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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Taxes. saws the Coldwater Western
Star, are even surer than deatn, AZ
least they come oftener.
Don't ask the blessing. advises the
Cassoday Times, II you are going 10
growl about the coffee and beefsteak.
Az the Kearny County Advocate says:
It il folly to follow the fashions or
the almanac as an index when 70
change from light to heavy clothing.
Mrs. E. e. Kelley. of the Toronto
Republican, 10 authority for the state
ment that you can see almost anything
on a woman's head nowadays. except
ing horns.
You can't get ahead by following the
crowd, points out the Herington Times.
There's only one way to make the
winter months pass like sixty, urges
the Rossville Reporter-sign a note in
the fall.
Sound sense from the Douglass Tri-
bune: The people are neither demand
ing more laws nor increased methods
Of making laws. We have much more
law than we need or observe. The leg
islation Of the future needs to be on
the line of reduction and simpliflcation
Of the laws already demanded.
In the realms OF descriptive literature
of the unusual variety, the following
ATOH tue RUSSELL correspondent OF Inc
Bunker Hill Advertiser deserves a niche
of it's own: Halloween passed of here
under condition of perfect quiet and
not creature was stirring. not even
a mouse, to disturb the horrors of
nightmare or Danish the glorious pleas
ant sensation Of dreams of boy or girl
hood days. or the enchanting thoughts
OF the little old red school house on
the hill The unearthly stiffness and
escape from the destruction OF private
property was remarkable from the fact
that our electric current was destroyed
and our streets as dark and dismal az
some Of the illustrations of the abode
or the damned given us by Dante The
world may be growing better and our
boys and girls having caught the in
SEPARATION are determined to reach the
delectable abode OF the saints on fow-
cry beds OF ease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12
ON TEE. SPUR
or The MOMENT
1Y ROY r. MoULTON.
According to Uncle Abner.
81 ROY

According to Uncle Abner.
Miss Euphemia Perkins Of our town
expects to go on the stage Dramatics
seems to run in her family. Her
grandfather used to run q shootin' gall
lery and her. uncle Pete used to be q
living skeleton in q dime museum.
a stationary engineer who has been
fired out Of nine jobs in three months.
Strange as 1t may seem. fellers that
try to make their fortune by work: n
in a blacksmithin' shop don't always
forge ahead.
It is easier for a needle to git
through a camers eye than it is for a
Teller with q plug hat and sack suit
to git into society.
If Carnegie intended to die poor, he
started at it in the wrong way. He
ought to have been a poet.
Who ever see married woman that
didn't cry every. time she went to q
weddfn' and then wish the couple
much joy while she was BLOWN her
nose?
They say it takes two to make a
quarrel. but. by gravy. it don't when
your wife gets good and mad.
They can talk about the bantam
weights. hghtweights. welterweights,
| middleweights and heavyweights, but
+ none of 'em has ever knocked out old
John Barleycorn.
| Col. Fri Nudge is the most artificial
liar ever see. Just to keep up his
reputation as ZIP snOrtin' distorter OF
the truth he swore before the tax as
SCISSOR that his property was with four
| million dollars. That's what you call
sacrificin' yourself fer your art.
According TO Uncle Abner.
| Hank Tumms has gotten up q new idee
| FOR getting rid Of fleas. 1t ID q sure cure
and the fleas that he treats never return
He takes the flea and holds q sponge sat
urated with chloroform under its nose.
Then when the flea isn't looking and Is
unconscious he feeds the flea a dose OF
bichloride of mercury out of q teaspoon
| After he has done this he chops OF the
| flea's head with a Ratchet and then locks
The flea up In tin can without any food
! II the mercury and the Ratchet don't Kill
the flea he will starve 1t to death in the
Inc Police Gazette didn't come to the
| barber shop last week and Am Tilson, the
| barber. lost nine customers.
Len Higgins: who chaws spearhead
village. He kin hit the stove door down
| to the railrud depot nine times out'n ten.
| Nobuddy kin read a law book and under
stand it-not even a lawyer. The supreme
court finds that the best lawyers arr
| wrong about half the time.
| A Fable.
| Once upon a time a mans business wal
| ruined by advertising:
go not say ''impossible?.' Not at all
He let his competitors do all the adver-
| Using.
Moral: Advertise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12
.sWuMG 10 THE VOID.


SWUNG 10 THE VOID.
Once. suddenly. found myself alone.
Ont In the void OF . great city. 6uod
With trsmblings and the cry Of many
fears.
Making escape out Of the human deep
climbed heart-troubled to the leafy hills;
And stretching ON Z bank above q stream
! gaxed up to the dome OF the high boughs,
And wondered over HE and HES alarms.
And ~ lay there asking for q sign.
/ saw . spider flash his flmy ropes.
Across the dome: saw him, with raptur-
Gus fall
Drop on q silver cable to the void,
And hang serenely In the rosy beams
OF sunset-hang all still and unafraid.
And 10, q courage came upon my soul.
With long. long thoughts Of this adven-
tufer,
This little dweller in the floorless air.
Held In the peace that holds the earth
ana stars.
Edwin Markham in October Nautilus-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

As the wise men differ. The faculty
of the George Washington university
has given its approval to the tango. the
fish walk and the one step. but has
placed the ban on the turkey trot and
the bunny hug. And while the faculty
OF Kansas university got red in the
face with wrath against the possibility
of the boys and girls under its juris-
diction dancing the tango. and issued
a ukase forbidding 1t. not word was
pronounced against the bunny hug or
the turkey trot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Reform, like charity. should begin
at home.
All varieties of live Holsters are
more or less green.
A hotel fs seldom any better OF
worse than its guests pay for.
A bleached blonde Is easily discov-
cred by the color of her eyebrows.
Most of the ''best sellers" OF q dozen
years ago have long since been 1or-
gotten.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Old Doc Tanner is one brave man.
He would marry Mrs. Pankhurst. And
his ability to stage long distance fasts
makes him an ideal candidate for this
great honor. She wouldn't have much
time to stay at home and cook his
meals
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Although Governor Felker Of New
Hampshire has honored New York's
to Matteawan has been delayed in
requisition for Harry Thaw. his return
definitely. He has finally gotten his
case in the federal courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Nor is there any likelihood that
Colonel Lillian Russell has overlooked
the fact that her refusal to pay an in
come tax will also provide her with
much that Is valuable In the way Of
free advertising. Incidentally. her lat
est husband is some business man az
well as a connoisseur of beauty. Colo-
mel Lillian's income is 500. 900 a year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

you as a bidder for the concession of
cutting the lumber on $1,000 acres of
land in the Philippines. Thus does a
paternal government open the way for
q rich man to become richer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

An automobile at a fashionable sea-
side resort had a race along the
beach with a sea serpent fifty feet
Long, But the worst of it Is that the
newspapers printed the names of the
men in the machine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Is Bill Sulzer becoming a candidate
for the funny house? He declares that
he is still the legal governor Of New
York, and is demanding the pay that
goes with the job. Bill hasn't been
discharging the duties of governor for
more than a month. But it seems that
he cannot get over hankering for
money to which he is not morally en-
titled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

If Kansas had experienced anything
like the blizzard that has just ragged
through Ohio, Pennsylvania and other
eastern states. the last Of it would not
have been heard for a full year. or
longer. Almost everybody in other
parts would have been exclaiming:
"Why people will persist in living ia
Kansas where such terrible storms
prevail is a mysteryr'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12
kllExAS CQeGpGENT
REPRESENTING KANsAa


Governor George II. Hodges ana
Ex-Governor Edward w. Hoch. Il not
two OF the same political party ami.
alton, 30 to Columbus ~ ono 90 far
as their sentiments toward the pro-
hibttton issue are concerned. THESE
two men will represent Kansas ON
November 10 to 18th at the Biennial
Convention Of the Anti-saloon league
Of America Both the governor and
the ex-governor are qualified to stand
before the delegation Of 10000 men
ana women who attend the meeting
and explain how prohibition works in
Kansas. and they could keep the as
semDlaee probably occupied for sew
eral hours. But II any question arises
as to the workability Of prohibition
in Kansas. all Governor Hodges needs
to do 10 to repeat his famous words.
uttered In answer to the attitude Of
Governor Simeon Baldwin at the
Congregational church convention
at Kansas City: Governor Baldwin's
contention sounds like the slavery
arguments OF seventy-five years aso.
Human rights had to be considered
in preference to state rights in set
thing that question, and welfare of
humanity must be given preference
In settling tho liquor question."-Ot-
tawa Republic.
A GOVERNORS DUTY.
Governor Ralston, of Indiana, NOM
inally q progressive Democrat, refuses
to become interested in the strike
riots In indianapolis, insisting that II
is the duty Of the city and county au-
thorittes to protect life and property.
Ralston. in light Of the evident fail
ure OF those officials to do their duty.
accepts no responsibility-not SO
much as to urge them to do it. He
appears to simply sit back in his chair
and look the other way on the theory
that 1t is purely a local matter. The
governor of Indiana is playing the
part OF q cheap politician. Az gov
ernor of Indiana his responsibility in
this matter is greater than that Of
the mayor or the sheriff. It is his
duty to see that they do theirs and
to remove the sheriff in case Of his in
dtnerence. The authority Of law to
stop rioting in a large city is ample
and the power Of the law il adequate.
Only selfish political considerations
on the part Of those whose duty It IL
to protect life and property in any
such emergency intervene to prevent
them from doing their duty. The
governor, like the mayor and the
sheriff, fs afraid he will lose a few
votes in the next election II he inter-
feres-Ft. Scott Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Still, insists the Boston Transcript.
Ireland would be a bad place for Boss
Murphy to retreat to, as they are go
ing to have Home Rule there the
same as in New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

New Jersey women may be modestlJ
dressed in styles fifteen years behind
the times. But New York has q lot
more population.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

And the public announcement that
Ortie Mechanical is going to Soutl
America may be intended to deceive
any interested in his whereabouts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

AS bit Of beiated campaign news
It must be well to remember that Colo
mel Roosevelt seems to be running
strong in South America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Bill Sulzer also seems to have
He announces that after deliberate re-
slipped one over on the Progressives.
Election he is going to be Democrat
again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

It must make Boss Murphy Of Ne
York feel really annoyed when
thinks of how easy Huerta got ava
with it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

II the income tax is to be collecte
from its source. will there have tc b
. double rakeoff in every poker game
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal II q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news NJ
ganixat1on for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news 10 received In The STATE Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puS-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Mrs. Pankhurst will need to collect
many American dollars to hire Eng
lishmen to engage in the hazardous
business of bearing arms against the
crown rs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

John Lind is still the elusive LITTLE
pea in the Mexican shell game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12
EVENING CHlT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.
More Sparkling stones.

More Sparkling Stones.
It is always a pleasure to watch
little children at play even II you only
take a surface interest in them as you
would in the gambols Of a batch Of
1t is still greater pleasure II you
care to study them and watch the
moods and motives that govern adult
life. making their appearance In this
miniature world.
On the beach one pleasant morning
this summer two youngsters some
where about the mystic age of 8, were
having a grand time in the sand, de-
lightfully unconscious of my shameless
eavesdropping.
They had been picking up the shiny
pebbles which the retreating tide had
left sparkling In that tickle splendor
parts.
Said Tow-head to Dutch-cut, trot-
ting towards him with his pail full Of
pebbles. See my pail. I've got more
sparkling stones than you have"
''Have you. thought said Dutch
cut. you look here at mine.'
A comparison followed, after which.
both contestants having pugnaciously
claimed the honor. each fell to work
again in a frantic endeavor to get the
most.
Could there be a more accurate
miniature Of life?
The pleasure they had In the beau
tiful little pebbles themselves waa
| small. The real Joy came in having
| more sparkling stones than you've
got.'
When Mrs. Brown shows M1.
White her new diamond ring and
| thereby daxzles poor Mrs. White, whn
only has two diamonds and q ruby.
| with her tantalizing display II four
diamonds. an emerald and q sapphire,
abe j. really saying in pantomime,
I've got more sparkling stones than
you have" And when Mrs. White
goes home and leases her husband 70:
a new ring for Christmas. she II jus:
displaying the eternal trait that made
Tow-head and Dutch-cut scramble af-
ter more sparkling stones.
And SO 1t IL everywhere. Tow
heads sparkling stones are symbols
Of all the baubles we hold SO dearly
| The chief pleasure many people gel
out Of life il in having more posses
sions, more money. more talent. more
beauty. more power than someone else
I sometimes wish the word more
could be stricken from the English
language. Comparisons are certainly
odious. They give only a tainted and
unreal happiness and an unhappinesa
that IL just az keen az II 1t had q le-
Ultimate cause.
There are plenty Of people who
would enjoy sunsets and the grandeur
Of the ocean and the wine OF an Oc-
| tober day very much more II they
could only buy them and have more
Of them than other folks.
It's q queer world, isn't It? Ninety
| nine people out OF one hundred would
have laughed at the youngsters and
their scramble to get more sparkling
| stones than each other. Not one In q
hundred ever pause to laugh at his
own scramble for the same goal.
Suspicion Confirmed.
Little Laura was SO quiet out in the
kitchen that her mother suspected the
child Of some mischief.
what are you doing, dearie?" the
mother called.
"Numn,'' Laura answered.
But you must be doing something -
mo amt"
Are you sure?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Pretty soon 1t won't be too early to
do your Christmas shopping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12

Can one place any Dependence in
binka!' Yes: but Il win not stay placed
for long.""-Buffa1o ExpreDs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12
Suspicion Confirmed.

Little Laura was 80 quiet out In the
kitchen that her mother suspected the
child Of some mischief.
what are you doing. dearie?" the
mother called.
Muffin Laura answered.
But you must be doing something"
mo / amt"
Are you sure?'
well, / isn't doin' much.s'
Tell me this instant what you are
doing or mamma VIII have to come
with the hair brushr'
+ After q moments silence the little
one replied:
I'm just dwivin hairpins into the
soap VIII 4arjorie's looking glass;
Youngstown Telegram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12
A Eable.

Once upon a time mans business was
ruined by advertising.
SO not cay ''impossfble?' Not at all.
He let his competitors do all the adver-
Using.
Moral: Advertise.
Evening journal., 1913-03-05
GRAND JURY ENDS
MARCH TERM WORK

The New Castle grand jury con
cluded business at noon today. with
the return of the following indict-
ments;
Assault and battery, Samuel Reed
William Reed. George Mo0re
Larceny-Georgc E. Deats
Embezzlement as bailee-John Law
less.
Judge Boyce thanked the grand
jury for the prompt manner in which
the cases had been considered The
new law, which gives prisoners the
right to plead guilty without the
grand jury considering the cases, cut
down the work of the jury consider
ably. as fourteen prisoners availed
themselves of the law
Frank MAJOR, "A Young man. was
placed ON trial today on the charge
OF the larceny OF $50 from join
Kogust. Deputy Attorney General
Frank NJ Jones conducted the prose.
cution, and Aaron Finger appeared
for the prisoner. MAJOR pleaded not
guilty, his defense being an alibi Tn,
case viii go to the jury this after.
noon
Evening journal., 1913-03-05
WILSON, in OFFICE FIRST
DAY, SKATERS PRECEDENTS

we're given free run OF the outer
offices. where they snapped photo
graphs Of the presidents callers.
They also swarmed into Tumulty's
Office and posed and took photographs
of him at work
There was practically no red tape
at the executive offices today. The
usual White House form for official
statements. where the Information II
conveyed IN the third person, was fol-
lowed In the first statement today, but
little later the unprecedented plan
Of the President, making a personal,
first person announcement was adop-
ted. The President and Tumulty also
announced that they were working
out plan by which the executive
would sec the newspaper correspon-
dents at regular periods, and by which
MIR Wilson would permit direct quo.
tation of his views
For a score of years no President
has permitted direct quotation Of in
terviews.
Secretary Tumulty's most unusual
bit Of precedent breaking was in
making himself at home In the outei
offices Of the White House Hereto
fore the secretary to the President
/ has been almost as hard a parsonage
to see as his chief But Tumulty pul
in more than half his time talking
TO newspapermen and comforting viii
! visitors in the outside corridors.
Evening journal., 1913-03-05
HAPPY WORKERS
TO ELECT OFFICERS

With the month OF March comes
again the assembling Of the little
Happy Workers Home and Foreign
Missionary Society Of West Presby-
teriai Church and this time there will
be enjoyable exercises appropriate to
hester tide, which win be celebrated
this month A special feature and a
most important one will be an cleo
tion OF officers. of whom there are
eight to be chosen by ballot.
The delightful program as has been
arranged, win be in charge of Myrtle
Brown, the chairman II follows:
Easter hymn. by the Society: pro-
cessional, choir of 1G girls: devotion
al exercises, conducted by chairman;
reading Of minutes by the Secretary:
election Of officers voting by BALLOT I;
hymn. "The Lilies Message. by the
Society: talk on the topic Of the day.
Foreigners in the United states, "
Myrtle Brown: piano solo. "The
Pansy,' Ruth Christy: reading, "The
Child With the Lily; violin solo.
Gertrude Pyle: recitation. april
Breeze Madeline Reid, trio. Mildred
Style, Tholma Georgia and Madeline
Reid, concert recitation, In the
Spring Martha Hill. Ruth Griniths,
Jean Middleton, Helen Laherty: Offer
ing exercises, led by Mildred Denny;
roll call; closing hymn by the 50.
ciety; prayer
Evening journal., 1913-03-05
FORCING The
RIvERFRONT
LEGISLATION
Friends of City in Movement
Object to Committee
SmOthering Subject
CALL UP PETITION
In MEETING TONIGHT

Members of City Council will prob
ably consider in committee meeting
tonight the petition signed by many
prominent men of the city asking City
Council to take such action as will
secure for the city and state lands
along the Delaware river front be-
tween the present low water mark
and the bulkhead which the govern
ment started to build and then quit
as soon as it learned that only pri-
vate interests wouio be benefited by
the 6ll-in.
The petition was presented several
weeks ago and there SENS to be a
disposition upon the part of one or
two of the members of the Council
to keep it in the hands Of the COM
mittee. Those who signed the peti-
ton are waiting for something to oc
cur and should nothing be done with
respect to the petition this week there
is likely to be a further move made
by those who want the city to get
the land at present under water be-
longing to the State.
OOlbn1i W. T.. DAoNtIt member OF
Council from the Seventh ward last
Thursday night presented a bill pro-
viding for the repeal of the sections
in the Bulkhead act of 1901, deciding
the land TO the Wilmington Terminal
Company and its associates, and he
asked Council TO approve it. This also
was referred to the Council as a com
mittee of the whole and when the pc
tition is brought up for consideration
It is most likely that the bill in dues-
ton also Will come up for discussion
As there are one or two Councilmen
who are opposed to the city getting
the land and il is thought they will
do everything to prevent action upon
the matter They would rather hay,
the matter kept in the committee than
come before the Council in regular
meeting which would require them ia
publicly show their hand.
Should President of Council Samuel
ii. Benson, Jr., fail to call the matter
up in the committee meeting tonight
1t is quite likely that some action viii
be taken on the floor of Council TO-
morrow night.
Evening journal., 1913-03-05
TROLLEY ASSOCIATION
TO ENTERTAIN OFFICIALS

The Employees Relief Association Of
the Wilmington and Philadelphia
Traction Company last ngnt arranged
the details of the annual meeting and
banquet which will be held in the
clubhouse. Fifth and Orange streets,
on Thursday Of next week The ban
quet will continue throughout the day
to allow all members an opportunity
to partake Of the spread
I'm the evening the associations or
chestra will provide music and ad-
dresses will be made by Van Horn
Ely, president of the National Proper
ties Company owners of the local line,
as well as by T. T. Wilson. vice-presi-
dent and William A. Heindlo, general
manager.
Thomas F. Donohoe Is chairman Of
the reception committee and c. A.
Green. chairman Of the entertainment
committee.