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

when I found out that it was being cam
vassed that he had played unfair"
they go together. each taking one side of
the road and joining between times to
and Nat was delighted. II don't see why
a girl wants to study law, all the same, -
he said. but Mag didn't answer.
one of the farm houses. They were both
tired.
II will stay at a farm house for the
night" said Mag, and then won't both
Nat was disappointed, though he knew
that the work would be more profitable il
he had the field to himself.
Couldn'e We go on together" he asked,
feedng himself dangerously near a. decIar-
alton which he had imagined to himself a
lege. 1T was funny how you happened
to hit on the same neighborhood."
happened to be here, Nat" she said. But
how it happened'
TT was because I found out that you
were coming this way. Steve Tilden told
Nat was very much disconnected. Mag.
aid -7ou want to cut me out of this ter
No. said Mag. lit wasn't that, either.
You know you wouldn't say good-by to
you thought when you saw me with
Steve, and 1 wanted to find you and tell
made this explanation with the self-assur-
ance that she had gained from being the
prettiest and most popular girl in a CO.
educational college for four years. Il am
not at all sure that 1 am going to study
law, Nat
II am not at all sure that am; either.
now said Nat. Mag, if buckle down
to business right away-start in at that
job my uncle offered me-if L did that,
couldn't we be married? 1 would work
my fingers off,
And then Mag crept close to his side in
the roadside. with the knapsacks of mos
quiI>-kil between them.-(Copyrlght 1873
bv the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.l
1t costs the average man a lot to be
popular.
Hope is an excellent tonic, but 1t makes
poor diet.
Some talking machines are made, but
the majority are born.
A baby that isn'teboss around the house
doesn't amount to much.
Some men are so small that two for
five cigar is too big for them.
When man acquires g. peck of trouble
1t looks to him like busheI and half
A sensible man is one who figures out
how he is going to let go before taking
hold.
Many a mans cordial handshake is due
to the fact that he needs that dollar in
your pocket.
Often a man has lot of good traits
that you would never suspect il he didn' t
tell you about them.
He is a rich man who can buy wearing
apparel for seven grown daughters with
out missing the money.
Summer engagements are short because
the young mans two weeks advance sal
airy doesn't last long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-08
LOVE OF life

Love you not the tall trees spreading wide
their branches
Cooling with their green shade the sunny
days Of June?
Love you not the little bird lost among
the leaflets,
Dreamily repeating a quaint, brief time?
Is there not joy in the waste windy
places:
Is there not a song by the long dusty
way?
Is there not glory in the sudden hour
of struggle;
Is there not a peace in the long quiet
day?
Love you not the meadows with the deep
lush grasses;
Love you not the cloud-flocks noiseless In
their flight?
Love you not the cool wind that stirs
to meet the sunrise;
Love you not the stiffness OF the warm
summer night?
Have you ever wept with grief that
slowly passes,
Have you never laughed when JOY goes
running by?
Know you not the peace of rest that
follows labor?-
You have not learnt to live, then; how
you dare to die?
-Tertius van Dyke in the August Scr1b-
ner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-08
GLOSE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

There seems to be no way TO quarantine
the bores.
II you are looking for trouble it is also
looking for you.
1t takes more than a cauliflower ear to
make fighter champ
good many people who don't belong
to the trusts own motor cars.
Unless one falls on us, no aeroplane shall
figure in our obituary.
A burglar probably is in line for the
greatest run of disappointment.
What has become of the o. f. man who
could tell time by the sun?
Every man spends m. or l. time hunting
for something he can't find
The car of Russia has the largest in
come, and continues to wear whskers.
Skirts are to be narrower this fall, they
say, but how can they tell till they try-y.
Generally speaking, those who don't
handle hammer manipulate a mush
ladle.
Where. there is a will there's a way and
frequently several ablebodied attorneys.
Most people are willing to help you to
the extent of telling you how to run your
business.
What has become OF the frenzled finan-
cier who was going to get rich raising
Belgian hareS?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-08
AXHAWKER JOTS

Life is like a general delivery win
dow in a postoffice. thinks the James
town Optimist. You have to keer
right on asking whether you get any
thing or not
Why are no animal dances named af-
ter the donkey? asks the Mound Val
ley Herald. and it suggests: Perhaps
it is because that animal is noted more
for stupidity than viciousness.
We presume, says Mack Gretchen in
his Sedgwick Paragraph, that when
the horn is sounded on the great judg-
ment day, from force of habit the first
announcement will be that the Ladies'
Aid society will serve ice cream and
cake.
The last count gives it that there
are about 80 widows in this town, says
the Americas Greeting. There are also
about the same number of widowers.
With the present high price of coal and
hard winter approaching why, the
Greeting demands, is it necessary to
keep up 60 fires to keep them warm
when 80 would answer the purpose just
as we'll?
Related by the Manhattan National
list: A Kansas mother who takes a
great deal of interest in the affairs
of her beautiful daughter said to her
the other morning: Did Wilbur kiss
you last night?" With smile of in
telligence, Hazel sweetly replied:
Mother do you suppose Wilbur came
all the way from Garnett to hear me
play the piano?''
The Leroy Reporter tells of a negro
who was carrying an armful of school
books and someone asked him: Going
to SCHOOL," Yes sab" DO you study
all those books?" mo sab; dey's me
brudder's, Use a ignorant kind er mig
ger side him, boss. Yer just orter see
dat niger figgerin'. He has gone and
ciphered clean through addition, par
tision. distraction, abomination, justi-
f1cation, creation, amputation and
adoption"
Projected on the screen by the Linds-
borg News Vitascope: The scales on
which trouble is weighed never give
short measure. -. Many a woman
who claims to have made her husband
has no just cause to feel proud of her
handiwork. Whenever we hear
woman boast that her husband had
to choose between her and some of his
habits when it came to the marrying
proposition we know she is bluffing
Chances are he chose both.
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MORE SHIPS THAN EVER.

The worlds equipment for ocean
transportation is now increasing at
more rapid pace than at any time
since men first began to go down to
the sea in ships, says Edward Neville
Vose in the August worlds Work.
Since June, 1909, L1oyd's Register of
Shipping shows an almost uninter-
rupted succession of advances in the
amount of gross tonnage under con-
struction in Great Britain. In the
second quarter of 1911 all previous
records for the United Kingdom were
surpassed, the total reported being
considerably more than 1,450,000
tons Then came a quarter year of
slight recession, but after that the
rate of production increased even
more rapidly than before, and has
continued to do so without a single
interruption to the present time. The
record for the first quarter of 1913
showed that, excluding warships,
there were 563 vessels of 2,06S.6s
tons gross register then under con-
struction in British shipyards. an in
crease of $4,000 tons over the first
quarter, and $4,000 tons more than
were under construction at the close
of the corresponding quarter the year
before.
This unprecedented increase in
shipbuilding is reflected in the returns
from every part of the world. Ac-
cording to Lloyd's Annual Summary
of Shipbuilding, the worlds output of
new tonnage, exclusive of warships,
last year was 1,719 vessels of 2,9O1,-
769 tons gross. OF this total the
United Kingdom supplied 1,73S,514
tons-a tonnage only twice surpassed,
in 1906 and in 1911. The output in
Germany amounted to 375, 317 tons,
which was $1,000 tons more than the
previous high record for that coun-
try-set in 1906. The tonnage re-
ported for the United States was 2S4,-
223 tons, an increase of 10000 tons
over the previous year, although
much below the totals for nine of the
years since 1900. The French returns,
110,734 tons, showed a decrease of
nearly 5000 tons from the returns
of 1911, but surpassed all previous
years except 1900, 1901 and 1902.
The production in Holland was 3d.
439 tons, an increase of more than
1000 tons as compared with 1911, and
the highest total ever recorded for
that country. The 57,755 tons turned
out in the shipyards of Japan were
an increase of $4,000 tons over the
year before, and surpassed all pre-
vious totals except those for 1907 and
1908. The 5O.255 tons completed in
Norway were a gain of $1,000 tons
over 1911, although the record was
exceeded in the years from 1904 to
1908. The 3s,s21 tons of Austria
Hungary and S4,79O tons of the Brit
ish colonies surpassed all previous rec
ords, as did the 60.622 reported for
| other countries" and the &c, 103 tons
for Denmark and the 25,196 tons for
| Italy exceeded recent years, although
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-08
EVENING CHAT
Fitness I'm Fashions.
BY RUTH CAMERON


"a place for everything and every
thing in it's place." is a proverb
which is usually applied solely to
order in the home. Now I have a
new, and what I think is just as good
an application for it. And that is to
order and fitness in fashions.
You don't see just what I mean?
Very we'll, then, the next time you
walk down the street or ride on The
trolley car, please notice how many
women you see with small faces and
disproportionately big hats. Large
hats with graceful, sweeping curves,
are certainly very pretty and arts
tic, but don't you think they lose all
their beauty when they are placed on
the wrong head?
The fashion of wearing collarleSs
gowns and blouses even on the street,
is certainly an effective style for the
woman whose full, white throat can
stand the sharp line of a dark coat
against it. But for the woman with
the scraggly, yellow neck it is the most
unbecOming fashion possible. And vet
the latter lady bares her scraggly
throat to the keenness of winter winds
never occurred to her that "a place
for everything and everything in its
place" might be applied to fashions
as we'll as to homes and offices.
But the thin woman is not by any
means the only one who offends the
law of fitness in dressing. The ac-
Gordon plating which is SO strongly
in favor just now is an exquisite
thing when worn by slim people, but
could anything be more absurd than
to see a fat woman making herself
look still larger by wearing an ac-
Gordon plated gown? And yet that
is what we see everywhere.
Hunters pink in other words,
crude, bright red, is one of the colors
that is going to be much worn this
season. And despite its exceedingly
trying quality. 1 can prophesy with
sad surety that 1t is going to be worn
by young and old, sallow and clear
skinned, plain ana pre,Ly, most of all,
of course, by those who most should
shun it.
The persistency with which we ad-
mire and wear styles which are SIM
ply impossible for US is really pa
thetic. ! suppose it is partly due to
the psychological fact that we are
apt to admire our opposites and con-
sequeptly to like the style which har-
monies with them and fights with
us.
Nothing is beautiful unless it is also
suitable.
Every woman who learns that
principle and dresses by it has a
mighty good chance of being well
dressed.
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Chinese "Knew the English. >,

An Englishman who was appointed to an
important post in China got married soon
after. Among the recipients of the usual
little cardboard boxes containing a piece
of wedding cake was a Chinese merchant
with whom the bridegroom had an out
standing account for goods supplied. After
the honeymoon one of the first persons
the newly welded husband met was his
Celestial creditor.
And how did you like the cake?'' said
the Enslishman, Iaughingly, after the
usual congratulations
"Ah hap' returned the Chinaman with
a cunning leer, me no such big fool to
eat him. sab: Me put cakee in fire. Burn
"On, that's too badr" said the English
man, very much hurt. You might have
tasted it at least, out Of compliment to
my wife and myself. Why didn't your
Me too clute, sah," said the Celestial.
with the same cunning smile. You owe
me monee. sab; sendee poison cakee; 1
eat him; die; you no payee up. Houp-
la! He! hei he! know you Ing1eeshv'-
London Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-08
THE WATER REPORT.
City's Profits Were $4,000 for Month
of July.

The July disbursements of the water
company were a little over $4,000 while
the receipts were upwards of $4,000,
according to the monthly report filed
with Mayor Cofran by f. L. Stevens,
assistant superintendent and cashier OF
the company, today. The big item in
disbursements was for construction,
which cost for the month a total OF
81 2o4 GA During the month more than
SZ3 900 of the sinking fund was used in
the purchase of city bonds, leaving only
a small balance in that fund. The de-
partment now has city bonds on hand
in the sum of $65, 5000
The statement shows a balance of
Sal S99. SO in the general fund, and of
sc, 613.38 in the interest fund. The ball
ance in the sinking fund, after the pur-
chase of bonds, is only $221.0S. Receipts
from meter readings during the month
amounted to $9,S75.31.
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BY THE WY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Pup love-" says Hondo Murphy, lis
a boob disease, like whooping cough
and measles, bat doesn't, as a rule,
last as long or leave any sore spots.
over twenty years ago caught it.
L mad quit school two years before,
not because my education-was COM
pleted, but because was big enough
to earn wages and there were no child
labor laws in that fair land. After
this long vacation, Il got another
chance by breaking a favorite arm in
the line of dollar-a-day duty. and
took post graduate course of three
weeks.
Across the aisle from me sat a
littel brown-eyed beauty. She was not
quite land in a land where 80
year old grandmothers are common
occurrences. 1t was a mutual case,
and before the arm was out of splints
it was around the little peach each
evening, as We rode in a rickety road
cart behind a moth-eaten pony. the
GATE was set two years hence. Every
thing was settled. The case made 4
man of the 15-year-old boob-accord-
ing to the man standard of that land.
He began to tote a Smithenwesson .SS
and dare large, mature he-persons to
'tromp on his shadder.' This attitude
made him hero in the eyes of the lit
tie maid. BY picking a fuss with her
family and starting an embryo feud,
he became strong as an onion with
her. He should and would have been
potted-were it not for the fact that
he stayed so close to the girl during
the open season that it would be hard
to shoot him without CHANGING fun
eral in her own family.
Game then a time when the swain
did journey long way thence IN
search of better wages and strange ad-
ventures. Vows were renewed. The
cleanest case of pup-love on record
closed with tears and promises. The
boob went his way into the fab moth
and two years later HE CAME
BACK!
But his pup-love has shrunken to
mild curiosity to see the girl-and
no did; she weighed about--wen,
wouldn't care to say what she
weighed about but she looked
shade under Il she was, and looked
rs at it's worst. She carried over one
hip baby as dirty as an old dish rag,
and chewed a snuff stick with vigor
worthy of better purpose. And with
pride she introduced me to TIA
cadaverous, hook wormous specimen
of nothing much about 80 years old.
And this-THIS was the little
beauty, who. two years before had
ridden with me through the cool of the
evening, and sung, in sweet, child
ish treble with an adnoidous tint:
"'Faw-aw- -way,-be-yon' thuh
staw-lit skies,-
When thuh--love-light nevah-
neVdn UleS,
Theh is-za man Shun----
filed with de-light-
Sweet Heavily Home so
br-r-right.'
There should be some ordinance
regulating the COOK who slips up be-
hind a nervous man and coughs like
a klaxon auto horn.
Now that the Democratic admins
tration has been charged with all
other crimes. let's charge 'em with the
weather. That ought to hold them for
a moment It's a worse crime, if
possible, than firing bull-m ooser out
of state job. ~ s, = -
We refuse to endorse the new school
superintendent : until we find out
whether or not'he has a permit from
Dodd CASTOR to wear an Albertreid
A French aviator is said to be eight
million dollars in debt. That's pretty !!
strong even for a 1nigh-f1ier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-08
VIEWING THE DoUGHNUTs HOLE

VIEWING THE DOUGHNUTS HOLE.
Too many Kansans appear to have
their eyes fixed just now exclusively
on the hole in the doughnut. They
overlook entirely the good stuff that
encircles it. They are the ones who see
nothing but particularly hard times
ahead in the Sunflower state because
of the present dry weather. 1.-THE cost
of living will be higher than ever in
Kansas" they mourn. But they over
look the fact that the cost of living in
Kansas is far from being regulated
entirely by the agricultural prosperity
of the state.
Incredible though it may seem to
some Kansans, the aggregate corn
crop that is likely to be harvested
throughout the country this year will
assume big proportions. No corn pro-
duction records will be broken. But
the crop promises to be better than the
ten year average: Similar conditions
prevail with other crops that give
prospect of not doing very we'll in
Kansas because of lack of rain. In
deed. the crop statistics available show
that the nation will do fine in the
agricultural line. And because this is
true the cost of living in Kansas Will
1t is the total productivity of the ma
ton that regulates the cost of living,
as far as the law of supply and de-
mand prevails, and not what any one
state may raise or fail to raise. And
the conditions that have blighted
some of the Kansas crops have not
been general all over the country.
Then, too, the situation in Kansas is
NEARLY had of the
calamity howlers would paint it. They
seem to lose sight of the fact that
100000 bushels of wheat were
raised here this year. They ignore the
fact that the continued dry spell which
has prevailed in some sections of the
state has not been general throughout
the entire commonwealth.
OF course, there are many kansans
who will be pressed hard by the
drouth They include the agricultur-
lists who have a habit Of putting all
their eggs in one basket, who stake
their all on a single crop, and who are
dependent wholly on this years har-
vest But their number is small when
with the bulk of the popula-
ton. Rather fat years have been fol- |
lowing each other continuously of late
in Kansas Its people, generally |
speaking. are in excellent shape to
withstand the ravages of a little |
drouth.
There won't be any hard times in !
Kansas in the Immediate future unless !
hard times develop in all other sec |
tons of the country. And in the event |
Of such a direful happening, it will not
be due to the drouth in Kansas and in /
some agricultural sections of nearby |
states 1t will not be due to anything |
that savors of a poor agricultural /!
showing, taking the country as a whole, |
because, as stated, the yields of the |
fields this year in the aggregate will |
be fairly good. Other reasons will |
provide the cause.
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QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
TF'rom the PhiIadelphfa RECORD.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Forget the weather-think of Mexico!
You can't burn your money and collect
insurance on it.
1t doesn't improve the work of juggler
to daily with a jug.
No man is really a plutocrat until he
can buy title for his daughter.
The fellow who is always in a hurry
doesn't necessarily accomplish the most.
man is never too old to learn, but
sometimes he is to young to realize it.
It easy to love your neighbors as your
self If they mind their own business
There is time in every mans life when
ne realizes what a chump he once was.
Nell-"Mis Oldgirl is rather up-to-date.
isn't she?" Believes. in everything
except her birthday"
& ,omer-"You say this alarm clock is
81 81 cents more than the other WAT is the
guaranteed to go off every time you set
It Customer (gleefully)-''Wrap it up,
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CAR men PICNIC.
Topeka Street Railway Employees to
Have Fun at Gage Park.

The employees of the Topeka Street
Railway company will hold a picnic
in Gage park August 20. 1t is planned
to be an all-day and evening affaira
SO all employees will have an oppor-
tunity to attend.
Four automobiles and an auto truck
will take the picnickers from the street
cars at Tenth street and convey them
to the park.
To provide for the lighting of the
park in the evening arrangements are
underway to borrow 16 large locomotive
headlights from the Santa Fe COM
pany.
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LOSE FIRST CASE.
Chicago PoIicewOmen's First Arrest
Ends in AcquittaI.

Chicago, Aug. s.-A woman's tears
today cost Chicago's policewomen
their FIRST case.
The defendant was Mrs. Nellie Cam
eron, actress, who was arrested last
night by Officers Margaret Butler and
Margaret Wilson on a charge of dis
orderly conduct Policewoman Butler
told Municipal Judge Rafferty, that
she saw Mrs. Cameron accost three or
four men and that to all appearances
she had been drinking
Mrs. Cameron cried. Between sobs
the magistrate extracted from her the
information that she had taken LIQUOR
to relieve rheumatism. The woman
Denied the other accusation, and the
Judge dismissed the case.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

People who trust to their memories
are always getting into hot water.
10 + s%
Blaming the other fellow is a sure
way to attract suspicion to yourself.
q p d
A man wastes a whole lot of men
tai energy in trying to understand a
woman.
- - %
All investments are. of the. paying
variety, but not always to the persons
who make them.
j. % ID
Most men are such ugly looking
things, it's small wonder the women
have developed the habit of shutting
their eyes when being kissed.
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