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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
SOME FACTS ABOUT CANCER.

The study of cancer in many coun-
tries is leading to the collection of
data that are of much interest. AS
frequently noted, statistics in general
seem to reveal an increase in cancer;
but whether this may not be the out
come of greater accuracy in diagnosis
is a question concerning which there
is still a difference of opinion. Obvi-
ously, on the basis of the figures and
facts now available, the solution OF
the question as to whether or not
cancer is on the increase is most diff
ficult In the future the conditions
for reliable comparisons will be more
satisfactory.
The reports on cancer statistics
coming from different countries are
sometimes so much at variance as to
suggest either that the mode of life
and external conditions must play a
large part in cancer or that the
statistics given do not represent the
true state of affairs. One example of
this discrepancy may be cited. II is
generally believed that cancer affects
women much more frequently than
men. Statistics from England and
other countries indicate that it is so;
but in Norway this does not seem TO
be the case.
Soegaard's recent analysis of the
statistics gathered in Norway by the
Norwegian cancer committee shows a
greater number of men to have can
Ger than women. The difference in
favor of men is not large-of 37,O46
deaths from cancer during 1S65-1S95.
1S,413 were in men and 1858 in
women, who constitute 51.5 per cent
of the Norwegian population-but the
point is that here the conditions noted
in many other countries appear to be
reversed. The Norwegian statistics
also show a preponderance of cancer
of the stomach, which is not the case
in statistics from other countries. In
series of 9,52S deaths from cancer,
$3.50, or 62.9 per cent, were caused
by cancer of the stomach. For the
ten years 1S96-19O7 following the
period covered by this series, there
were 1928 deaths in Norway due to
cancer, of which 1882, or $50 per
cent, were from cancer of the stom-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09

ach. In the province of Nordland
there were 1895 deaths from cancer
during 1ss6-19O7,' of which 913. or
1873 per cent, were from gastric can
Ger.
The statistics from Norway, eYi-
IDENTIFY gathered with real care and
under favorable conditions, differ
from results elsewhere; they show a
greater frequency of cancer in men
and a greater frequency of cancer of
the stomach. Either statistics are at
fault or social and other conditions
play a decisive part in the develop
ment of cancer If the latter is the
case, which seems reasonable enough,
the fundamental importance of ac-
curate' statistical studies of cancer UNI
der different conditions is self evident.
If these studies reveal that in certain
countries, communities or districts
there prevails cancer of certain Or
gans or of certain types then, says
the Journal of the American Medical
Association, the next step would be to
discover and eliminate the conditions
in which the prevalence depends.
There is great need in this country
for the accurate study of cancer from
this angle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
AXHAWKER JOTy

As the Spring Hill New Era says:
The man who complains that his ship
does not come in is the man who failed
to launch one.
According to Wild Goose, the Up Dry
Creek reporter for the Augusta Journal,
that creek is verifying its name at
present. One can walk for five miles
in it's bed.
Guy Payne has taken a vacation,
reports the Sharon Springs Western
Times, land will spend a few days IN
the mountains hunting. for trout,
Maybe he will also do little fishing
for bear.
The ways of justice are queer, says
the Salina Union. woman who drew
four months in Jail here for murder
ing her husband will probably get sew
eral years in the penitentiary for
selling liquor.
Some Idle Thoughts" by Maria
Peacock of the Leavenworth Times:
Lemons come high this year in all but
matrimonial markets. You
can't tell how much rabbit there is in
mans disposition by looking at his
ears. RakeS are often reSpon-
sible for the accumulation of grass
widows. -. Money talks pretty loud
and SO do many who have but newly ac-
quired it. The majority of
wives imagine that their husbands will
never fully appreciate them until after
they are dead.
Told by the Ness County News: At a
certain Sunday school one afternoon
the superintendent driven to distrac-
ton by the noise from a class of par
ticularly unruly boys, got on a chair
and looked over the partition dividing
the two rooms to see who the Offend
ers were. Seeing one boy, taller than
the rest, talking a good DEAL leaned
over, seized him by the collar, lifted
him onto a chair. saying, Now be
quiet. He resumed his lesson for
about a quarter of an hour when a
small head appeared, and a meek voice
said: Please. sir, you've got our
teacher
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09

flash in and out of the trees. Then he
turned to his horse and rode away out
of the woods and across the hill. A
subtle sweet assurance that he would
indeed follow the trail to the beauti-
ful gypsy set his pulses afire. He de-
termined that he would go the next
day to the girl in the city and tell her
that he was only too glad to forfeit
his part in the vast estate of her
uncle, for he had seen face that he
meant to follow to the end of the
world. Gold was 8. great thing, but
romance when youth made the blood
all.
AS he entered the girls home in the
city the following night, he caught a
glimpse of stately, beautiful figure
in white.
IF you please, SIR said the servant
hesitatingly, you are to go into the
conservatory. Miss Robinson is wait
ing for you there"
Halfway across the drawing room
he looked down and saw a line OF
crimson rose petals on the velvet rugs
His heart throbbed painfully. They
led through the very door where the
servant was directing him. OF course
he knew that rose had been shatter-
ed and the petals dropped to the floor,
but the sight of them recalled the
pretty gypsy in the woods and he
brave6 himself for the ordeal of tell
ing the aristocratic Miss Robinson
that, although he had thought himself
in love with her through her letters,
he knew that he had been mistaken,
for his heart was in the keeping OF a
gypsy who perhaps even then waited
out under the stars for his coming.
The girl by the fountain turned
when he was announced and he look
ed at her, then rubbed his eyes.
"You?' he questioned. Were you
a gypsy yesterday in the woods?"
Yes she laughed. Its in my
blood. Every year when the sap rises
in the trees and the birds and flowers
and brooks know that the spring has
come again, I slip away, and riding in
my gaudy wagon I go back to nature
where a maid may dream dreams
Come, go gypsying with me-" he
begged, "and when we sit before the
fire in the twilight of life we may
travel on the self-same trail that leads
us to a garden of remembered things.
I love YOU
And looking down into her blue
eyes, he saw a wonderful light that
was to i1lumine his way to Already
copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
CLOSE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcEusoN GLOBE.

The sort of a dog woman keeps isn't
apt to be stolen by a boy.
Remember that the man who goes north
for the summer doesn't do iC to save his
ice bill.
lose who hold an unreasonable grudge
against lawn mowers say this has been a
delightful summer.
Opinions differ to what is common
sense. The definition depends largely on
what are your prejudices.
oeaf mute who must swear with his
hands, is somewhat handicapped in the
gentle art of putting up stove pipe.
There Is also the sort of bore who tries
to be funny and can't, when you are look
ing around for reasons why men throw
bombs
About as delegate gets there
he finds out he isn't the convention, he
imagined in the beginning.
Reports of political meetings are so
prone 10 be prejudiced that one should at
tend to learn the size of the crowd. Not,
however, that we regard that as sufficient
inducement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
KANSAS COAAENT
NOW AND THEN

Distance probably never lends such
great enchantment to the view as when
one sees across it looking backward
Great writer's, painters. actors, so
many believe, have mostly been gath
cred to their fathers, and those of %
day are but feeble imitators of those
gone on before. Romance is dead and
art and letters failing, according to
these adni- ers of the ancients, and we
dwell in a sordid and commercial age.
Nothing to them seems worth while If
1t happen to be the work of man still
living to hear their plaudits and their
praise. There are others, however, who
believe in the present; who think. per-
maps, that Harrison Fisher has some
thing on Rembrandt; that George AIDE
is greater humorist than Dickens
and that other living men need not fear
comparison OF their product with that
or past performers. These will find
some satisfaction in G. K. Chesterton's
latest book, 1.-The Victorian Age in
Literature" That it may not be an
accurate estimate doesn't matter so
much; at least it tries to be, and
doesn't perch on pedestals of perfection
every writer of that golden period
Rather he approaches them as an able
critic. which he is, and finds fault when
ne feels like it. There were great
writer's in that era. but probably no
greater than several still on the Job
1t may console these latter ones to
know that they may also be Heroic fig
ures when they're dead. 1t is the way
of the world. this difference between
now and then.-Atchison Globe.
WHAT EVERY WOMAN IS LEARNING
Every woman is coming to know that
a1Vertislng has real value to her. In
oIden days, under olden conditions, store
aoverlslng was a very neglible thing. 1t
consisted of either the dull, formal an
nouneements of the conservative stores,
or OF the hysterical, misleading and
stampedlng style of advertising resort
ed to by the irresponsible stores In
neither case was advertising important to
the housewife, nor of the nature of ser
vice to her in planning her purchases.
WITHIN the three decades just past adver-
Using has evolved from these olden con-
d1tions into its present status of store
service. No worthwhile store would now
much in the scope of its usefulness IL
would be as wise to try to do business i'm
quarters Inadequate, or with no delivery
system, nor clerks. For the advertising
is as much part of store service as any
other phase of storekeeping. Women have
learned and are learning, that only stores
that are adequately advertised are able to
give real valueS-are able to compete in
value giving with other stores that adver-
tise. The store that does not advertise
neighborhood shop, to which We are
driven by necessity sometimes-always to
our loss. Women are learning that the
advertised store, selling great quantities
of goods, is able to sell them at a much
smaller per sale profit than the unadver-
from a small number of sales. This truth
makes store advertising of real import
ance to every woman-to every buyer
Junction City Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFronn the Chicago New

IF'rom the Chicago News.1
Alas that the flower of the family may
go to seed,
It makes some girls weary to do any
thing but visit.
You probably seem as cranky to others
as they seem to you.
Fools and children tell the truth at the
wrong time.
1t is task for a clever woman to man
age young man-during courtship.
How difficult to draw the line between
genius and insanity.
The honeymoon is over when the bride
discovers that she might have done bet
ter.
The amateur poet is going some when
he earns enough money with his pen to
pay for the ink.
The man who thinks he is marrying an
angel in disguise occasionally discovers
late. that the alleged disguise was per-
manent. .-ae r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
QUAKER fluctuations.
GFrom the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Duty comes before pleasure. If you
don't believe it. look in the dictionary.
Charity may begin at home, but you fire.
quently find it out when you call
1t isn't until a man approaches the top
that the world is eager to give him a
boost.
The people who are satisfied to put it
off till tomorrow generally put it off in
definitely.
Occasionally you meet a man who is so
chivalrous toward women that he Is
actually polite to his own wife,
Blobbs-''Saphedde is a man of many
parts" Slobbs-'Yes, he tries be all the
different kinds of fools at once.
The man who argues that il doesn't pay
to jump at conclusions probably makes
his mistakes in more leisurely manner
HoaX-''She says she is going to marry
an ideal man." Joax- Wen, she is en-
gagged to oculist. / suppose you might
consider him eye deal man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
EVENING CHAT.
Do You Read Advertisements?
BY RUTH CAMERON.


Do you make a regular practice of
reading the advertisements in the
newspapers and ma gazines?
Or do you regard them as neces-
sary evil. a certain amount of which
must be accepted along with your pur-
chase of news or fiction?
L am aware that the latter point of
view is held by some people, and that
they regard it as proof of their super
iority.
AS a matter of fact. it shows how
narrow minded and shortsighted they
are.
Advertisements are valuable, inter-
esting and educative reading.
In the first place, to take their most
obvious merit. they are valuable to the
man or woman who wants to get a dol
lars worth out of every dollar spent.
Did you see So-and-So's advertise
ment this morning." 1 asked a neigh
Dor of mine, who had told me she was
going to buy lingerie frock. "They
are having a special sale of their sum-
mer costumes
mo, 1 didn't see it, I never read the
sniffily; what 1 buy a newspa per for
is the news"
Now what are department store ad-
vertisenlepts but newS-the news of
what is being done in the shops?
This woman is fond of saying that
she never got a bargain. l showed her
a pair of five dollar shoes l had bought
for two dollars. pointed out to her the
trademark of a firm that does not make
anything for less than five dollars and
let her see how wonderfully they had
worn. She admitted, with the grudg-
ing air of woman convinced against
her will, that they We're a remarkable
FRO
lucky that way. l never got any such
bargain
When you obtain any good thing by
hard work or intelligent methods or pa
tient perseverance, isn't it pleasant to
have other people call it your good
luck?''
The way I picked up those shoes was
by reading the interesting news that
certain first class shoe shop was to
change it's location and as prelimi-
nary, hold a big sale.
The average woman's business is the
management of a home. One impor-
tant branch of that business is pur-
chasing. If she wants to succeed in
this part of her business she can no
more afford to neglect financial news
OF course, she will take some things
she reads there with grain of the salt
of common sense. but then, what do
we read or hear anywhere that we do
not use that salt upon?
That advertisements are interesting
and educative is not so obvious as that
they are valuable. Perhaps 1 only
speak for one in calling them so.
certainly can say that I myself enjoy
looking over the advertising pages in a
newspaper. I like to see what men are
making and selling. I like to see prog
ress as reflected in this mirror of the
worlds business. and I like to study
the way in which the advertisers make
their appeal-the psychology of the
thing.
Do you read advertisements? If YOU
never have. please give these people
who are paying so highly for a chance
to talk to you at least one or two audi
ences- Doesn't our American gospel of
the square deal' require that of you?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
HUNOR or THE DNY

Going-"Kid & Morgan are running a
summer hotel at the seashore and they
call it The Breakers Hasbin-''They
picked a good name for IL. / was there,
and they broke me.'-Judge.
Mrs. Liston Well-"Don't YOU think Mis-.
Thumpford is playing that nocturne
through too fast Mr.. A. Boardman-''Toc
fast. Good heavens madame. She can't
play it through too fast to suit me-
Puck.
Here is a story about a Pittsbure
man who was shot at by an angry
woman, who only succeeded in hit
ting his chauffeur in the Leg" Gee.
he must have been glad it wasn't a
Plain Dealer.
What is his trouble?" "Aphasia'' 81
thou. At there was woman in the case"
Judge.
This witness doesn't know what he is
talking about Very likely. He is one
of the experts in the case-"-Baltimors
American.
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Opportunities for Burbank.

Opportunities for Burbank.
No other name
To Burbank's fame
Could ever hold candle,
If that wise gent
Would but invent
A melon with a handle.
And, ah, his worth
Would know no dearth,
But stay forever vernal,
If he could make
A cob and shake
1t free from every kernel.
His fame, I'm sure,
Would be secure
If he were only growing
A rooster smart
That wouldn't start
At a. m. a-crowing.
He'd be the rage
From age to age,
Through decades without number,
Don't you think so,
If he could grow
A painless green cucumber!
Roy K. Moulton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
Enormous Fruit Loss,

California has suffered a loss to her
orange and lemon crop in the last year
that will exceed Sc, 900, Co., said r w
Killingsworth, of Vacaville, CaL at the
Willard. The freeze of last spring was
not responsible for all this loss. In fact
the figures given at that time were per-
haps a little high. for there was not so
many trees lost as expected Still the
damage was enormous. One railroad, and
that not a large one, estimated that Its
loss in freight would exceed 100000. and
if this be SO, the transcontinental roads
will lose 100000 each. The lemon crop
was damaged to even a greater extent
than the orange crop. There is no plant
that grows out of doors which is injured
SO quickly by frost, except the oleander,
and our mothers can testify to the facility
with which Jack Frost gets the oleander
have seen lemon trees after frost
that had seams in them as wide as a
woman's hand, from the top of the trunk
to the ground. 1t is this damage that has
been most serious in the California
groves.
THE damage to the orange and lemon
crops was succeeded by great injury to
other fruits from heat blasts in the last
few weeks. The heat has shriveled up
hundreds of tons of prunes, and blasted
great quantities of grapes OF course
this will not be an entire loss In the
case of prunes it will be measured large
l. by the shrinkage. but that will be suf-
ficient. "-Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
According to Uncle Abner.

No woman considers herself a
failure in life if she can dress as
good as the next one
1t seems queer, but I have never
seed a Teller with an artistic temper
ament who ever accumulated much of
a bank account.
A Teller who hires a strange kid
to do anything around the yard dur
in the baseball season shows lot Of
optimism. but burned poor judgment.
Whisky talks lot, bat it doesn't
say nothing.
Every time there is a serious auto
mobile accident the papers have to
say, IAN unidentified woman was
seen leaving the car, unhurt, directly
after the accident"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Misery may love company, but the
company seldom reciprocates.
+ > 4
All of the longevity records are I'M
doubtedly held by jokes.
+ j. J.
Even a most serious surgeon can
rightly be classed with the cutups.
4. + +
Parents are always willing to make
allowances for youth if they're not of
the cash variety.
f. + =
Opportunity's knock is usually no
more than an invitation to work more
intelligentiy and harder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
of ten cents a week or thirty cents
o month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
ont of town the State journal Will be
to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09


There are rumors of a shakeup in
the police department. A shakeup in
the police department consists of
canning such cops as are city broke
and filing their places with raw
Very raw material.
Ed Howe's travel book is the east
est, shortest route around the world,
and increases in entertaining quail
ties with each page. The best part is
from page 460 to Potato Hill; Mr..
Howe has by that time recovered from
the shock of seeing a native girl re-
move her "day-and-nfghtie' to search
for f1eas, and is in a condition to
thoroughly enjoy the shores of his
room mate on the ship, and unload a
string of good old fashioned "Globe
Sights
The open season on Autumn Leaf
poetry began a month earlier this
year, but the squash crop was short,
thus equalizing things to a certain ex-
tent.
What a farmer likes about a fair
is the agricultural displays, especially
the good old fashioned agricultural
boss races.
1t is very. refre shing indeed to sit
in an office with a temperature of
los 1a and listen to some returned
tourist tell about the snow balls he
made ON. ME-. Pixies justly celebrated
peak.
Sulzer says he is being bounded by
Iammany crooks. 1t looks more like
they had him freed, and were merely
sitting around the roots waiting for
Murphy to arrive with the axe
Some curiosity has been expressed
as to how a theatrical press agent
makes a living between May and
september. Jack Supp thinks they
move to Washington and write fluff
about congressman
Cheer up! You may expect a change
OF weather about September %. If
you live that long. If you do not. it
can't be any worse where you go.
Cranberries are quoted at $3.50 a
bushel. but when it comes to real
value, says Jack Supp, you couldn't
get $3.50 worth of cranberries in a
box car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09

Shades of Henry Clay, Daniel Web
ster, John c.. Calhoun, William NJ.
Evarts, James G. Blaine, Thomas Bay
ard, John Hay. and other distinguished
secretaries of state, who brought hon
or and dignity to that high office.
William Jennings Bryan is now being
featured as the star attraction Of a
Chautauqua tent show THAI ~ill do a
<nzen one night stands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09

Count Zeppelin's latest airship is
said to be capable of fight across the
Atlantic. But it will probably burn
or be torn from its mooring and de-
stroyed by a gale after a trial trip or
two that will demonstrate its remark
able prowess. That's the unfortunate
history of most of the counts marvel
Gus aircraft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09

Those who insist that Kansas has
been terribly hard hit by the drouth
should take a squint at the record
breaking enrollments that are being
made in the big educational institu-
tons of the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-09

Much is heard about the decision
and dispatch of British justice. But
Thaw's lawyers have finally started his
case on procedure through the Ca
madam courts that may not be con-
cluded for a couple of years
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