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

The Belgian Socialists who sent their
children out of the country preparatory
TO the big strike are more forehanded
than the lawrence strikers were.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

A Chicago man was found beaten
to death with a hammer, but the po-
lice have not yet advanced the theory
that he did it himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Harry Thaw has had his first stroke
of good luck in several years. The
court has held that he is not respon-
sible for his wife's clothing debts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

With the dwindling away of the Bull
Moose party and the Democrats carry
ing the tariff revision load it looks
like there will be a fine chance for
the Elephant to return to his own in
1915
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

BY barring the job-hunters from the
White House. Mr.. Wilson has deprived
Private Secretary Tumulty of a splen-
did opportunity to live up to his name
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

If living in a flat is degeneratin
enough to prompt people to draw cubs
pictures, what is riding in street cars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Col. Roosevelt claims to have started
the suffrage movement, which leads
the Washington Post to remark that
il he can't be the father of his country
he will be it's mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Ironic fatei The senate barber shop
was taken off the free list before Col
oneI ]. Hamilton Lewis started for
Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

1t is related that Billy Sundays
preaching made John Wanamaker
weep. But tears, at best. are non-ne-
gotiable contributions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

The great Serbo-American conspir-
acy of Durazzo" is so called because
it's originator was an American citi-
zen, a MIR. Gopcevic. Tt certainly sounds
pIausible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Castles in the air have become a real
fly in England since the suffragette
dynamiters got to work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

Ordinary taxes are equivalent to rem
paid on property owned, but the inheri
lance tax is a fine levied on those who
die rich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

In Mexico, just now, it is better to
be in right than to be president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

When it comes to DR.. friedman:
cure, we are all Missourians-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the TUT oay
feIerranh report of that great news r-
ganizatfon for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The state jour
mai building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21
Side Talks With Girls.

If YOU want to land him be totally
Indifferent and let him see you with
other young gentlemen as much as
possible.
Don't let him know before you are
married that you are a good cook or
he will let you do it afterwards.
O. Before you are married promise him
that he can stay out late at night
as often as he pleases and then the
first time he does rap him on the
comeback then.
Don't let him see very many of your
relatives before you have him booked.
You probably have lot of funny
ones. Everybody else has.
Tell him you hate the theater and
don't care a rap for automobiles or
fine clothes, then when you get him
let him find out differently.
From the Hickeyville Clarion.
A man never appreciated how
science and invention are marching
onward until a rich uncle dies and
leaves him glue factory 1t seems
as though the opportunities for in
vestment are limitless. The master
brains of this country are working
while we of the sordid, somber hue
are asleep. They are inventing left
handed monkey wrenches, patent can
openers that can also be used as an
jack and folded up and
carried in the vest pocket; nonbreak-
able window glass, noiseless automo-
bile horns and colicless cucumbers.
Lem Higgins says he nearly died
from strangulation once when he was
a young man. but the governors par
don arrived just in time.
There will never be a shortage in
the crop of funny lookin' derbies-
There are still a few old-fashioned
fellers who try to make both ends
meet.
When a defeated candidate de-
mands a recount he gem ally finds that
he is wus off than he thought he was.
A woman cares more about the
price of lace insertion than she does
about the price of beefsteak or coal
Luke Purdy has returned from a visit
to Chicago The only thing of value he
brought back with him was his gold fill
ings He kept his mouth shet while there
and the holdup men didn't know he had
EN-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

she-You know, my dear Julius He
Julius2 You meant to say Karl didn'-
you? She-Oh, how silly of me 1 though
this was Wednesday!-Punch Bowl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-21

De man who has mind of his own is
too keerful of it ter give it away ter
ever body dat comes a1ong.-Atlanta Com
stltution-