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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-05
GLOEE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

1t is hard to keep your friends, and use
them, too. ~
It is difficult for blonde to avoid sus-
plclon or using peroxide
Somehow an undertaker's smile never
cheers US up great deal.
Flattery is largely composed of compli-
tnents that aren't coming your way.
Some people set their mouths to going
and then go away and leave them.
II he tackles the weather, a prophet Is
apt to be without honor in any old coun-
try.
Temptation comes in several more sat-
lsfactory forms than the sample package
Occasionally there is a doctor wise
enough to admit he doesn't know, but
tner are rare.
1t is hard for q woman to serve a Cause
faithfully without neglecting her house,
work.
If a politician has Influence he gets an
appointive office If he wasn't elected to
something.
One likes to have all modern improve
ments in his home, whether he uses them
or not
Hold your patience and your Job is
about the best piece of advice We can
think of just now.
About the rarest type of man is the one
who makes a mistake by sticking too
close TO his Job.
Another thing in favor OF the Ben Davis
apple is that it doesn't keep as long as
canned fruit.
Having once sat down on a bee, this re-
porter refuses to worry over an impend-
ing shortage of honey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-05
Flag jag Book"

Delaware county has a flag jag
list which was compiled by Chief of
Police Vance, of Chester, and ap-
proved by the Delaware County Liquor
Dealers association. 1t is bound IN
book form, and has been distributed
among the hotelkeepers and bottlers
The "list" contains more than 100
names, which are printed in alphabet
ical order. Most of the names were
taken from the police dockets, but
some were recorded at the request of
m others and sisters of the habitual
drinkers. In several instances how
ever, those who cannot resist the
temptation to overindulge requested
Chief Vance to add their names to the
list.
Those who are named in the book
will be refused liquor at any licensed
hotel or saloon in Delaware county,
Philadelphia dispatch TO New York
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-05
HUAOR or THE Day.

Ibid Mrs. Lofty ever recover the dia-
mond ring that she thought was stolen?"
she concluded that the baby had swal-
lowed it." "Ha. 1 thought from the first
thai it was an inside job."-Baltimore
American.
Among the loot of robbers at Rochester,
Mimi, is listed 'one coin dated 1000 B. c.
The mint master must have been some
what of a prophet to estimate the begin
ming of the Christian era SO closely.-Buf-
falo Express.
Mrs. W.-"Odd invitations Mrs. Reid is
sued for the coming nuptials of her
daughter-just written affairs. with the
first line reading, Mrs. L. W. Reid re-
quests the honor of your presents etc.
MIR. W.-"Truthful, at any rate."-Judge.
Does your boy Josh work hard on the
FARM" I'VE wouldn't know what to do
without him., answered Farmer Corn
tossel. I'VE have a houseful of summer
boarders and he's the only man the
place who knows how to dance the turkey
trot. ashington Star.
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periences, his plans for the west and
the problems of his work as an engi-
-neer. In the meantime they had got
over very little geometry. They had
had one or two heated arguments, and
these always ended by making Tom
more in love with Pamela than ever.
But now he had definitely decided
to leave. He couldn't teach her
mathematics. That was obvious. She
apparently refused to try, and he was
too much in love with her to force
her. So that night when Mr.. Des-
mond came home from a business
trip Tom went to him, and Mr.. Des-
mond, who admired the young engi-
neer, listened to his explanation pa
tiently- At last, when he had heard
him out, Mr.. Desmond said:
well. if you can stand it, 1 don't
mind her not learning anything 1t is
that she is out of trouble. She is such
a tomboy. she is apt to go off by her
self in the mountains, and that is UNI
safe. She won't have any girls here TO
visit her. She can't abide girls. Since
her mothers death she has been pretty
lonely. I spend what time L can with
her, but I am busy. Too bad she
didn't have a brother--such girl as
that. So you will stay-won't you?"
said Mr.. Desmond. Don't go till you
have had another talk with PAM
Tom went back to his room that
night without giving his answer. "The
idea of being looked upon as a harm
less sort of a nursemaid,'' he thought
to himself. 81 would just like to show
Desmond that 1 am not quite SO gen.
tie as I look--I would like to show
him.
however. the next morning he. met his
pupil on an open porch for their lesson as
usual. Pam was in of her docile
moods this morning.
yesterday" she said. But didn't we
have a good time in the mountains after
ward? You know you are the only aG,,L per
who can enjoy the woods and things wita
me. 1 wish 1 was an engineer and COULD
go out west and ride out there she
of his own heart at his side. You must
think I am very stupid about the geom-
etery.'' She looked down and tear
Stu ed harder-only-only really and
truly the reason why didn't was because
1 hate college, there are 50 many ,gnIs
something about the geometry, you mace
it SO clear-but 1 don't want to under.
stand it. I don't want to go back want
Then it occurred to Tom that pehaps
a miracle had been performed; that per
haps this Pamela, this heartless, I'M
tanned little Pamela had had heart per-
He didn't stop to think it over. He bur
ried to her and put his two hands on the
arms Of her chair and i9o xe1 could = you
Then later, when they were talking II
for the fftieth time nae tn tha tell o Vou
myself, because dad said once that no
man would ever dare propose 10 me per
cause I was 80 cross and snaPPy. 30, % 7
woufd have to break the ice myself
downright, 1913, by the Mcclure Ne"sPa-
per Syndicate.)
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EVENING CHAT
"DO 1t Now"
BY RUTH CAMERON.

We all know that the habit of do
ing things at once-not in few min
11tes. Or tomorrow, or some days
one of the most valuable habits any
one can possibly have The omni-
nresence of the do 1t Now cards
would certainly be proof OF that' IL
proof were necessary.
And vet / wonder, are we doing
enough to cultivate in our cni!oren
and ourselves the do-it-now spirit!
The little boy next door mas the men
fever. a disease common to normal
bows between eight and sixteen. he
has bought az dozen hens and
rooster with his birthday money. he
was telling us about his new venture
yesterday and somebody sugg s,d
that he send for some of the govern
ment bulletins on hen raising. HIS
eve lit up with interest and he asked
several questions about the ma.ter.
Don't charge you anything! wen:
that's bully. Sure I'll send for them, y
he said and then he sauntered OH
toward the street.
why, where are you going, SOM"
asked the mother, Il thought you
were gonig to write for those bull
letins?''
$50 I am" he answered impatient
minute, do II"
yes, you do, son. she insisted.
that's the only way. You are in
terested now and now is the time to
act. Do it now and you'll do 1t; do
it tomorrow and you won't do it. You
promised me when L gave you the
money to fix up that coop that you
were going to make a success of this,
and you know I told you that you'd
never make a success of this or any
thing else until you learn to do
things now not pretty soon or to-
morrow
"Come, son." as he still hesitated,
the noon mail and you ought to get
the bulletins by next week.
The prospect of quick results re-
kfndled the boys enthusiasm and he
disappeared into the house. "I sup
pose it was a little thing to make so
much Of his mother apologized, but
it isn't the bulletins care about.
What I want is to help him learn to
do things at once.
1t certainly didn't seem to me "a
little thing to make SO much Of" I
wish there were more mothers like
her. If there were, there would be
more efficient citizens in the world.
To my mind, the two most valu-
able habits from the point Of view of
efficiency are the habit of concentra-
ton and the habit of doing-it-now
Given a man with great talent and
without these habits, and a man of
less ability but possessed of them, and
I think the latter would win out
every time.
Any man or woman who has the
do-it-now habit will make twice as
out it, and the best thing is that it's
never too late to acquire it and never
too early to help your children ac-
Quire it.
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BY TIE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

The Manuel wedding in Yoorup got
a place on the first page, but to this
department, the only interest in the
c. tok. MT. Manners other name, and
whether or not Mrs. Manuel ever met
and discussed him with that Gaby
person, who was instrumental IN put
ting the boob's king business in the
hands of a receiver
Canada has some strict game laws,
but from the open, fragrant way IN
which Thaws goat is being pursued
by Jerome, one might gather that this
is the Canadian open season on goats.
In regard to the report that 100000
head of cattle have been unloaded on
the Kansas City markets this week,
Hondo Murphy opines that the cattle
from Kansas pastures may not be
worth a whoop for steaks, but they
ought to make excellent dried beef.
While visiting this department the
other day, Mr.. Kelley of the Toronto
Republican stated that, while there
were no news stands in Toronto, Kan,
he got along fairly well by taking sew
eral magazines and Golfers.
The 10000 sleeping car porters of
the country are about to form a
union, but that faction of the gentry
that still prefers to take 1t away from
maintain open shop.
Some of the old traditions are lost
to one locality, but preserved in 9TH
places in the world where the theory
that a bird dog has cash value, is
maintained.
Jack Supp says he isn't interested
in the efforts of a Paris scientist to
find out where all the pins go to, but
he would like to know the ultimate
finish of all the marbles purchased by
the kids.
Kansas is dry, no doubt of it, but
one may gather from an occasional
date line that Oklahoma has Nowata,
so it will be useless to claim d1stinc-
ton in the matter.
Caminettfs defense seems to be that
what he did was "accid entail" Or, in
other words, he didn't know the Mann
act was loaded.
One advantage to these skimp
skirts; man is not liable to step on
the hem of one in a crowded street
car.
The father of 2s has just died in
Indiana, at the advanced age of "a
years. The remarkable feature of the
announcement lies in the fact that
neither booze nor tobacco got any
free advertising out of the report of
his death, and the general public is
left in ignorance of whether or not
he used liquor or tobacco since he
was IL years old.
During the Is years we lived in
Tampa, Fla, we averaged z letters
per year from Kansas relatives who
commiserated with us upon having to
live in a hot climate. That was be-
fore the custom Of printing general
temperature records was established.
Now the relatives can read it in type:
Topeka, SO; Tampa, 50 Gust like that.)
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POSTPONE SCHOOL OPENING.

Isn't it a serious error of Judgment
on the part of the educational auth
critics to open the schools under the
weather conditions that are now pre-
vailing, even if it does happen to be
the season of the year for this event !?
Some of the rural schools in Kan
sas opened the doors the first of this
week. Most of the others are plan
ming to do likewise on Monday of
next week. In the cities, the general
date for the resumption of school ac-
tivities is first of next week, while in
some few cities it doesn't come until a
week later. But regardless of custom
in this respect the schools should not
be opened in any such weather as the
present variety. even If it should con-
tinue until the first of October.
This is particularly true of the
schools in the rural districts, where a
good portion of the children have to
trudge some distance to attend them.
Then, too. the water supply in most
of the rural districts in Kansas is now
something of a problem. Not only
have the creeks and streams ceased
to flow, but many wells are out of
commission and the water in others
has become unfit for use. In all like
likely to be found around school
houses as anywhere else. And
school house in the country without
decent water, and plenty of it. and
especially in 100 degree weather, is no
place for children.
But in cities as well as in rural
communities, this is no kind of wealth
er for herding the youngsters into
sob
ed that children will pay any attention
to their lessons when they are swell
tering in the heat? How can the
teachers be expected even to begin to
keep their tempers and handle their
classes as they should? Why, these
propositions are preposterous. A cou-
pie of weeks or more of school in this
sort of weather would make nervous
wrecks of the pupils as well as the
teachers. if it did not put them down
and out with even more serious all
ments, which it would probably do
to many.
1t would be far better and a bigger
gain all around to shorten the school
term by two or more weeks If neces-
sary than to open the schools in any
such weather as the current brand
and bring the real suffering to the
children that it would be sure to
cause. Their health and comfort is
of far more Importance than any edu-
cation which could possibly be impart-
ed to them in two or three weeks.
Keep the schools closed until the
backbone of this terrific summer has
been broken, and shut up those that
have already been opened. Why make
martyrs of the boys and girls of Kan
sas just to conform with custom!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-05
KANSAS COHNEWT
HERoIsM.

HEROISM.
cant have hero medal because
verdict of the Carnegie commission
on a five-year-old lad of Columbus,
Ohio, who when his four-year-old
playmate waded beyond her depth
jumped in, seized her by the hair of
the head and pulled her out With
all the facts before them, the men
who disburse Carnegies money de-
little fellow of which mamma and
papa might we'll be proud, but that
didn't qualify him as a hero, because
he wasn't old enough to realize the
FISK he ran. Thank heaven he wasn't
or then, counting the cost, he might
have hesitated just the fraction of a
second needed to carry his little COM
Panion beyond his reach. 1t is I'M
doubtedly heroic when a mature per-
son, facing imminent hazard, reckons
the chances and decides to obey a
prompting of humanity. Let such
have medals, by all means, If it will
help to make the crop of heroes grow
But give us the type that doesn't stop
to calculate consequences but re-
spends to the call the instant 1t APP
pcars-responds wholly, with no un-s
canny consciousness of self and no
back of the mind fixed on the posi-
bility of securing q reward. For there
you have humanity as nature meant
it should be, with the clean impulsive-
ness of the guileless child. Perhaps
it's just as well, though, that the lad
did not draw a medal. Think OF
what strain it might have put on
his childish imagination, to say moth
ing of his chest. And refusing it to
him does not detract from the bril-
liancy Of his act.-Arkansas City
Traveller.
AN ILL-CONSIDERED THREAT.
= Governor Colquitt of Texas doesn't re-
fleet credit on himself when he speaks of
sending Texas troops into Mexico. He
confesses to the knowledge that he is
treading on dangerous ground but JUS
the. theory that the United States is not
rushing into war with Mexico, because
of the present disturbances. One can
readily understand that the Mexican
the governor of border state than to the
average individual, but 1t would have to
be acute indeed to warrant any such
measures as is threatened by Governor
Colquitt. One overt act of this nature
might plunge the whole country into a
war whose consequences no one can fore
tell. Texas relinquished that degree of
sovereignty which carried the right or
making war, when she ceased to be a re-
pubns on her own account, and became
an American state. She had another
demonstration of the limitations on her
sovereignty during the war of the rebel
lion. Surely Governor Colquitt doesn't
care to provoke a situation that will re-
much of a fiction state sovereignty" is.
If it be true, as Governor Colquitt
charges, Americans are being murdered
and outraged in the rebellious republic"
the state department, in the assurance
that President Wilson will demand such
reparation as the circumstances warrant.
-Hutchinson Gazette.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

tFrom the Chicago News.J
The young widow who hesitates is won.
A sure way to be ignorant is to think
you know it all.
narrow gauge man never gets very far
on a broad gauge track.
Song of the Husbands club: What Are
the Wild Wives Saying?''
A man may be a heavyweight fighter
and lightweight husband.
Some girls fall in love, and some others
are pushed in by anxious mothers.
And many a mans conservation is due
to the fact that he hasn't the money.
Even fortune comes to him who waits
II ne dOeSn StarVe to death in the mean
time.
Lots of people imagine there's some
thing wrong with them If they haven't
some physical ailment.
After a timid woman faces the parson
with a man. her fear of mice and burg
lars is transferred to dashing widows and
festive chorus girls
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QUAKER fluctuations.
LFrom the Philadelphia Record.

from the Philadelphia Record.l
Many man expects even his own con-
science to jolly MIN along.
Many a fellow finds himself in a hole
simply from building castles in the air.
Seeing is believing, but even the blind
man may be convinced he is right.
Happiness depends quite as much on
what We don't do as upon what We do do
Some people are quick to take offense,
and others are satisfied to borrow trouble
You can always tell good friend from
the fact that he generally keeps his opin-
ions to himself
Nell-'T wouldn't care to marry a wild
over" Belle-"No you would lose all
the fun of tanning him.
Wigg-"I suppose Mrs. Pneurich has the
best of everything Wagg-"Well, per-
haps the best of everything except man
ners.''
Blobbs-''Im mighty glad the world is
full of sunshine" Slobbs-''Then I take
1t you are an optimism Blobbs-.No,
an awning maker"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A big crowd always gathers at
church when it burns down.
+ = =
Most of the optimists probably have
things coming their own way.
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More people would give way to their
lazy inclinations If they could afford to.
= = +
Few grown-ups are smart enough to
give adequate answers to the questions
the children ask.
= + =
People who don't know enough to go
in when. it rains are not seriously hand
icapped by their ignorance these days.
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ARE THE RAILROADS ROBBED

When congress wastes millions of
dollars and state legislatures squan-
der millions more, there is hardly q
passing comment, writes Julius
Kruttschnitt, in Leslie's. The money
is easily obtained. 1t is raised by
taxation; and when expenditures in
crease, whether for good reasons or
not, taxes can be and are equally in
creased. The railroads, equally ser
wants of the public, cannot raise
money with such ease and facility
They can get it only by rendering the
services Of freight and passenger
transportation. The national and
state governments can make their in
comes cover their expenditures. The
railways must keep their expenditures
within their incomes, because while
they have some control over their ex-
penditures they have almost no con-
troll over their incomes, their passen-
ger and freight rates being fixed by
public authorities. And, while the
arrangements of the railways can to
some extent control their expendi-
lures, they cannot by any means COM
pletely control them. In consequence,
in spite of all the arrangements have
been able to do, operating expenses
have been steadily increasing This
has been largely due to advances in
wages practically all of which have
been awarded by arbitration boards.
Within our knowledge no accidents
to railway trains in this country have
been proven to be due to their being
insufhciently manned. American rail-
ways have spent some $3.50, 100000 in
equipping their locomotives and cars
with automatic couplers and air
brakes, which not only increase safe
ty, but relieve brakemen of the dan
ger and labor of coupling and set
ting brakes by hand. For some years
the railroads enjoyed a return on this
very large expenditure, because by
reducing the number of trainmen that
had to be employed and the total
amount of wages that had to be paid
it tended to reduce operating ex-
penses and increase net earnings.
But in the past few years state
after state has permitted it's servants
the legislatures, to decree that addi-
tional men shall be employed by the
railways in excess of their necessi-
ties, whether viewed from the stand
point of economical operation or of
public safety. AS result of this leg
islation millions of dollars have been
wasted in hiring useless labor-money
which might otherwise have been so
expended as to reduce the cost of rail-
way services or improve it's quality
The real purpose of this legislation
has been to increase the number of
men that railways must employ. The
legislatures have. in effect, robbed
the railways and given the spoil to
unneseccary employees in order that
the members of the legislatures might
get the votes of railway labor.
Again, laws have been passed to
compel the railways to use special
patented headlights on their locomo-
| tives. Acetylene headlights of high
efficiency and closely approaching the
electric headlight in brilliancy and
power were already in use. The rail-
| ways using these efficient and expen-
sive devices were forced to discard
them and incur heavy additional out