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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
FROM OTHER PENS
PROUD BOAST OF KANSAS.

| For threescore of years, at least,
Kansas has been in the Hmelight.
Even before it became state, and
when it's population was sparse, 1T
seemed to possess beyond any of its
sisters along the frontier, or on either
| side of it, the faculty of focusing ma
| tional attention. The original pro-
gressives of the nation founded Kan
sas, and while they may have ex-
pressed themselves from time to time
under different partisan political
banners, it cannot be truthfully said
that Kansans have at any time, even
temporarily, ceased to be original or
progressive. They are as original and
progressive today as they ever were.
The story of their triumph over the
Great American Desert has often
been told. They found Kansas tree
less and desoiate; they have made 1t
a grove and a garden; they found it
in blffalo grass; they have sown 1t
with all the golden cereals; they
found themselves on the firing line of
the great internal disturbance that
once divided the republic, they found
themselves in the vanguard of civili-
cation, they found that they must
bear the brunt of resistance to the on
ward strides of restless and migrat-
lag race, they we're confronted with
flood and drouth, with the unchecked
sweep of the Rocky Mountain hurri-
cane, with the plaques of the wilder
gagged homes-they passed through it
all with fortitude, and they have
come out of it all with victory.
Today Kansas is contented, enlight-
ened, magnificent producer, lend
er rather than a borrower, the home
of universities, colleges, seminaries,
academies, schools; the friend of Gull
ture, the patron of the automobile,
land of handsome farm houses and
big barns, and, as has been its custom
at intervals through all its years, to-
day it is boasting This time, how
ever it's voice is not raised in political
exultation, it il rot flattering itself
on the size of its crops, it is not ask
ing that admiring ears and eyes be
turned toward it's orators or its sweet
singers, it is not defiantly hurting
reply back to it's favorite but all too
daring son, William Allen White, who
once conceived the idea that there
was something the matter with it.
1t is doing none of these things. 1t
is simply boasting of it's girls.
There are no better girls to be
found anywhere in the world, declares
Kansas, than those born and bred and
educated within its own borders. They
are everything, says Kansas, that girls
should be. They are blooming, blush
ing and bright. Their percentages in
school are above the average. They
are learning not only to grace the
They know a lot, and are learning
more, about farming. They are prac-
teal. They are everything that the
most exacting could desire in girls.
and yet they are girls. The nation is
proud of its daughters as a whole, but
that will not prevent it from joining
with Kansas In special celebration
over its discovery that the Kansas
girls are the best of all the Kansas
products.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
says UNCLE CIV

An outburst for righteous wrath is
occasionally very useful in making a
sluggish world sit up and take notice
1t jars your particular corner of the
universe out of its lethargy and serves
notice upon it that you are a person
to be reckoned with. But for all that
the man who loses his head in right
eous anger is quite as much of a fool
as the man who is betrayed into folly
by less legitimate provocation. The
strong man is he who never exhibits
anger except as the result of delibera-
ton.
Said Willie Jones, the 1ady1ike clerk
in Spriggins's general store, to old
Doc Houser: why do you know, was
utterly surprised at the way Lawyer
Iamberton flew into those fellers over
at the court house. He just seemed
to go crazy"
you've got it wrong Beatrice" said
Old Doc you've got it wrong. 1t was
the other fellows that went crazy
Your good friend Lamberton never
gets mad. He just seems to when it's
necessary to throw scare into some
body That's the reason everybody gifts
up and gifts when he breaks loose.
Think it over, little one.
This Lawyer Lamberton was con-
siderable of a power in Puckyhuddle.
He was as full of tricks as con-
jurer's bag. He had smile for every
body on ordinary occasions. He had
a handclasp that was as hearty as it
was honest. He never lost control of
himself. But when circumstances de-
manded it he paved the ground and
beloved like the bull of Bashan. He
called his enemies gentlemanly names
that stung worse than the profanity
of other men. He took their hides off
and hung them up to public seorn. He
tossed his white name and .glared until
all within hearing .rembled. He saved
his wrath Cor certain definite and spe-
cific purposes, and it served those pur-
poses. Wherefore Lawyer Lamberton
was quite as much of power in his
part of the state as was the foxy old
cardinal who ruled France or that I'M
cannily-wise prince who once upon a
time played ducks and brakes with Italy.
There are no wiser words than those
of the Scripture which advise US to
be slow to anger, nor those others
which say that he that ruleth himself
is greater than ne that taketh city.
No man is as great as he should be I'M
less he makes his anger serve him.
The man who sees red is fool. and his
folly is measured by the frequency with
which he sees it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
EVENING CHAT
A Sense of Perspective.
HI RUTA CAMERON.

There are great many people in this
world who never seem to have more than
one idea one feeling at time.
l once knew young girl who was SO
devoted to her mother that she was held
up as an example to all the other girls in
the town; but when she fell in love and
married as girls will do, she seemed to
transfer all her devotion to her husband.
The little mother was left out in the cold
and was given only the barest crusts of
time and affection left over from the
feast
This phase lasted for two years. Then
the baby came and Immediately all the
devotion was transferred to him. She be-
came as indiffertn toward her husband as
she had been toward her mother. Even
when competent nurse had been Sc
cured, she was unwilling to go out with
her husband when he talked to her of his
interests which she had once delighted IN
sharing, she listened with vacant eyes
she was wondering if she had sterilized
the bottles properly, or If she had not
better put another blanket on the baby.
Needless to say, while her husband had
condoned the indifference and neglect
with which his wife treated her mother,
he was astonished and indignant at this
second change.
Now the world is big place, and our
lives are complex things, and the normal
human being ought to have room for a
great many interests and affections at
once. To concentrate on a single interest
and affection is narrowing and short
sighted Unless that woman learns to
take an interest in something besides her
child she is storing up misery for herself
Besides the people who can have but
one affection at a time, there are those
who are capable of only one idea. In this
class are the enthusiasts who believe that
some single change in our way of living
would make all perfectly well. One IS
absolutely sure that We would all live to
be a hundred if we would only chew each
mouthful of food forty OF fifty times. An
other IS just as positive that the only
thing necessary for perfect health is to
sleep out doors. Still anothers goes about
proving to his own satisfaction that all
human ills are caused by wearing tight
clothes.
And then there are the reformers who
think the social ill health can be cured by
one or two laws. If we could only have
the minimum wage or the single tax, they
tell US, tbs millennium would came at
once.
If you hold a penny close enough to
your eye you can shut out the sun, but
that does not mean that the penny is big
ger than the sun. If you hold some one
idea or affection very close to your heart
you can shut out whole worldful of 9TH
er ideas and affections, but that does not
mean that the one idea or affection, how
ever good, is more important than all the
rest together.
sense of perspective is a, thing a great
many people seem to need.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ArCHIsoN GLOBE.

If you can sweat and forget you haven't
any trouble.
The average mans jokes take well any
place except in his own home.
1t is impossible for person with a
double chin to pine away gracefully.
1t is the theory of this dub that no one
is as wise as an expert thinks he is.
time about a often as the rest of us.
Insanity is twice as bad as death; still
people often laugh at crazy people.
Some time you are going to get to a
place where you can't knock on wood.
There are plenty of books, such as they
are, but there are going to be lot more.
Some men seem to get ahead as easily
as others fall behind. We said seem.
Speaking of long felt wants, and such
the parsnip.
Still, there would be a good deal more
shooting if that unwritten law were gem
orally enforced
When woman has a few spare mo
ments time at home, she just gives her
teeth another brushing.
Walking is a great exercise. but that Is
no excuse for joining marching club
and wearing high hat.
Alb. Adkins figures man is too anxious
for inside information when he goes to
the penitentiary to get it.
A monogram, Claribel, is a bunch of in
itials arranged SO you can't tell what they
are, nor their regular order.
A certain rich man says stogies are as
good as cigars, but when some one sets
'em up to him he always takes cigar.
An Atchison man is SO quarrelsome he is
likely to start fuss with his monograph
if there is one else around
When a woman buys shoes and asks the
clerk for ANY kind just SO they are COM
Portable her age is forty or Whereabouts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
MEAT MAY BE CHEAPER.

A. last there seems to be a favorable
outlook for cheaper meat. The Aus
+ra1ian government commissioners at
San Francisco are responsible for a
settlement that Australian beef, NUT
ton Dorlx and butter will in few
weeks food the markets of San Fran
cisco and other American cities and
lower the present high prices of meat
~ the consumer The Union Steam
shin company has announced that an
order has just been placed in England
for the construction of four large re-
frigerator carriers, which are TO De
used for transporting frozen meats
from Australia to San Francisco. The
head of San Francisco firm has
closed a contract for all of the avail
able refrigerating space on the three
liners of the Union company now OPP
Grating to San Francisco
The steamship owners have secured
guarantees for large orders sufficient
to test the refrigerating capacity of
the present fleet of steamships. 1t is
expected to bring to San Francisco
millions of pounds of meats, especially
mutton.
Expecting at least a lowering of the
present tariff on meats admitted into
America, the Swift and Armour inter-
ests. it is said. are now preparing
for the construction of a huge slaugh-
ter house and freezing plant at Bris-
bane, from which they will ship to the
states thousands of frozen sheep, hogs
and cattle weekly. The American COM
,panies will also handle Australian but
ter.
According to the New South Wales
commissioner for the United States,
hundreds of cattle breeders of Texas
and other southern and western states
have signified their intention of going
to northern Australia and going into
the cattle business upon a bigger scale
than ever before attempted. Already
concessions have been arranged for
the taking over of vast portions of
more than 100000 square miles of
virgin territory, which is adapted to
the raising of millions of sheep and
cattle annually.
To prevent the possibility of the meat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03

trust taking over the vast production
of meats and butter of Australia and
charging the consumer high prices and
paying the producer low prices, the
commonwealth is arranging to take
charge of the slaughtering, freezing,
and sale of these products upon ma
tional scope, and keep prices upon an
even basis.
The largest killing, freezing, and
packing plant in the world will soon
be in course of construction at one of
the seaports of northern Australia, in
which sheep, hogs, and cattle will be
handled for the markets of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03

steal smile. But tonight-the gentle
man who left just as you came up
has kindly offered to take charge of
my business for me. He is an astron-
oner and would take the best care of
my dear telescope. 1 think serious
ly-
But Anne did not finish her sentence.
A low growl from Wolf seemed to ex-
press the wrath that had gathered in
Ben Huyler's eyes.
Il know 1 have no right to say so
just yetr' he burst forth, but 1
won't have anybody doing anything for
you. L am going to do it all mySelfp'
Anne was far too astonished to do
more than gasp. Wolf was suddenly
quiet as If he enjoyed the turn of
events.
Huyler continued more gently. Don't
you know that I have learned to love
you-here by the waves and the song of
the sea! Some day I am going to tell
you about it again. He drew near
enough to Anne to discover that her
breath was coming swiftly. Her eyes
had hidden under moon-tipped lasheS
and her slim hand had fluttered with a
quick movement to the telescope. Its
great glass eye seemed to be blinking
happily and peacefully. The smile deep
ened around Anne's lips.
MY telescope and Wolf are evident
ly quite content she confided to
Huyler.
And you-Anne?" questioned the
man. Are you content that I love
your"
"Since you have editorial tendencies
and I want to write stories-perhaps
I am.'' she told him with a smile that
made Ben Huyler feel a certain moon
madness sweep over him.-(Copyrigh
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
A CASE OF CONTEMPT.

w. H. Caldwell, formerly of Hutch
inson, and now of California, is plainly
in contempt of court. not only one
court but two Caldwell left Kan
sas some years ago and was not heard
of any more until this week. His
wife believing him dead tried to col
lect his life insurance policy. The in
surance company resisted payment and
she sued. Both the district court and
the supreme court declared him dead.
Now Caldwell comes forward and
makes solemn affidavit that he is not
dead, thus practically placing a charge
of falsehood against the courts. When
a man is dead 1t is beyond the power,
even of a court to resurrect him. If
he insist on coming to life on his own
account to the possible annoyance of
the tribunal which consigned him to
the tomb it seems clear that he
can be cited for contempt.
Respect for the duly constituted legal
authorities must be maintained at all
hazards and the habit of coming back
from the grave must be checked in its
incipiency if the bulwarks of our lib
erty are to be maintained intact.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record

from the Ph1ladeIph1a RecOrd-I
No man is so selfish as to keep all his
popularity to himself.
The best thing with which to feather
your nest-Cash down.
If wishes were automobiles, gasoline
would go up 1000 per cent.
None are So blind as those who don't be-
lieve anything they can't see.
= The world has more use for the cheerful
idiot than for the melancholy sage
Women never really admire each other.
They are too busy admiring each others
clothes.
The man who relies on his pull to get
him into heaven had better begin to prac-
tice shoveling coal.
Little Willie overheard his father speak
ing of some one who had been weighed in
the balance and found wanting. IT guess
maybe he forgot to drop a penny in the
slot, suggested Willie.
If at first you don't succeed,
And find that you are stuck,
Throw in your clutch and change your
speed,
And blame in on your luck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03

One in 10 of all the wage-earners
employed in the manufacture of cotton
is under 16 years of age, according
to the Bulletin of Manufactures just
issued by the census bureau. The ma
tionaI child labor committee points
out that the textile industries are still
the largest employers of children in
factories, for this bulletin based on the
census of 1910 shows 1921 employed in
the manufacture of cotton goods, II, Ill
in hosiery and knitting mills, e.942 in
the wooden and felt industry and S,143
in silk factories. The Bulletin shows
also 11.035 workers under 16 engaged
in canning and preserving and 1851
scattered among n other manufactur-
ing industries. The largest percentages
of factory workers under Is are found
in the South Atlantic states and Ala
bama; the next largest in Rhode Island
and Masx achusetts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
by TIE WAY
BIT HARVEY PARSONS.

AS women are to take charge of the
meat markets because they think meat
| prices are too high, there is but one
| thing left for meat dealers; they should
nab and conduct the millinery AND
ladies' furnishing emporiums on the
| same grounds.
A man with three wives-all alive
and outside. is going to be paroled from
| the penltentiary. And Warden Coddihg
has been touted as a humane Christian
gentleman, with no malice toward MS
fellow man.
But mayliap the fellow is a low
proved crook, and the good warden
felt that he was not getting his
A great ge-lorious ball game between
newswriters and state house employees
is scheduled for some time this month.
"A ball game between politicians and
newspaper men will resemble, in some
respects, a sangerfest in a deaf and
dumb asylum or a poetry-writing con-
test between journeymen sausage max
ers.
This department will attend, of
course, but in the capacity of mascot.
We frequently overstep our limit, but
not, as rule. by butting into base
ball game.
Scientists are now fully satisfied that
the Martians built their own canals,
but when it comes to a matter of civic
pride, 1--WE should worry" as they say
in Kansas City. The Martians have no
great white way.
Another thing Kansas has to be
proud of. The last legislature did not
pass the fool full crew bill that was
saddled into several eastern railroads
at later date. The travelling public
of Kansas desires that the train crew
remain absolutely sober.
To move, or not to move-that's the
question" now before the tuberculosis
fighters. They have a cordial invita-
ton from Northsiders to move their
camp and take their tubercules with
the other camp furniture, but it ap
pears that colored lady, residing
near the only other available site, OBJ
jects. So it seems that the anti
tubercs and the city commission must
weigh the colored lady and see if she
over-balances the entire First ward.
1t is generally suspected in Topeka
that the Mahin law was framed, not
by the genial senator from Smith, but
by the suitcase trust, in collision with
the passenger departments of rail-
roads running from hence to Kansas
City.
Haskell bandmen refused to play
while rivals danced with their squaw-
lets. A better idea would have been
to play "off time" and break the legs
of the copper-skinned rivals.
Conner Davies claim that he takes no
particular interest in the war scare be-
cause there is no chance that a wood
en-legged man will be drafted to shoot
Japs. But one does not shoot with
ones leg. Shooting, mayhap Conner is
not informed, is done almost entirely
by hand.
And at any rate, he should worry.
Although he wears but one shoe at
time. he can write better than any
three-legged man on the map, and in
case of war, it would be incumbent
upon him to write Burning Editorials,
Pregnant with Patriotism. And it is
harder to keep up a series of patriotic
editorials than it is to shoot for
eignerS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

Jealousy always has a target.
The cheerful liar is great comfort to
himself.
The important question: who is going
to pitch?''
Instead of being driven to drink some
men are led.
Love laughs at locksmiths and ignores
chaperons.
Real love never discovers that the bur-
den it brings is too heavy.
A woman will jump to conclusion
while man is crawling toward 1T.
It's human to attempt shifting the blame
on environment or 'heredity."
Proposing by mail is as unsatisfactory
as kissing girl through knothole in a
board fence.
When it comes to work, in the spring
almost anybody is willing to pose as a
total abStainer.
And many a misguided young man seems
to think that stepping stones are merely
something to throw at the birds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
CALIFORNIA AND THE JAPANESE

CALIFORNIA AND THE JAPANESE.
In her determination to bar the
japanese from owning land in Cali
fornia, the state appears to be within
her rights under the treaty.
The treaty grants the privilege of
leasing land in the United States, but
the omission of the word GOWN is as
emphatic as a downright prohibition.
1t undoubtedly marks the fact that
aliens cannot own land in Japan. The
treaty stipulated that citizens of the
United States might lease land
in Japan and that citizens of
Japan might lease land in the
United States. Its failure to stipulate
that they might own land hardly yields
to any other Interpretation than that
the omission definitely stated a policy
agreed upon.
The presence of body of alien land
not wholesome in any state. The United
States declares the ineligibility to citi-
zenship California merely attempts to
apply that declaration to the ownership
of land.
The real foundation for the existing
trouble therefore lies in the denial Of
citizenship to the Japanese by the
federal government. although if nat
uralization were denied the citizens OF
any European nation it is improbable
that they would be included in the
proposed alien land law.
The attitude of California, If based
solely on race prejudice would find
much sympathetic response in other
states. but it is not
The facts are that the japanese are
quiet. Industrious and lawabiding and
do not interfere with the politics or the
religion of the state. But the chief OBJ
lection to their presence lies in the fact
that they are competitors with the Cali
fornians in the labor market. The
state is merely taking advantage OF
the opportunity offered by the federal
statutes to shut them out.
The easiest and most effectual meth
cd of solving the problem would be
for the United States to include the
Mikado's subjects among those eligible
to citizenship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03

President Wilson's disregard of pre-
cedents appears to be spreading A
Boston magis rate had to sentence
several boys for breaking into a
freight car and stealing from the con-
tents. To send them to prison would
probably make criminals of them. He
sentenced them to keep a certain
street near their homes clean for six
months, and two policemen will see
that they do the work. This penalty
will keep the boys out of criminal
companionship. 1t will also provide a
perfectly clean street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03
THE HERMIT ON THE DUNES

NJN Ea9s
Far away to the south
Where the sea-hill heaps,
A gray gull wanders,
A gray sail sweeps.
Far away to the south
Where the sky leans low,
My gray thoughts journey,
My gray dreams blow. :,
In my house by the dunes
I have Silence for wife,
Tho the long shore shudders
With the Surf'S drawn strife.
Oh, she broods by my hearth
And she bends to my bed.
She is strange as the old Norns
And dumb as the dead.
Far away to the south
Where the sea heaps high,
The gullS fade ever,
The sails all die
Far away to the south.
BY Fannie Stearns Davis