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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
SAYS UNCLE CAV

It is just possible that in our pity
for the physically blind we forget to
feel sorry for those who are in far
greater need of our sympathy. The
real unfortunates are not those across
whose eyes the curtains of darkness
have been drawn, but rather those
who, having eyes to see, see not.
Helen Keller the deaf and blind,
finds life rosy vista, where millions
who walk without feeling their way
see only a dull, drab, unending piano.
rama of desolation. Existence was
never so monotonouS as to him who
observes 1t only as an unceasing pro-
cession Of embarrassing changes
veered hither and thither from time
to time by human creaturts for whom
he has no concern-the whole being
an epic of WEAKNESS and ennui.
Let yonder blind man go by, selling
his papers and dreaming his dreams
He is a small part of a world very
much alive-he thrills a little at the
touch Of the hand that drops the cop
per into his; he waits daily with
pleasurable expectancy for the sound
of familiar voices; he takes JOY of
the tiny hoard of small coin that
meets his daily needs, and when night
drives his patrons home he goes to
his pallet to see again the glories of
unforgotten sunsets reflected still be-
hind the veil of those SCARED and
not for him. He has met misfortune
and grappled with it and vanquished
1t. He keeps a place in the multi
tudinous affairs of men, and none
can say of him that he stands apart
refusing to do the duty of a man.
Save your pity-it is not for him.
Bestow it, rather, upon yon ennuied
creature, to whom the glory of sunset
is but the chaos of meaningless color,
who takes no pleasure in the sight of
children at play, whose glances the
humming swarms of the streets do
not for an instant claim, who cannot
pause to see how grimy poets build
their dreams into the steel and stone
of the SkyscraperS, who has a yawn
for science and a sneer for art. Pity
him to whom the whole wonder spec
tacle of this majestic world is I'M
folded, yet whose deadened eye can
ing to the full his physical powers, is
in the world, yet not of 1t.
This is the loneliest creature of earth
and the saddest. 1 had rather dig
bitches in denim, so my eyes could
behold the rose of dawn and the
moving drama of mems work, and my
bread be sweet because 1 had knowl-
edge that I ate it not alone than clip
coupons and wear broadc1oth and
which delights my fellows. The isola-
ton of such a one is appalling. He
has doomed himself to perpetual soli-
tary confinement in the "black hole"
of existence. His ennervated soul
feeds upon itself; there is no light for
him in earth nor in the heavens. It
were we'll for him if he might barter
for little light.-(Copyright. 1913, by
the Mcclure NewsDaper SvndicateO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
LAABORs SHARE.

The Pennsylvania railroad system
paid out last year s1s8,749,312 in
wages. For the last fiscal year re-
ported in the Manual of Railroads,
the total interest, rental and dividend
payments and other charges which
might be considered in any way a re-
turn to capital invested in either
stocks or bonds of the parent company
or any of its subsidiary or leased lines
in fact all payment to capital-was
$10S,209, 372.
The figures tell their own story.
Labor has a bigger stake in the pros
perity of this great railroad system,
measured by its earning power, says
the Philadelphia Bulletin, than has
capital Labor gets the greater share
of the revenue.
Now money works for wages, just
as do men, and when money gets "cut
down. or fails to get what it considers
a fair wage for its services, it strikes
Just as men do. Substantially, that is
a situation which the railroad f1nan-
ciers have been meeting for several
years in what is termed the hesitancy
of capital to enter railroad invest
ments. The disproportion between
the payments to labor and capital in
the division Of railroad earnings can
not continue increasing without pro-
voking the partner of labor to call
halt. If labor is to receive increased
dividends, railroad earnings must in
crease.
Discussing the financial situation
from a similar viewpoint, the Bache
Review says:
IF capital is to be penalized, 1t will
go on strike and, as its twin pro-
Queer of prosperity, labor, sometimes
does, will refuse to work. In fact,
some of the disadvantages under
which we are now suffering are due
to this strike having already begun"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
ers and wi

Menocal, the new president of Cuba,
has told the Cubans that he will call
for intervention by the United States at
the first sign of a revolution. It will
be interesting to watch the working
of this threat. 1t is generally believed
that Intervention by the United States
again would become permanent. That
it would be a good thing for the islands
there is little room for doubt. A ma
jority of the Cuban people, including
most of the politicians probably perfer
self government. But that there is an
annexation party composed of business
men and foreigners seems certain.
May not this latter element start trou-
Bile for the express purpose of bringing
about that which Menocal promises?
The Cuban president was educated in
the United States and it is not i'm
possible that his election was brought
about for the very purpose at which he
hints
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

The mental twist exhibited by the
Smithville banker who said he was too
unselfish to run a bank and there
fore violated the banking law in order
to accommodate borrowers, says the
ST. Louis Republic. is a common one
among spendthrifts and defaufters.
The man without the courage to say
no and the man who makes free with
other peoples money or wastes his
own in order to appear before his fell
lows as kindly and unselfish are real
ly indulging a form of selfishness
which is more harmful than the
grasping greed of the money grubber.
Their selfishness consists in the man
ner in which they coddle their super
sensitive souls and refuse to bear the
pain which is incident to the perform
ance of duty. The world is full of
such men and their praises are sound
ed everywhere until the day comes
when their efforts to shield their own
fIabby selves visit ruin upon the peo-
pie who trusted them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
FROM OTHER PENS
KING THEODORE.


Col. Theodore Roosevelt said a long
while ago that when he set out on his
career it was with the intention of be-
longing to the governing class" In
MS chapters from a Possible Autobio-
graphy," now in course of publication,
he uses the same words WITH the plain
implication that he considers himself
of that class. Therefore there is moth
ing so very extravagant in the sugges-
ton of the Daily Citizen, a leading
English labor paper, that he propose
himself as a candidate for the throne
of Albania. A man who can create an
aristocracy and take the only place in
it is certainly worthy of favor as
some duke or prince who happened to
be born to that estate. The only thing
he lacks in the way of eligibility is 4
title, and that is just the thing that
can be conferred. Once seated in the
presence chamber with his big stick
for scepter and his SLOUGH hat for a
crown he would be figure to reckon
with Albania's population would grow
by royal edfct. Good trusts would pros-
per and bad trusts would run down q
steep place into the sea- A constitution
written on sheet rubber would expand
or contract at the behest of royal auth
GRITTY, while judicial interpretations
thereof would be both readable and
unnecessary. The army would consist
exclusively Of rough riders and nature
taking would be a capital offense.
AAAebAAyS lHSTe WOULD De INCORPORATED
into the fundamental law q clause de-
claratory of the meaning of the words
under no circumstances" with accom-
panying illustrations drawn from, the
relation OF three cups of coffee to three
terms in office, that being a matter
which King Theodore would doubtless
like to see settled even though he had
passed to station where it was NOT
personally signif1cant.-St. Louis Re-
public.
DAYLIGHT FOR THE DETECTIVES
The industries which are threaten
ing to reduce wages under the new low
tarlff would make a better case for
themselves if they could show that
tney ever increased wages under a
nlgh tariff 1t is a well established
TACT that the thinnest of all American
payrolls are. those of protected" en-
terprlses, and in nearly every instance
Where there has been any betterment
IL mas resulted not from tariffs hut
from strikes
Secretary Redfield now Joins Con-
gresham Underwood in assuring the
wage cutters that every such attempt
10 discredit the new tariff law will
De investigated. If we are to have a
department of commerce and labor
what better service can it perfornn7
BUSINESS men who insist upon being
retained in partnership with the gov
eminent or as recipients of its bounty
nave no reason to complain if it's rem
resentatives ask to see their booxs
New York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
HYHAWKER JOTS

The war talk has brought about an
attempt to reorganize the militia
company at lola.
Once more Kansas is about to play
joke on the man who classed it in
the "semi-arid' region.
The Girard Times has been moved
to Pittsburg where it will continue to
appear as a Democratic weekly.
Independence is in a fuss with its
street car company and the newspa-
pers are threatening all sorts of trou-
BILE. 1t all seems familiar.
Hog buying at Cherryvale is carried
on over the telephone. One man pur-
chased 10 head from various farmers
in one evening by this means.
Following the building of the Santa
F'e's Dodge City extension Stanton
county is to have a bank. Every coun-
ty in the state now is supplied.
The Cherryvale Journal records the
catching of two-headed turtle near
that city. Evidently the Mahin law is
not working in that part of the state.
In the "'boneheaded' contest we
hereby cast the unanimous vote of
this paper for the mayor and COM
missioner of Chanute, who by the ex-
ercise of their votes deprived that
town and half a dozen others north
of Cherryvale from getting a Siggins
terurban.-Cherryval Republican.
Walt Mason, who may or may not
speak from experience, says: Hard
cider carries its own punishment, and
1t never will become popular even in
Kansas. 1t is the worst beverage ever
invented by man. Ordinary alcoholic
drinks give the consumer a headache
blue remorse. Hard cider gives him
all of these and a lot more. It dis
organizes his whole system and makes
him wretched for weeks"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

We imported more foreign luxuries
in the past year than ever before We
are running more than a million auto
mobiles in this country, mostly for
pleasure. We have been highly pros
porous. The farmers have had big crops
and high prices, and they have spent
money freely, and that has made bust
ness good for other people. Most lines
of manufacture were very busy all
last year. Railroads may be making
lower rates of profits than a year ago,
but their aggregate profits are large.
There are more of us than ever before,
and more of our total number can keep
lmousines and import diamonds, feath-
ers and wine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

Much attention is being given to the
providing of system for lending
money to farmers. In other words, n
system that will induce the farmer to
go into debt. Time was when he need
ed no inducement. He did not ask how
much, but how long a time. And he
made fine picking. Now he is getting
into the lending class himself and his
business is missed by the bankers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

Mayor Gaynor has killed the morals
police bill, creating a special police
force in New York city for the enforce
ment of the law against specific forms
of immortality. One set of police Off
Gals such as they have in New York
is about as much as any city could
ct md
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

After the seventeenth amendment
gets to working, says the Boston
Transcript, visitors in Washington
won't be able to distinguish a real
senator from a common, ordinary
member OF congress-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

1t was hardly fair to King George
to make two Zeppelin dirigibles part
of his escort in his progress through
Berlin. Nothing seems to strike so
much terror to the heart of the Lion
as a German airship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

Schwab says the steel trust can
make rails 81 or SIS cheaper than its
competitors can, but the railroads
continue to pay SIS a ton. The roads
and the trust, to a large extent are
nwned by the same men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

hills overlooking the river bottom, and
the farmers sons several times have
seen what they believed to be Shep and
the wolf romping side by side along
this ridge.
Shep was marked with white front
feet--Glenwood. Qowa) Cor. New York
Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the tuIl oay
telegraph report of that great news 1r-
Eanization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received In The stare Jour-
nal h11iIdine over wires for this sole pur-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

When all the women vote, probably
whiskers again will become fashionable.
Men must have some way of showing
their superiority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

Apparently, the only way to induce
the Industrial Workers to work is to
put them in prison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

There is competition everywhere San
Francisco goes Topeka one better ana
will have three policewomen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
ON THE SPUR
OF TIE NOMENT
Signs of the Times.
BY ROY K. AdOULTON.


King Alfonso was, according to reports,
injured in the sunken garden. Doctors
have not stated whether that is a vital
spot.
Sam Blythe says Mr.. Bryan is fecum-
dfous, orgulous and verbigerous. Outside
of that, he is doubtless all right
President Huerta of Mexico is tired of
his job and the job seems to be equally
tired of him.
A bohemian is man who knows how
to eat spaghetti without getting it on the
floor or over into the next flat.
There are a few millionaires in this
country who are not running garages, but
not very many.
1t is stated by one of the truthful scribes
in that locality that Pittsburg man may
be cited before the probate judge for ex-
animation as to his sanity. 1t is said
that he seems to be determined to buy and
pay for home instead of buying an
automobile His case is so unusual that
it has attracted much attention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27

POwrRy AND POWER

A man who lives in Washington has
gained much wealth, we guess, by sending
forward, day by day, a letter to the press.
Now, usually this gink's report is dull and
drear and dead, and few would care to
see it and sellom is it read. But recently
he's had a change-perhaps since Houston
came-and letters queer and Wild and
strange now bear the writer's name. For
instance. in our mail, last night, as we
were walking home, we found this rather
cheerful bit-or shall we say poem2 It
isn't bad, we've seen far worse-we don't
remember where-a pleasant bit of jing-
ling verse to drive away dull care. And
now for fear that you will think we don't
intend to quit, we'll quote the poem"
from Washington-this, gentle readers It:
1.-The auto on the farm arose before the
dawn, at four. 1t MIXED the cows and
washed the clothes and finished every
chore. Then forth it went into the field
just at the break of day. 1t reaped and
threshed the golden yield and hauled II
all away. 1t plowed the field that after
noon, and when the job was through. it
hummed a pleasant little tune ana
elEurned the butter, too. And pumped the
water for the stock, and ground crib OF
corn. And hauled the baby around the
block to still its cries forlorn. Thus ran
the busy hours away by many a labor
blest, and yet when fell the twilight gray,
that auto had rest. For while the
farmer, peaceful eyed, read by the tung-
stems glow, the patient auto stood out
side and ran the dynamo.'-Kansas Indus
trialist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
A POINT OF CONTRAST.


Why, of course. President Wilson
will go to baseball games this sum-
mer. He's human. Moreover he's
wise. He sees the need, the absolute
need, of somewhere, sometimes, getting
on all tours with his fellowmen; Of
now and then losing the prestige, the
dignity. the oppressive isolation of the
greatest office on earth in a common
submerging fellowship Did you ever
stop to ask yourself how you'd meet
this need if you were president of the
United States; how you'd get away
from the flatterers, the fawners, the
cunning fellows with concealed axes to
grind. the great invironing horde Of
men and women irrepressibly seeking
something of you, and therefore, wilful-
ly or unconsciously co1oring their every
statement to you with the tinge of their
private hopes? 1t must be awful, that
loneliness. No wonder so many mon
archs are fooled-are kept ignorant of
the real life and thought of their times.
Poor chaps, they've no ball games to
go to.-Winf1eld Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.


Hold Peters has started a vegetable
garden out back of his house. He will
work on 1T about three days and then his
wife will do the rest.
Miss Euphemia Perkins, our poetess of
passion. says she will write for a living in
the future. Friends will kindly omit
flowers.
Deacon Stubs mule Hyacfnth is suffer
ing from the artistic temperament and
Doc Hanks has been called in. Doc says
ne cured the Deacon, so he ought to be
able to cure the mule
The Teller who burns the candle at both
ends may be extravagant but it is chesp-
er than electric lights, at that.
Chiggers
News items from the tall grass inforn,
US that the annual war against cbiooars
is on in earnest in all rural districts Tba
chigger is not any part of an autonof1iie
as the name implies, but is a small ANNA
sharp teeth and an appetite like a colored
minister Chiggers cut quite a ffcger q :
Sunday school pfcnics. The young man
and his best girl sit down on the grass
under tree to consume the pork and
beans, and deviled eggs when the CHG
ger comes along, fastens himself to some
upholstered portion of the young mans
anatomy somewhere between the ankle
and the collar bone and proceeds to CHG
The young man mutters something that
doesn't sound well at a Sunday school
picnic and grabbing himself firmly by the
affected territory starts for the woods
with cry OF anguish. there to hunt out
tree winch mas roush Dark and to rub
himself up and down thereon until the
chigger is reduced to such a state. Of
mental and physical decentralization that
he IS unable longer to CHG. One chigger
can CHG over every square inch of a
mans frame in less time than it takes
the Standard Oil company to declare a
dividend and this has been estimated at
one second and half. eastern standard
time. Once the chigger is caught it is an
easy matter to kill him. One good way
is to hit him in the head with an AK
but a more humane way is to tickle him
under the chin until he opens his mouth.
Then fill his mouth with snuff and let
him sneeze himself to death The chigger
is thre. sizes smaller than a spinal
meningitis microbe and comes in differ
ent shades, all the way from chocolate
fudge to patent leather polish.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-02-15

n. III. ; PAPER Forty Years Hence.

NTH 5 Paper Forty Years Hence. 4
Mr.. VIM. Jones was arrested today
for blocking the traf1c in the main
business street. He was running bis
automobile only 81 miles an hour and
couldn't get out Of the way.
Bold burglars entered the home Of
Mr. Erasmus Hanks at an early hour
this morning and secured about $l,TO0
worth Of yaluables, including one dog
en- eggs and half pound of butter
They didn't get any coal. as Mr.
Hanks keeps his coal downtown in .
safety deposit box.
The president hopes next week to be
able 10 force the price Of kerosene and
gasoline down b. making the Stand
ard Gil company come to terms.
Uncle Joe Cannon, who turned hif
back on politics, away back in 1913, Is
thinking some Ct running FOR president
next election.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-02-15
The Stage
MUTT AND JEFF"

When the head OF the greatest the.
GtricaI syndicate on earth proclalms
Mutt and, jeff" the financial success
OF the current season. It would seem
that no further evidence OF merit was
necessary. Such an expression car.
rles weight and 1t goes without saying
that artistic success must have proceed
ed financial success. The Fisher car
toon comedy is establishing new box
office records all over the country.
Four companies OF forty-tve people
each are now playing the four corners
OF the United States. Capacity bust
ness Is an assured fac: before the show
reaches town. 1t may easily be in
rcrred from this that the play is more
than making good Gus Hill has made
an elaborate production, so firm was
his belief in the ultimate success OF
the play that he expended q fabulous
sum Of money in fitting out four COM
panies before a dollar was in sight. Mr..
Halls judgment vas unerring in this
as it has been in his former successes.
Mutt and Je1l with their fellow con-
spirators, singers. dancers and squads
will arrive in Fatrmont on Monday
next and Will appear at the Grand for
an engagement OF one night.
A carload of magnificent scenery
properties and light effects embelItsh
the general effect. Patrons OF the
Grand are advised to fatch for the salG
of scates at. Chrlstic's drug store
Kindly remember that Mutt and Jetf"
never plays TO empty seats. therefore
If you want good seats, or any at ALL
you must buy Immediately.