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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
THE SPEED LIMIT.

The city administration might ex-
tend the scope of it's law enforcement
program to the persistent violations OF
the speed ordinance, with credit to
itself and benefit to the general pub
lie. This suggestion is due to the seri-
Gus accident which occurred Monday
on one of the city streets
1t may be that the motorcyciist who
ran over a girl and injured her per-
haps fatally, was not going faster than
the law permits, but that the speed
limit is exceeded by cycle riders daily
and nightly everybody knows.
The protection of the morals of the
community is all right and proper but
the lives of the citizens also are en-
titled to some consideration. The best
time to apply the remedy is before the
accident happens. Punishment after
wards cannot help the ictim of the
speed fiend. If necessary, it would be
better to place the limit still lower
rather than that one person should be
killed or MANNED.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
New Treatment for Lockjaw.

One of the most remarkable cures
ever recorded of lockjaw is announced
by DR.. Adolph H. Urbar, Of Brooklyn,
who used new method never tried
in this country. 1t 10 a com bination
of the recognized antitetanus serum
with subsequent simultaneous injec-
tions of carbolic acid.
The case reported by DR.. Urban is
that of a 5-year@old boy, Oliver Pink
ney. He was apparently infected
while playing in the earth of his yard.
In short time he developed convul-
sions, and finally the rigicity that is
usually a precursor of death. DIR.
Urban decided to resort to heroic
measures.
The child apparently did not re-
spond for several houfsj rigidity and
intense depression continued. Sudden
". however, he began to show the ef
fects of the treatment, and the I'M
provement was remarkably rapid.
The child was attacked In Septen-
Der. Now he is apparently as well as
ever.-New York Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
SAYS UNCLE CIV

have little sympathy with the man
who cannot get a little fun out of his
surroundings, whatever they may be.
The wise one. manages to extract hap
piness from his circumstances, even
though he be in Jail. There is no con-
-lition on this earth, although one be
deaf, dumb aid blind, that has not it's
within rather than from without, and
he that refuses to make the best of
what he has is a worse fool than a
starving man who would eschew bread
because he couldn't have cake.
The man who really Knows happi-
ness is only too often not him that has
sumptuous fare and fine linen. 1t is
the sane sort of person who eats
who wears shoddy because he has
nothing better. Nature seems to defy
those who would create a monopoly
of happiness. The rich man may
operate a food corner. but the chances
are that he doesn't enjoy his meal as
we'll as the man who Keeps himself
supplied with a keen appetite by do
ing manual labor. He may own most
of the landscape, but, somehow or
other, never regards it with that eager
enjoyment which seems to be almost
the sole and peculiar property of the
cottager down the street.
After a time his fine linen loses it's
novel charm and he would be quite
as content with homespnf1. He, like
the foolish poor man, has lost the
blessed faculty of enjoying what he
has.
Iron bars do not make a prison. as
saith the poet, but a bonehead does.
Better Bunyan in Jail, writing "Pil-
grims Progress" and taking joy in
his creative labor, than Dives at his
feast. thinking of nothing more inspir-
ing than indigestion. Better the dig
ger of bitches sitting at his humble
door wondering at the sunset than the
banker in a draped and upholstered
dungeon that he calls his town house.
unable to get his mind off the stock
quotations of the evening newspaper.
There was a slave once who set the
world laughing with a satire conceived
while he worked the oars of Moslem
galley. There was another who thrill
ed a nation with a dream of freedom
that he helped to make real. Shackles
have never been able to bind the soar
ing mind, nor have prison walls been
able to shut out sunshine from the
soul big and brave enough to look
for it.
If you cannot be happy under any
conceivable set of conditions, you don't
deserve to be happy at all, nor can
you be for long, though by a miracle
the morrow brings the wide world
homage to your feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
Many man has hit his own fingers try
ing to nail lie.
1t is quite possible to eliminate the sting
from joke and still retain its point.
Many a man is constituted So that it
makes him uncomfortable to see others
as ..e is.
Tn; man who feels that he has a mes
sage for the world generally sends it
collect.
The only smart things some people ever
say are the things that make other peo-
pie smart
To err is human, but don't lose sight of
the fact that 1t counts against your field
ing average.
he people who are hard to get along
with those who object to our having
our own way.
The reputation of many man is so bad
that it might be a good thing for him to
lose it entirely.
This is no childs play remarked the
passe actress when she found she was
cast for little Eva in Uncle Tom S
Cabin"
Sillicus-'It's a waste of time to con-
tradict a woman" Cynicus-"Sure. Give
her time enough and she'll contradict her
SELF
"A new broom sweeps clean,'' quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes, but the trouble is it
won't stay new" objected the Simple
Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

PRETTY PROSPECTS.

=
The recent government reports con-
corning the condition of winter wheat
indicate that it never looked better
and that Kansas farmers will soon be
wearing out their motor cars chasing
up and down the land in search OF
helpful hardest hands and battered
box cars as aids in garnerlng the
golden grain and getting 1t to market
Which rule should apply also to a
lesser extent to other winter wheat
growing states, while the broad belt
of the spring wheat region is IN
great shape for spring planting. sure
ly no merry spring time has offered
better prospects that the hungry Will
be fed, and well fed. as they will be.
Yet those who have played the
farming game will postpone their
Harvest homes and joyful jubilees till
later in the season, and diversity
their crops somewhat that one may
win If another loses. Pleasant pros
poets may have a bearish erect on
the market, but one of the Things
farmer learns is that they are no
pop-eyed cinch, and more is needed 10
pay grocery bills and buy motor
cars.
OF course every right-minded citl-
zen hopes the harvest will come up
to it's advance notices, but 1t seldom
does, and individual cases may still
be failures, which possibility war
rants a cautious tilIer and toi1er in
taking out a little hail insurance, ana
trying to make last years Limousine
last until August, at least. With the
possible exception of flooded regions,
spring prospects usually are pretty
good. 1t is later in the season that
hot winds dry weather, chinch bugs,
rust and hessian fly are more likely
to distribute desolation and despair
across the grain belt, If at all.
And yet there is joy in the green
growing things of spring which breeds
faith in the promise of the prospects.
and keeps many farmers from moving
to town and engaging in the butcher
business. That they are kept so fire.
quently also helps some, and makes It
necessary to go to Asia to get famine
pictures for the Christian Herald.
Undoubtedly they will yield enough
this year to maintain Kansas suprem-
acy as a wheat growing state, which
helps some, and worrying over bread
and breakfast food will be left for
future generations,-AtchIs Globe.
AWAKENING THE CONSCIENCE.
There may be 10 relation between
low wages and low morals, and the
Investigations of the Illinois vice
commission may be more spectacular
than effective in righting a wrong;
but the probe is calling attention 10
the way in which some rich manu-
facturers and merchants achieved
their wealth and the peoples con-
science is becoming properly aroused
on a condition that is not good,
whether or not it has a direct rela-
tionship to another eviL-Salina Jour
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
EVENING CHAT
Standing Still.
RY RUTA E.AAERoN

Standing Still.
HE who does not improve today will
grow worse tomorrow German Pro-
verb.
An energetic young business man was
telling me the other day about the
splendid business of which he is one
of the owners
I'VE are running full capacity in all
our factories he said proudly. 1--WE
have practically every bit of business
we can handle"
Then why on earth" 1 asked, "are
you starting a campaign of advertis-
ing new?" He had just been outlining
to me campaign of advertising which
he was ABOUT to start. IF you have
all the business you can handle, why
are you trying to get more2'
He laughed at my ignorance of bust
ness ways. Because we have to grow
constantly he said IF we were con-
ourselves going backward. Well get
the business and then Wen find a
way to handle it. There is no room
nowadays for any business that is
not improving it's methods and grow
ing bigger and better every day.
I suppose every business man knows
that. 4&
1t is an axiom Of twentieth century
business conditions.
But why conf1ne it to business?
Isn't 1T just as true of life. itself?
OF you and me, and all the other hui
man beings who are engage in the
greatest business of all-the business
of hving??
l think it is.
There is no room in the business
world for a business that is not grow
ing" Neither is there any room in the
world of human progress for man
or woman who is not growing The
business man who is content to let his
business stand still will soon see it
going backward And the man or wo-
man who is content to stand still will
soon find himself or herself going back
ward. AS our energetic and progressive
cousins the Germans say He who
does not improve today will grow
worse tomorrow.
Progress is the unacceptable law of
life. When growth ceases decay COM
mences.
Are you obeying that law?
Abe you growing or are you decay
ing?
Are you going forward or backward?
1t must be one of the two.
In what way mentally, morally or
physically are you in better condition
than you were a year ago at this time?
Life is action up to the souls high
est excellence says a wise biogra-
pher. And many who eat their three
meals a day are as dead as door
mats That is because they have
ceased to grow, and therefore have
died inwardly, though outwardly and
physically they still bear the semblance
of life.
There are altogether too many people
like this in the world. Let's not be-
long to such an overcrowded class.
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ripping laugh out of her serious
ness.
she's OUT was the woman's an
swer. ~
Jim simply turned and went down
the steps and into the twilight. He
hated the gas lamp at the corner.
and-the children and the boys play
ing hide and seek. He was sick of
everything. And now he knew what
allied him-he was in love, like any
goose of youth; he, &c years old and
in his senses on other subjectsi And.
probably. she was off to a dance with
that fellow Benson! Probably she
was like all the rest-proba she
was not the girl for him; but he
couldn't think sol His thoughts chung
to her, all that was protective and
affecuonate IN him went out to shell
ter her. .'-.---.--...
He turned a corner sharp and with
out warning ran squarely into some
one-a woman-no, a girl, by the
soft, alarmed "Oh!'' of fright and
pain He caught at and saved her
from falling. trying. to excuse his I'M
pardonable blindness. Then he saw
who it was. ----.---
"Oh, Elliep' he said, using her first
name. "Oh, Eilie," He was ready
now to be quiet and good He had
mentally accepted his defeat. She
had plainly showed she didn't care
for him, so he would be simply
friendly. Looking down at her now,
wondering. that she did. not speak,
he perceived to his amazement and
dtsmay that she was crying Tears
ran down her cheeks. He put a hand
under her arm and protected her
down the street lest passers should
note her distress.
"Oh-did L hurt you, Ellie? I'm
a great stupid brute, as we'll as a
fool! 1 chase after you when 1 ought
to see that you just can't-love me!
L couldn't help loving you-I wanted
to take care of you. 1 lectured and
interfered because WANTED to take
care of you. T.
She drew her arm from his ana
stopped short to look up at him, her
face fairly shining through the tears.
Her voice was a revelation.
"Oh!" she breatIIed. "OhI you
|-really-care And-Oh, couldn't
you understand-that 1 cared too
from-the very-first?''
He had no words for a moment
She-cared! The thought made him
silent and dizzy and dumb and in
effably happy. He drew her very
close as they walked along the way
Then he whispered what made her
hold her breath for joy. She was to
be-a wife. She was to have-a real
home.-(Copyright, 1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

There is nothing so likely to bring
OF an enforced economy in federal ex-
penditure, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. as the new fiscal expedient of
an income tax. BY a substantial shift
of the weight of taxation from the
shoulders of those who have not an ex-
cess of available cash to the shoulders
of those who have more than they need
there will be brought about an answer
ing shift of economic opinion. When
the power of laying taxes shall be no
longer made available as means of
building up the fortunes of a few men
by indirect pillage of the mass of their
fellows there will be Immediately in
duced a more common interest in the
common good. The millionaire will find
selfish and saving motive in linking
arms with his lowly neighbor. the hod-
carrier, in mutual effort to keep public
outlay within the measure of public
revenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
Garden Seeds.

Garden Seeds.
My congressman sent garden seeds,
sent garden seeds galore,
Twas claimed that they were better
than the seeds sold at the
store.
planted them as-I had planted COM
mon seeds before.
Those fancy seeds grew common
weeds. just weeds and nothing
more.
You see, 1 merely planted them and
let it go at that.
1 didn't cultivate the ground or hoe
my garden plat.
didn't nurse those seeds along Tor
1 forsoek them, flat.
I merely raised a crop of weeds, of
weeds profuse and fat.
It's so in life, man may be pre-
pared for gallant deeds,
The seed of genius in him sown, the
richest of all seeds.
But if it is not nursed along accord
ing to its needs,
1t will, uncultiyated. bring forth
nothing much but weeds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

mountains around Sofia to the profuse
geranium, much loved of the peasants.
In the mountains right among the
granite spurs he had found masses OF
gentian, of slender campanulas with
bells all the way down their stems,
and of vivid forget-me-nots. There
were also miniature rhododendrons
with blooms of many shades. Philip
polls, he said, was afire with sumach,
and in marshy meadows purple prirn-
ulas grew in abundance.-Christian
Science Monitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
wild Flowers OF Bulgaria.

Bulgaria. from a naturaiist's point of
view, was an aspect of that country of
which the audience at the Royal Horti-
cultural society in London were de-
lighted to be reminded recently Mr..
Ball. the lecturer. spoke of the rose
gardens in the valley so miles long,
from which the world obtains it's sup
ply of altar of roses. He spoke of
the picking of the roses before sun
set to prevent their losing half their
fra GRANGE. His chief theme was, how
ever, of the wild flowers of Bulgaria.
from the crocus growing in the bleak
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
FROM OTHER PENS
BOOSTERS OF THE WAR GAME.

BOOSTERS OF THE WAR GAME.
The revelations concerning the war
game as it is played in Germany in the
interest of the gunmakers of Essen are
interesting reminders to the people of
the United States. This nation is not
stranger to artificially inflated war
clouds, and sometimes there have been
suspicious signs trailing along in the
direction of profit-making war industry.
1t has been an open secret that a lobby
has been maintained at Washington
which has done valiant work to in
crease the consumption of powder and
the demand for all munitions and sup
plies of war, on land or sea. The liter
allure of the press bureau for the pro
omtion of rifle practice and larger gov
eminent contracts for shells. has been
a familiar output from Washington
sometimes under congressional frank,
for years, but is only a minor incident
in the expenditure which has been
made for the ehcoura cement of shoot
ing. The gun and powder makers. and
other contractors for military equip
ment and army and navy supplies. al
ways are willing helpers in the mill
tarist propaganda. The treason of Es-
sen probably is not duplicated in this
country, but if it were possible to trace
OUT the extent of the military lobby at
Washington and it's connections with
the war industry, the DOGGY that per-
iodically throws the nation into alarm
might be more clearly understood and
be less terrifying .-Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
THE THIRSTY DIPLOMATS
The reform of the diplomatic corps is
being carried on apace by Secretary
Bryan, whose confidence In the face of
enormous difficulties commands universal
respect The reporters sent out quite
Unconditional accounts of the state dinner
but it is not difficult to read between the
lines and rise to a truer realiza ton of the
sufferings endured by the diplomatic corps
during the ordeal of reformation.
"Unfermented grape juice was the
strongest beverage" Now, seasoned dip
lomats have objection whatever to
grape Juice but in its natural state Civ
ing off no generous sparkles, unproductive
of epigrams and beading no brim with
bubbles, it is as dish water to the sophis-
ticated palate. So near and yet SO far:
suggestion without realization. The figure
of Tantalus dipping phantom water
among the shades and condemned to eter-
nal thirst is no true parallel.
Gossip is now busy with speculation as
to whether wines will be served at state
dinners at the White House during the
administration" Hope has not utterly
abandoned the diplomats, but If that hope
shall prove deceptive there will be hasty
exodus of thirsty ambassadors and at
taches from the American Sahara-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

LOS Angeles is sure to take rank
with the great ports of this continent
says the Tribune of that city. In con-
sideration of the fact that the town
is IA miles from the coast at the near
est point and that there is no harbor
nearer than San Diego, 125 miles away,
this is a prediction that seems impos-
sible of f.ifiIlment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
SPRING SONG.

Oh. well the world is dreaming
Under the April moon,
Her soul in love and beauty.
Her senses all a-Swoon.
Pure hangs the silver crescent
Above the twilight wood,
And pure the silver music
Wakes from the marshy flood.
o Earth, with all thy transport,
How comes it life should seem
a shadow in the moonlight,
A murnur in a dream?
Bliss Carman, in april Smart Set
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4
| developed in Mexico. Young Diaz
would like to collect the job he loaned
Mr.. Huerta. -
And, as paying a loan is not a ma
tional pastime in Mexico, Mr.. Huerta
feels peeved about it.
Mayhap the Connecticut preacher
squared himself for being late to
| church because he was too busy with
his Sunday morning fishing by putting
the deacons next to the place where
they were biting best.
The Shawnee county booze record
book, it is announced, will be open to
the publtc-So that the arid citizen
may look it over and decide upon the
evening. so
From what we can gather from
reading reports of the state fish hatch
feed the various sizes of fish on
smaller fish. They raise middlin' sized
fish for the big fish; smaller fish for
the smaller fish. so on ad ffshinitum.
press it,.
First raise a teeny-weeny fish,
And next fish to eat it;
larger fish to eat that fish,
And so on-can you beat it?
Speaking of the increased cost Of
household necessities II now costs
500 in Topeka to Tram the hay out of
ones own wife.
Another polar expedition will start
soon. The stock of provision for a
three year trip will! consist of pemi-
can, dogs and Eskifnos. OF course a
few gum drops will be taken along for
dessert.
1t appears that the noted common
er is having but little luck in Cali
fornia. 1t will take something stron-
ger than grape juice to convince the
Californians.
What's in a name? One of the
Louisiana towns now concealed be-
meath the turbid bosom of the Missis-
sippi is named waterproof" and one
of the driest of our local attorneys is
ned Waters
Even a deaf woman could spot a
com pliment a mile away.
When a prodiga1 son comes home,
he is usually like a borrowed umbrella
that, by some chance, gets back to the
owner-broke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

Within the last seven months there
have been 4S3 cases of suicide in New
York There must have been a scarcity
of tourists from the provinces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

A Judge advises firemen not to marry
but doesn't say anything about "out
of the engine house into the fire.
Maybe he's married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

Perhaps the best way to cool Cali
fornia off is to withdraw all the
United States army and naval forces
from that state and order the Pa
cific fleet to the Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

Colonel Roosevelt has eaten a two
cent lunch. Which leads to the con-
clusion that the Arma geddon COM
missary department is depleted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

Mr.. Bryan may be prevented from
attending the St. Louis peace congress
by his prior engagement to keep the
peace in Sacramento.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

The trouble with tariff bill framec
without hearings seems to be that it
puts the producer in the same prediea-
Inent as the consumer.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is member Of tine
Associated Press and receives tne Lu .,s u a.,
@ar1frat4on for the exclusive afternoon
publfcatdon in Topeka 49, 49,.
,,aI ,,rff1difr over wires for this sole puf-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

Probably April 16 has been set down
in the private record of Willis Moore
as the coolest day since the weather
bureau was esta blished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

1t looks like a studied insult to
Ohio to mention Mayor Whitlock for
ambassador to Switzerland when the
Montenegro job is still in stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

The Democratic party will not be
satisfied with the Underwood tariff
bill until 1t is amended to put about
100. 900 government jobs on the free
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

John ID. only got s110, 100000 at the
latest Standard Oil melon cutting. but
IL this happens three or four times
year he may be able to worry along
Turkey needs money. In that regard
Turkey is much like all other princi-
palfties and po-----
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

The queen of the May will, as usual
wear dads old straw hat on her head
a mop in her hand and a smudge OF
SCOT on her face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30

Eight thousand men were killed in
one day in Scutari. Think of the
fatherless little Peterkins who will
never be able to appreciate this famous
xyirtory