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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

ners were having breakfast, that she
stepped from the train that brought
| her from the city to her native home.
The strange thing about it was that
she was not in the least surprised at
the time to see Samuel Spicer stand
ing there, and then to see him run to-
ward her and help her to alight. He
helped her into his old buggy and
took his seat beside her quite as if
nothing had happened.
For few minutes they drove on in
silence Then Samuel turned to her.
Have you come home for good ?"
he asked her.
''Oh. yes said Mehitable ST
couldn't stand being away any long
er from-Beam's Corners
Samuel felt strangely unable to
express himself. He put one large
hand gently over her little glove,
Il am sorry for what did, he final
ly managed to say. 1T was all my
fault" Then as he felt Mehitable
draw away from him he became more
f1uent-told her with feeling that
Mehitable did not know he possessed
that he wanted her to forgive him
and begin all over again.
Still Mehitable held off. eff you
loved me-" she said at length. 81
think you would have come to me in
the city. You could have found out
easily enough where the school
was"
Didn't 1 tell you?" Samuel ex-
claimed in surprise. Didn't you
know? How did you think I hap
pened to be at the station at that
time in the morning? Why, thought.
of course, L told you. I was just COM
ing in to the city myself to find YOU
Samuel laughed as he thought of it.
Its funny how you happened to be
coming in just the very morning I was
going to get YOU He drew a small
cardboard from his pocket. ''See,
here is my ticket, if you don't believe
me, and L have a substitute at the
postoffice. You can see for your
SELF
For a minute they We're both silent.
1T seems a shame to have that
substitute there for nothing" Samuel
finally said. And I have my ticket
all paid for
Cant you go away?" Mehitable
said.
81 don't somehow want to go
alone" said Samuel. Then he looked
steadily at the girl at his side. She
met his look and laughed.
''Wby not, Mehitable ?" Samuel said
after a minute more in which he had
turned the buggy around and was
driving back in the direction of the
station. mo one expects US back
here at Beams Corners. You're all
dressed for travelling. Come on; we
can catch the next express if we hur-
ry.''-Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
CALIFORNIA AND THE JAPANESE.

While congress is trying to pass a
law removing the prohibitive duties
| from the tariff, California is engaged
| in enacting legislation forbidding alien
ownership of land, if the alien in ques-
ton happen to be what is called an
| Oriental.
The proposed California law is aimed
| primarily at the japanese who as
farmers and horticu1turists have come
| into successful competition with the
white people of those classes. 1t
makes an exception in favor of natur-
allied citizens but the federal law for
bids citizenship to the japanese, al
though granting it to all the white or
black people in the world, for the ask
ing.
The bill already has passed one
house of the legislature and there
seems little room for doubt that 1t viii
be adopted by the other one. That
such legislation will be resented BIZ
Japan seems certain. California ap-
pears to be within her rights in the
matter and it is up to the United States
to shoulder the responsibility.
The granting of the privilege of citi-
zenship to the subjects of the mikado
would of course end the controversy
in this case. but then we probably
should have the Chinese to deal with
The exclusion laws seem to be based
on nothing more than prejudice and
a desire to shut out competition.
No more industrious. peaceful, law
abiding people come to our shores than
these same Orientals. There is not
more progressive, up to date nation in
the world than Japan and in any con-
troversy that may grow out of the
present situation she is likely to have
the sympathy of the remainder of the
world. President Wilson is likely to
find himself confronted by a problem
calling for the most careful and intel
ligent handling; also with fine OPP
portunity to play politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
TO BABYLON.

Comrade, now the dawn is nigh,
Light is yelling every star
Pale against the paling sky
Cleans citadel afar.
Where the earth and sky are one,
Comrade, it is Babylon.
Comrade, now the MONDAY blaze
Beats upon us We go;
But I see a city's maze
Gray against the fiery glow,
Shadowy towers. cool streams that run
We are nearing Babylon
Comrade, had we ever guessed
Half the weary miles between!
Now the sun is near the west,
Now the trees the city screen,
Ends the journey, long begun,
We are nearing Bablon.
Comrade, now the night is late,
In the darkness we must be
Very near the city gate,
Where is room for thee and me.
Rest we now to morning sun
We shall wake at Babylon!
Mrs. Andrew Lang.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
POINTERS MAY BE FOUND.

Now that the state penitentiary
must be, to considerable extent, re-
built it might be well for those in
charge of the work to take a look at
the new prison recently completed by
Minnesota, at a cost of 100000.
Quoting from an article in Popular
Mechanics: It was constructed on
lines which make it one of the best
and most modern, intellectually, in
the United States, if not in the whole
world. Its buildings, which are strict
ly fireproof, are plain, but substan-
tiaI and comfortable, following in con-
struction all the laws and rules for
obtaining the best hygienic and sani-
tary conditions.
1t is located two or three miles from
the old, at Saltwater. The site was
selected with particular care as to
location and source of pure spring
water. the prison farm covering 100
acres, and the prison Enclosure proper,
22 acres. From the front is a broad
view of the ST. Croix valley, and in
the pretty country at the rear is a
spring capable of furnishing 10000
gallons of pure, cold water daily.
The buildings are of brick, sur
rounded by a concrete stockade 26
feet in height. There are two cell
houses, each containing 512 cells.
Practically one-third the outside walls
of these houses is glass, and there are
skylights over the halls, the result be-
ing a vast change from the dark, dis
NAL cells of the past.
A hospital, thoroughly equipped,
adjoins the administration building.
The factory buildings and ware
houses for the manufacture Of farm
machinery and binder Irvine, which
are this prisons big industries are
thoroughly modern manufacturing
buildings in every respect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Generally speaking, you're as rich as
| you feel.
The best that houses and land and
money can do for you is to add to your
comfort and convenience but comfort
| and convenience lack a good deal of
being happiness. He only is rich who
is happy, and he only is happy who
feels rich.
The necessities of life are few Given
light and warmth and simple food and
clothing and plenty of fresh air, and
you have just about as much as your
richest neighbor.
| You have little need to worry about
| the rest. The richest man is he that
| has found his work and does it Joy
ously. He has what money cannot buy
! nor poverty take away-the privilege of
being of use in the world Work, real
work, work that builds up and regen-
] ates society, work that in some shape
or other outlives the ages, is easy to
find. 1t is gold that may be yours or
any mans for the asking-it is treas
ure that moth and rust cannot cor
rupt nor thieves break through and
steal
Don't get the wrong notion concern
ing work. 1t is its own reward. If
your efforts are appreciated. that is
so much velvet If they bring you
fame and money, the world has added
| a small and relatively unimportant
premium to the prize of service that
you have won for yourself. The worker
not only is rich, but, more important
still, he feels rich. He possesses all
that he comes into contact with. The
old populistic doctrine which said that
the rights of tie user are paramount to
the rights of the owner is more than
true in his case. For while that prin-
ciple might cause untold trouble if
applied to the legal ownership of
physical property, it is, in a higher
sense than this, as true as gospel.
The user is the owner. No matter
how clear your title to anything you
cannot own it in a psychological sense
unless you use it and use 1t so earnest
~ that it becomes a part of you. The
best and most beautiful things in the
world can't be controlled by private
ownership based upon purchase or
seizure.
Your neighbor may have bought a
beautiful picture or laid out charming
garden, but the moment that you see
either and enjoy it it is yours The
famous libraries of the earth are in
a fine sense not the properties of COM
munities. of government or individuals.
They belong to the minds that have
assimilated each its part of their con-
tents. You may never have see Lon
don, yet if you read, the treasures of
the British museum are yours.
To see, to use, to enjoy-that is to
be rich We are as rich as we feel
and he is poor indeed who does not
feel rich.-(Copyrighted, 1913, by w. z.
Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

If high prices are due to increasing
production of gold, as is being urged
by some political economists. there
seems little chance for an early re-
turn to a lower level Each succeed
ing year marks an increase in the
value of the gold output in the Trans
vaal which is now responsible for
considerably more than one-third of
the worlds supply. While for the year
1911 the value of the gold produced
by the mines of the. Transvaal
reached the total of s17O,2S6.71S, last
years figures are S,S26,947 in ex-
cess of the previous year, the value
of the 1912 output being s1SS,613, 655.
In 1911 the gold output of the world
was estimated as about $437, 7.125,
of which the Transvaal produced S6
per cent, the United States 20 per
cent and Australia IL per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
PoINTE-, PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

lHt lineage News
And many a hornely woman presides
over happy home
One thing worse than a gutter is the
chap who is afraid to begin.
Even a blind man can go out looking
for trouble and find it, too.
To strike a man for loan is one thing.
A successful touch is another.
After fortune has smiled on man he
can afford to laugh and grow fat.
Besides the people who evade the truth
because they are polite, there are others.
Women are difficult to understand be-
cause they never try to make themselves
plain.
No doubt you know quite a lot of men
who have outlived their usefulness-if they
ever had any.
Some people are thankful for what they
get, and a lot of others should be thank
full for what they don't get
Get a woman in a reminiscent mood,
and she will tell you all about the swell
admirers she had before she met the
commonplace man who became her hus-
band
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
KANSAS cOAAENT

SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL BOOKS
The supreme court has decided that
it is unlawful to use any textbook IN
the public schools that has not been
mission. This should end an ancient
and very profitable graft in Kansas.
For several years the patrons of the
city schools of this state have paid
out about as much money for supple
mentary books as they have for
adopted texts. They have been told by
the superintendent that these extra
books are necessary to the advance
ents want their children to get on in
their studies regardless of the cost OF
books they have come across with the
money This decision will be a little
rough on these superintendent who
are in the service of the book COM
panies. There are not few school
men In Kansas who get part of their
salary and about all their prestige
from the support of the book COM
panies engaged in foisting illegal
school books on the people of this
state. These gentry will now either
turn honest on scompulsion or go to
Jail if they persist in violating the law
During the past ten or fifteen years
the people of Kansas have been rob-
bed of enough money by the Ward
reader fraud to build a printing plant
with capacity to manufacture all the
books needed in the state for all time
to come. Is it goodby to the Ward
readers and the rat pick1ngS Tor CROOK
ed superintendents?- Union.
THE INHERITANCE LAW.
The last legislature repealed the old In
heritance tax law and failed to substitute
a new one in its place.
The old law was unfair in that the ex-
emption was too low. But the principle of
inheritance tax is right. Kansas can just
well have a couple of hundred thou
sand dollars a year from inheritances
not and the last legislature was derelict
in NJ doing its duty by providing fah
law.
The people know that it is fair to tax in.
heritances and they want a law that VIII
do this The last law of course is not de
Tended but the principle is in operation In
most of the states, fully three-fourths In
fact.-Lawrence Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IRON the PhiIadeIphia Record I

Ifrom the Philadelphia Record-1
It's when opportunity doesn't knock
that our friends do.
We all descend from our ancestors, but
some of us rise above them.
Mighty few of US are what we think
other people ought to think we are.
The successful man is naturally stuck
his own particular brand of success.
A man takes woman for better or for
worse. and lucky is the fellow who strikes
the happy medium.
1t may sound like an Irish bull, but
most girls know more than they ought
to and not much as they should.
A little learning is dangerous thing.
And this epigram was current long before
the day of the automobile.
An ideal is beautiful thing but the
trouble is that after we attain ii we are
always looking around for another.
Wigg-"The modern woman is living at
a rapid pace" Wagg-"And yet it takes
a woman much longer to reach the age
of 30 than it takes a man."
Amy man can make fool of himself"
remarked the Wise Guy. yes, but IL he
has a woman's help it comes much
easier" added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

The Democrat majority in the ma
tional house has been increased by
one as the result of the election in
the Thirteenth Massachusetts district.
The Bull Moose vote was 5000 below
that of the successful candidate. 1t
is becoming apparent that the big in
surgent vote last fall was largely due
to the coloners personal presence in
the campaign. Hamlet with the
prince left out is not drawing large
houses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

the lists of infectious diseases that
must be reported by physicians.
In concluding it's bulletin, the Ma
tional Association says: Reporting OF
living cases of tuberculosis to the local
and state health authorities is the first
requisite in any adequate campaign to
control the disease. No efforts to pre-
vent the spread of consumption can De
successful until the actual living cases
are both known and properly cared
for"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

The Philadelphia street car company
has taken precautions against the pos
sibility of a May day strike by an
nouncing an advance in wages effec-
tive on the first of the month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

A Los Angeles woman has been re-
fused a divorce which she sought on
the ground that her clergyman-hus-
hand would not allow her to use more
than eight matches a day. 1t must be
that the woman smokes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

The California legislature has
passed a bill prohibiting moving pic
lures from exhibiting girls with fly
ing skirts. In the natural course of
events this should be followed by one
forbidding women to appear on the
streets on a windy day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

If it were not for the United States
navy custom of granting shore leave,
fighting might become lost art IN
Central and South American ports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
ON TIE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON.
The Handy Man.
BY ]


Bill Simms was quite handy man at any
sort of trick,
Could tinker up a balky watch or fix a
windmill quick.
Could white fancy ornaments y aoctor
up calf, " f..
run photograph.
An artist too wl4h chalk or brush quite
wonderful was he.
The only thing Bill couldn't Draw was
j just a salary. se
Bill Simms could make a dandy cEurn
that surely did the work.
Could build automobile that would rrn
WITHOUT jerk
Could make set of bobsleighs that would
always run as slick grease.
Could cut a pair of trousers that would
always hold their crease.
But one thing that Bill couldn't make at
all to save his life
He couldn't make a Twin fer himself and
kids and wife.
Bill Simms could play the violin and al
most any horn,
Could initiate each bird or beast that ever
had been born.
The folks kept him busy dom odd jobs
and all SIGH.
He had no time to settle down In order
to get rich.
His neighbors all asked favors and he
never turned one down;
And Bill spent his declinin' years In Twin
on the town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

Most folks would willingly agree tc
give the government half of any lega-
cIes coming to them in excess of $15,-
100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

IT seems that working girls are not
alone in the need of a minimum wage
law. 1t is said that a New York po-
liceman cannot live decently on his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

The rule of ladies first" does not
seem to apply in Belgium, where big
strike has been inaugurated for the
purpose of obtaining votes for men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

The colonel finds much in the late
Mr.. Morgan to commend regardless
of the fact that he was politically
opposed to me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
From the Hickeyville Clarion.


What has become of the lady who
used to grab the lines away from the
driver? Oh, she's now screaming at
her chauffeur and trying to grab the
brake.
The wise man never tells a woman
that her photograph flatters her.
A versatile and valuable wife is one
who can make a new hat for herself
by twisting the feather into different
angle.
Old Lem Stubs sent Anne Hilliker
bar of soap for Christmas. He says
he tried to give useful gifts. Anne
hasn't used it yet.
Matilda Hanks wants to take vocal
necessary, as she kin holler so loud
now you kin hear her way down to
the pustoffice.
A Teller amt in style now onless he
has got a belt on his overcoat- Hold
Peters says the best he has been able
to git so far is a belt on the ear.
1t takes a mighty versatile Teller to
admire his own wife's clothes after
the first year or two and make her
believe it.
There is a tide in the affairs of
men, which taken at the flood, leads
on to the Kelley institute.
his tail hangs down and whenever his
ears lay down his tail sticks up,
which don't go to prove nothing in
pertickler excepting that he is a good
emblem for the. Democratic party,
which finds it purity hard to be unani-
NOUS about anything.
The polecat has got more individ
uality than almost any animal of
which we know of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full Gay
telegraph report of that great news IT
ganfzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
nose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

DIR. Cook has been ordered out of a
western hotel. Probably he mistook
the register for those lost records.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

The jury that appraised the value
of a wife's love at Is cents had in
mind one particular wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

Labor unions no longer have a mo-
nopoly in strikes. We now have the
school strike, the hunger strike and
the political strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

1.-The senate is now full for the first
time in two years" says tie telegraph.
Considering it's reputation, that is do
ing remarkably well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

Hetty Green must pay 100000 a
year income tax. Uncle Sam is lay
ing the foundation for a case of heart
failure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

Possibly the Baltimore man who
dent to Jail for six days rather than
ride six months on the water wagon
is subject to car sickness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

If Japan decides to boycott Cali
fornia the chances are that California
will be greatly pleased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18

Father" said the small boy what is
meant by the pork barrel in politics.
THE pork barrel, my son, is an imag-
mary receptacle supposed to have pork
as a completed product inside with can
nibaHstic assemblage of the raw material
on the outside. Free Press.