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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-20

worth much more. are they. Miss Nc
Curdy?'
Jess flushed and set her lips. She heard
Willard s. voice as IL IL were far away
| -IH take over the notes. tell Barrett,
both of them. You bring them to The
motel at 8, and I'll give you the money.
The door closed after the big, burly fig
ure. 1t was very quiet for a minute IN
the little office. Jess had turned her back
and faced the old desk. hr head dropping.
7 can't take the money" she said. 1T
isn't fair"
1T isn't? Well, I like that retortsd
| Willard. Here you'd let me go down to
my grave owing that debt. and unable TO
pay up, wouldn't you? Now, you listen
to me- little girl. / was just waif kid,
dropped OFF a freight train here one day,
and stole up through the yards yonder to
this door, and your father called me an
and gave me my first honest job HE.
made me all 1 am today, do you hear? IL
you don't want to take the double cash,
notes. 1t isn't for you, don't you see?
rs t. save the old mill he loved, and
keep the name of his boy clear I'm going
to do it anyhow, bur it'll be easier Il
you II let me in partner.
You'll be going west again., faltered
Jess. Then she looked up at him, and
something in his eyes sent the color pink
ink up her cheeks.
When L go west again, I'll not be go
ing alone said Willard. You need a
man at the old desk, Jess."-(Copyrfght
1918, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
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FROM. OTHER PENS
DUPES DE LUXE.

The fact that the sucker list en-
ployed by the promoters of Il mining
enterprise was compiled from the roll
of graduates of 400 colleges and. that it
contained the names of 100000 potential
dupes is a remainder of Horace Gree
ley's classification of college graduates
as horned cattle
The evidence at the trial of the pro-
motors indicates that a higher educa-
ton is no barrier against the wiles of
clever men. The poet Pope says that a
little learning is dangerous thing,
but in modern times it is often dem
onstrated that a great deal of learning,
associated with cupidity, is equally
dangerous. .s-sgsz. -
| The literature sent out to the COL
lege graduates was high grade in form
and style. There were no split infini-
tives, the verbs never got fused up
with the ,adverbs,' and the lure of the
golden bait was decorated with a polish
such as only a finished scholar could
appreciate, In short, the enterprise was
must also be de luxe. We shall not
withhold sympathy from those who
swallowed hook, line and sinker, vet
with difficulty we repress u feeling
that they almost deserved to be hooked.
Boston Globe.
LET US STICK TO THE FACTS.
On the subject of the white slave
traffic" the average of journalistic
veracity in England. if not in this
country, seems to us now at its low
est point.
So far as our observation goes, there
seems to be no statement about the
traffic too absurd to be printed. We
have read all the cables faithfully, and
each cable from London on this sub
ject seems little more exaggerated,
a little more incredible, than the pre-
vious one.
We are asked to believe, for exam
pie, that as soon as the whipping post
bill' passed the house of comm ons,
1.-The coast trains were filled with
panic-stricken white SlaverS seeking
to leave the country
Without a particle of sympathy for
the white SLAYER" but DESTROYS of
preserving clear sense of the facts,
we ask how it is possible for the ,"ye1-
low journals of London to know that
the men and women who fill the trains
bound for the coast are white slav-
ers'' or not. Are We to understand
that the average white SLAYER" wears
a badge or some tell-tale sign? If
so, why has he not been arrested? Are
we not compelled. rather, to conclude
that this was written down in jour-
nalistic hysteia and is without sub
stantial foundation Chicago Post
PRODUCING. BOY BANDITS.
Even when regarded sport,
catching boy bandits leaves much to
be desired It would be, of course,
better for all concerned if there were
no boy bandits to be caught.
Modern conditions in Americau
cities are primarily responsible for
boy bandits. The conditions will have
to be reformed. The idle boy with no
inclination to engage in useful work
and therefore no pride in craftsman
ship, must be eliminated from the So
cial fabric.
The industry of training boy bandits
to provide dangerous sport for the po-
lice is not worth While. 1t is better
to train useful young men for life
of productive effort.
Chicago wants vocational schools in
order that it may go out of the bust
ness of producing boy bandits.-Chi-
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'teresting If sometimes dfsagreeable ne
cessity. There We're only four houses
In the village at which the shipwreeked
men had arrived, and Westrell knew IL
he was to live through the winter ne
must live as the Eskimos lived A
real snow house was built, and for sew
erai months the party ate raw meat
and obtained drinking water by melt
ing snow over blubber fire. Seal and
walrus meat was their mainstay. When
sealed up, and every one huddled round
the fire.
Il found these Eslzimos good hearted,
everything to make me comfortable,
interpreters. Often of an evening, al
the day. we all assembled in the largest
hut and spent some hours singing ana
dancing When the weather permitted,
walrus hunts were organized. and IN
the early days of the winter hundreds
of the animals could be seen lying
asleep on the ice
It was when the ice began to break
up. at the beginning of the following
summer, that Westrell and his COM
panions came into touch with another
schooner, and learned the reason that
their ship had disappeared. The gale
had carried her more than hundred
miles out of her course. and the amount
of ice floating about prevented her re-
turn But the walrus hunter does not
regret having spent winter with his
Eskimo friends.-London Standard.
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THE EDITORS WASTE BASKET.
If som. day the newspaper man
should print the contents of his waste
basket there would probably be a riot.
There would certainly be trouble in
many homes. arrests in some direc-
lions, shotguns in others, trouble all
around. But the patron never sees
the waste basket. He only glances at
the printed pages, complains if one Lett
ter IN fifty is upside down, growlS his
disappointment if one name in five
hundred has happened to go wrong,
KICKS because his communication,
signed TAXPAYER has been condensed
into respectable English, frowns oe-
cause the editor didn't take his advice
about publicly warning his neighbor
against throwing trash and slop in the
alley, and is generally disgruntled. He
knows his share of the waste basket,
but IL he could have one look at the
contributions made to that recepta-
Gle by his neighbors and friends, he
would be thankful for the existence
of man with sufficient intelligence
and courage not to print all he knows,
and to temper even that which he does
prjnt.-Mound Valley Herald.
A GOLDEN RULE FACTORY.
Upon reading the story of the ter
rible conditions of the working girls in
we are led to believe that if some
manufacturer would set up factorN
there and pay the girls living wage
that the people who believe in the
golden rule would buy the products
of this factory in preference to the
sweat shop goods even though they
cost little more. We've an idea
that the new factory would be called
the Golden Rule factory. that every
shirt waist turned cut by it would bear
in a conspicuous place trade mark
known of all men to be of the Golden
Rule factory, which would be a sign
that here was a garment that had been
produced in healthy surroundings and
the sister who made it had received
for it a wage that would enable her
to live in honor and decency before
the world. We've an idea that the
good women of the land would buy
these in preference to the others. We
do not believe that their conscience
would permit them to do otherwise.
1t would be an easier solution to the
labor problem of the women than the
minimum wage law.-Holton Signal
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MR. WILSON'S CREEp.

The people of the United States VIII
not be called upon to wait for MT
Wilson's inaugural address in order to
know what he intends to do as pres1-
dent. With much attention to detail
he has set forth his programme in A
book which he has just issued, entitled
1.-The New Freedom
Some Of the vital issues discussed
include the Money trust, the initiative
and referendum, the recall of judges,
the tariff and a general publication OF
politics.
Mr.. Wilson holds that the prosper
ity of the country is produced by the
people and depends upon. their energy
and hopefulness and freedom. GUAR
dams and trustees of prosperity can
not be tolerated." he says.
He admits the desirability of big
business but declares:
1.-THE trusts do not belong to the
period of infant industries. They be-
long to very recent and very sophis-
ticated age, when men knew what they
wanted and knew how to get IL oS
the favor of the government.
II take my stand absolutely, here
every progressive ought to take his
stand, on the proposition that private
MONOPOLY is indefensible and intoler-
able. And there L will fight my pat
tie. And 1 know how to fight it.
On the initiative, referendum. anu
recall he writes as follows:
81 believe that we are on the eve OIL
recovering some of the most impor-
tant prerogatives of free people,
and that the initiative and referendum
are playing a great part in that re-
coyery,
eve have got to have key TO the
door of our own house The initiative
and referendum and the recall afford
such a kew to our own premises. II
tho neonle inside the house Will run
tho Mace as we want it run they may
s+av inside and we will keep the latch
kevs in orr pockets If they do not
we shall have to re-enter on posses
sion.
s.I myself have never been in favor
of the recall of judges. Not because
some Judges have not deserved to De
recalled. That isn't the point. Inc
point is that the recall of Judges Is
treating the symptom instead OF the
disease. The disease lies deeper-'n
the region where these men get their
nominations, and if you can recover
for the people the selecting of judges
you will not have to trouble about
their recall Selection is of more rad
ical consequence than election"
On the question of the tariff he de-
cIares his purpose to cut the special
privileges out of the system.
1t is a big task that Mr.. Wilson has
set for himself. His views will meet
the approval of a large number OF
people in all parties and with politics
out of the way he might succeed he
may do so in defiance of politics.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
from the Philadelphia Record.


Don't give yourself away The world
takes a man at his own valuation.
-Iisery loves company. and the. worst CT
it is love always finds a way. 80
The fellow who cuts off his nose To spite
his face can't very well blow about it
ANY man can. lie. but it takes sconsta r. T
practice TO get away with it successfully
You might as well give the devil his
due. He gets up pretty early to get l.
anyhow.
No man is in business for his health
but the doctor is in business for Other.
peoples
Wnen a woman is ill she always looks;
as though she feels worse that she feels
she looks.
pessimist may be either a man WHO
has been disappointed in love or disa
pointed in marriage.
When. failure comes along and upsets
our plans, it isn't every man who can
save few chunks of hope for the future
Blobbs-"Did you ever know anybody
so hard to please that fellow Bjones -
Siobbs-'Only college graduate looking
for his first job.
Extremes meet quoted the Wise Guy.
Yes. but they seldom speak they pass
by, added the Simple Mug
Those women who claim that the
turkey trot is little better than huggirg
have evidently never been Rugged
Having dallied with experience, it ism t
every man who can take the middle
ground between the cynic and the fool
+ Cynicus-"Why do you intend TO eloEe
with her instead of having a wedding
Sillicuss--Oh. just because it's more
fun Cynicus-"well perhaps you are
right Get all the fun out of it while
you can
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.AYHAWKER .OTy

The Concordia Blade Chronicles the
arrest of a citizen for selling liquor
on three counts
The meadow lark has selected OF
tawa as the first place to alight accord
ing to the Republic.
A lot of Kansas men who came to
the legislature to do and dare are ask
ing favors now and wishing they were
home.
1t might be well to offer prize 10
some bogus check man who has not
operated in either Lawrence or Man
haitian.
Don't criticise the couple who ran
away and left ten children at Waka-
rusa.. Wakarusa is good place for
children.
Another blow at the Kansas national
guard has been struck at Clay Center.
The business men refuse to employ
members of the organization.
The Emporia Gazette in announcing
a visit of a subscriber conveys the in
teresting information that he lives four
and one-fourth miles southeast of the
city
The Great Bend man who sold a
wagon load of alfalfa seed for $1,000
will probably refuse to believe there S
any disgrace to being called a hay
seed"
When a man drinks beer lie is told
by his wife he smells like a brewery.
The Kansas preacher who said he
would rather drink ink than beer
probably sought a fountain pen odor.
The fact that the old cannon at the
Agricultural college have been thrown
into the trash heap to make room for
the hogs leads the Mercury to repeat
that 1.-THE pen is mightier than the
sword
A news note and comment, by Sun
ny Jim,'' the North Side correspondent
of the Jennings Echo. T. K. Hill and
Wilfred Hagan were manufa ct.Irin g
rope last week. Western Kansas men
can make anything-even money
(neXt year,
"A man employed in a downtown
cafe had a queer thing happen to him,
while he was out on an extended jam
boree,'' says the Mania ttan Nationalist.
when he regained a normal condi-
ton, he discovered that his false teeth
had been lost somewhere
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There are some people in this world
who fail of their highest usefulness to
themselves and others because they
never plan ahead, never bring the
power of forethought to bear on the
problems and critical situations in
their lives.
And there are other people in the
world who fail because they plan too
much.
"Oh, dear. don't know what to do"
cried an unhappy young woman, whom
circumstances had driven into a cor
ner. Il don't know which way to
turn. 1 feel as If my life were a
terrible tangle, and every move I
made only tangled it up the more"
Then why not try letting it alone,
dearie," said an older woman, gently.
1--WE found out that sometimes If you
do that, time and circumstances slow
| ly untangle things for you, and by
and by you wake up some morning
and find everything all coming
straight. If you've done all you can,
dear, don't worry. just let it go Mt
that and give time a chance"
There are troubled moments in all
our lives when we see plainly that the
only thing to do is to rise and cut
the gordian knot of our troubles with
some prompt, decisive action which
| to do.
And then there are other times
when we can not see anything plainly;
when pitfalls seem to be on all sides
when life has become so complicated
and so tangled that we are sick and
weary of the whole business, and
when we can not cut the gordian knot
! because we have no sword. And these
moments are infinitely harder than
those which demand action, for ac-
ton. however hard and unpleasant. is
ALWAYS relief.
But courage, comrade, don't be ut
terly discouraged Remember that
there is still one course left to you
you can wait and see what time and
| the fl;Ix of circumstances will do for
| you. And as the wise friend prom
| Used, some morning you may wake up
! and find that everything is coming
out quite straight. 1t has often hap
pened so to me. And if you will look
| back on your own life I think you find
| it has been so with you in the past.
I'VE are never without a pilot"
says Emerson. When we know not
how to steer and dare not hoist a
sail, we can always drift. The cur
rent knows the way if we do not"
1t is a beautiful thought If the
present is one of those times when
the mists hang thick and puzzling,
and you can not sight land no mat
ter how eagerly you strain your eyes,
can you not rest yourself on that, and
wait?
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HUA0R or THE Dry

A South Side man who is just recover
ing from severe illness had just return
ed home from his first trip downtown
did you meet any of your friends?'' his
wife asked. Yes, and it's odd how they
differ in their opinions" said the con-
vaIescent. Differ, how?" well Brown
says7that l look like a new man, while
self again."-Y oungstown Telegram.
Gems of Great Price.-The weary-look-
ing man gazed undoubtedly into the win
dow of the jewelry establishment. Now
and then he would turn and look longing
" at the window of the grocery store
across the street Il just can't make up
or an egg for her present, he sighed
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Are YOU on friendly terms with your
neighbor in the apartments?" We'll, no.
She's rather formal Always sends her
card when she wishes to borrow flour,
and if she wants both flour and sugar she
sends two cards. "-Cheyenne Leader.
,en .aThat so? Howl She's decid-
ed to do the work herself detroit Free
Press
Too Rad-..AIy hair is troubled with an
acute form of ambition In what way?"
s.It paws no attention to the fact that
there is always room at the top'-Boston
Record.
Regular Meal.-"He eagerly swallowed
every word she bestowed on him, he fec
upon her every look, he lived upon the
smiles she gave him. Thats what L
call an aII-consuming passion?'-Judge.
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WILDERNESS.

Within white walls garden lay,
Close-hid from all who walked that way,
Its sheltered sweetness seen of none
Save the wand ring moon and the march
ing sun.
The high winds Travelled overhead:
They barely shook the roses mead
Or bowed the lily's stalk.
And just where flower-edged walk met
A fountain whispered like child,
While the erowding blossoms listened
and smiled,
Breathed and smiled.
Each evening, in the aftermath
OF and gold, along the path
A woman came to linger where
The fountain murmured its ehlld-Volce
prayer
But the wild wind that Travelled high
Beat on her heart as it passed by
Sobbing name she knew
The flowers paled to deadly hue,
And the fountain muttered like the sea
Or drifting rain on a barren lea
A haunted lea.
-Hildegarde Hawthorne, in Everybody s.
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senator Dayis's state insurance bill
NAV not be founded on sound financial
principles OF accepted mortanty tables
but the idea is in line with the thought
of the age. The tendency is more
toward the socialistic plan of having
everything that concerns the entire conn
munity managed by. the state or the
municipality. Legislation of this kind
probably would be followed by state
FIRE insurance. In that case when a
mans house burned down the neigh
bors would not be called upon for sub
scriptions as is frequently the case.
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THE pENDULUM SWINGS BACK.

Professor Irving Fisher OF yale mas
attacked the sacred gold dollar. he
blames it for the high cost of living.
EIts unchangeableness once pointed to
as a. virtue of the highest order now
is declared a misdemeanor if not
crime.
Its weight remains the same Whlle
it's purchasing price does not, ne de-
clares. Further, he adds, that IN the
past 5 years the gold dollars pur-
chasing price has decreased one-th1rd
Professor Fisher says that if we have
some way of knowing how much
prices have. risen we can keep the
purchasing power of our dollar fixed
bv adding to it the number of grains
of gold necessary to keep it always
buying the same amount of commodi-
ties.
few years ago when Colonel
Bryan and the Populists were telling
the country that the low prices of
commodities were due to the too great
purchasing power of the gold dollar
they were hooted by the political
economists If Professor Fisher is
right now, the Populists were right
then. 1t is a rule which works both
ways
The fact is that the old idea of the
immutability of gold as a basis of
values has been exploded. It's value is
regulated largely by supply and de-
mand like everything else. Increased
production has lessened the purchas-
ing power of gold. AS money goes
down, commodities 'go up.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

from the New York Press.
-,eing in love never made anybody a
reputation for sanity.
Halos just naturally cluster around a
man with a big bank balance.
A girl is never afraid to flirt with a
man unless he isn't dangerous.
A man can begin to get pretty fond OF
his wife if she's far enough away on a
visit.
Unless the women in mans family
spoil him they seem to him mighty
selfish.
A man hates so much to show pride
about his brains that he does it about his
whiskers.
Most men are so afraid of saving money
they'll ride in taxicabs If they can't get
rid of it any other way.
One thing makes girl glad she isn't 4
man is she could be only one, but she can
run half a dozen of them.
A woman with bulging ankles seensc
more afraid of having them seen than ole
without them is of a hole in her stock
ing