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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
HYHAWKE.R DTS

A favorite pastime at the Winf1eld
college is ducking students 1t is not
Baptist college, at that.
They steal the whisky from the
freight depot at Dodge. That is new
way to fight the prohibitory law.
The Parsons Commercial club enter
tanned the farmers of the county at
dinner last week and 1000 of them at
tended.
The Wellington Journal chronicles
that Nat Goodwin has led blushing
bride to the altar. Being number she
had reason to blush.
When you hear the seniors class
prophecy read. says the Parsons Sun.
doesn't 1t make you blush to recall
what was said about you?
Three Ottawa ministers attended a
band concert in the park Sunday at
ternoon and the Herald finds In the cir
cumstances food for reflection on how
times have changed.
True charity consists not so much
of giving old, discarded clothes you
wouldn't wear yourself to dark-skinned
heather, says the Burr Oak Herald, as
it does of giving your neighbors the
benefit of any doubt.
Records at the office of the chan
cellor show that out of the 1888 stud
ents attending the University of Kan
sas this year. 81 per cent are wholly
or partly self supporting. In this num-
ber 100 to $50 of the 765 x. U. young
women are included.
1t has long been a custom to de-
post various articles in the corner
stone of public buildings when con-
struction begins. One of the stones was
opened at Coffeyville recently and
Bible, some papers and a prayer book
were found. The stone was part of an
Episcopal church.
The Newton Kansan bubbles and
gushes as follows: With that new band
stand and a new bubbling, gushing
drinking fountain over in Military park,
and nice dam with a splendid body OF
water and new curbing and walks along
Athletic park, the public park system
of Newton will begin to take on some
what the appearance of what it ought
to be-delightful, clean, healthful re-
sorts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcH1soN GLOBE.

About all some men have is strong
personality.
A good way to keep your friends is not
to need them.
An agent has a steady nerve, and keeps
1T working that way.
A lame duck is usually convinced that a
republic is ungrateful.
That Look of Longing may be due to
stomach trouble instead of soulful
thoughts.
Still. the casualty list isn't often as
large the demand for damages might
indicate. a..
Time never gets so hard as to warrant
going to the penitentiary to get steady
employment.
The rooster which wakens you too early
isn't the only one that needs very little
excuse for Growing.
When a mans wife runs a boarding
he had married an actress
Our notion of a successful teacher is
one who can make history and geogra ply
as interesting Nick Carter.
Colorado has to do most of her Dragging
on the climate in summer, and can never
hope to catch up with California.
What has become of the o. t. novel in
which, the guardian married his ward, al
though he was old enough to know bet
ter?
After a man as been married awhile, he
is less particular about being greeted with
a kiss, and wants the meals on time.
Probably army officer calls it leave
of absence because the term vacation
might suggest he had been working be-
fore it began.
Opportunities for sin in other lines aver
age considerably larger than the chance
of playing on the receiving end of a brib-
cry transaction
Speaking of lovely woman, the poet
does, the soprano usually thinks the choir
needs a new contralto. Or you can play
1t the other way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
THE PANAMA CANAL.

The locks and lock gates on the
Panama canal may not be completed
until January. 1914. Owing to the
failure of the McClintic-Ma
Construction company to complete the
hook gates within the original speci-
fed time and the differences arising
over liquidated damages, as to
whether the government or contractor
is responsible for delays, the 18th
milan Canal commission is about to
enter a supplemental contract with
the construction company that will
extend the time for completion of all
lock gates and fixtures.
The contract for this work calls for
the expenditure of $5,374.474.S2, one
of the biggest single construction con-
tracts ever let by the government.
The Importance of the canal to
America was ably set forth by Will
liam A. Reid in an address before the
Pan-American congress, in which he
said:
Cutting asunder the American con-
Understanding the long-sought route
to India-promises to revolutionize
commercial and industrial conditions.
All the world looks and marvels at our
success at Panama; the changing ar
teries of commerce become interna-
tional questions North American
capital and brains and muscle, aid
ed by faithful and even heroic labor
ers from sixty eight countries or for
ty nations. have builded the greatest
engineering work the world has
known We have divided the CONT
nents in order to become more close
ly united.
In the western hemisphere Saxon
and Latin have not known each other
we'll. Visits have ever been inconven-
lent or difficult to make; distances
are great and travel facilities have
been few. Today, both of these OBJ
stacles are being removed by faster
ships and shorter routes; indeed. our
very thoughts are exchanged through
the air. A better understanding is
fast approaching; interest is quick
ened; more intimate acquaintance
brings a knowledge of each other
requirements.
The South American forests, plains
and mountains are teeming with mans
necessities. On the other hand,
North American factories are busy
but in many lines an overproduction
is causing concern. Fair exchange.
then, is the natural solution of these
problems of supply and demand.
The world is exchanging its COM
modities to a greater extent than ever
before The year 1912 saw a larger
number of ships launched upon the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
TASTE IN MUSIC.

America is engulfed in a sea Of mus
ical trash. The young person who
really likes good music is either looked
upon with scorn and pity or condemned
as affected" and hypocritical. If one
does not enjoy "Hitchy-Koo'' one is be
yond the popular musical pale. One
is an old fogey Or worse.-Cleveland
Plain-Dealer.
Surely ii is not so bad s that. And
in order to prove it one has but to
attend a concert where both kinds of
music are rendered and note the marks
of appreciation by the audience. The
loudest and most prolonged applause
is almost invariably given to the
classical numbers. always provided
they are those with which the people
are familiar.
The "Hitchy Koo'' class of music
gains much of it's popularity among the
unsteady uneducated because 1T is
easily understood and acquired. They
do not grasp the classical air until they
have heard it a number of times.
Furthermore the popular" tune soon
loses its popularity, while the music of
I'll Trovatore." William Tell" Cav
a1eria" the sextette from Lucia and
.eTannhauser" arouse enthusiasm in
any audience, year after year. DOUBT
less there are many other works OF the
masters that would become as popular
If only the people could hear them Of
tener.
Ragtime is not a preference; 1t is a
necessity. With the great majority 1t
is that or nothing. They have not the
ability to master the other kind nor
the money to pay for 1t when furnished
by artists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29

place of concealment. Then she re-
membered and flew to the cobbler,
who assured her that he had seen no
diamonds. Thereupon she had him
arrested. A wholly non-judicial de-
cision by the Los Angeles Tribune en-
braces the conclusions that: A shoe
is no place to put diamonds; one SO
placing diamonds, afterward sending
the receptacle to a cobbler, must con-
fess to contributory negligence; one
confessing to this degree of absent
mindedness inadvertently admits such
degree as implies that she may never
have hidden the stones there at all;
that stones disappearing in transit un-
der conditions named do not place any
shade of responsibility upon any per-
son but the one who started them on
their journey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
QUAKER MEDITATIONS,
IRON the Phiiadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Will power may be another name for
won't power.
On the other hand, a man is also the
architect of his own misfortune.
It is sometimes easier to do the proper
thing than the right thing.
Many man gets pretty bad fall from
being thrown on his own resources
Blobbs-"Can a woman keep a secret?'
Slobbs-"Wen, she can keep it going
Is the man who profits by his mistakes
better off than the man who never makes
any?
The average man will give up conun-
drum sooner than he will a seat in a
crowded car.
Many a fellow who thinks he knows all
ABOUT women discovers his error soon
he marrieS one.
Any man might conquer the world If he
only had half as much perseverance as
female book agent.
Guzzler-"What do you consider the
best blend of whisky?'' wigwag-"Any
whisky that is mixed with little common
sense"
How do you like this chowder. Mr..
Starboarder?' asked the landlady. 1T is
cold. but not clammy,'' replied Mr.. Star
boarder.
Muggins-"I got back at that suffragette
friend of yours" Buggins-'How?' Mug
gins-'1 plainly told her she was no gen.
tieman."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29

ing toward her and by his side was
Alan Benedict, tenor
The meeting was all very much like
a beautiful dream. Sylvia remembered
afterward that her hand had been
grasped firmly in a warm hand that
tingled when hers met it and she knew
that her eyes but glanced into the
depths of pair that seemed to be very
happy eyes
II have tried to express to your
father the great blessings his hand has
given me-in life,'' Alan Benedict said,
and Sylvia only nodded with an af-
fectionate smile into her fathers eyes.
She knew, somehow, that she, herself,
was one of the blessings her father had
given to the Italian.-(Copyright 1913
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29

AT EVENING.
I feel an envy very deep
For those frail little birds that fly
Across the tranquil evening sky
Before the world has gone to sleep.
Each evening eer the light is done
There falls a. hush, as tho the Lord
Were wont to speak a wondrous word
The promise of another SUM-
The traffic of the air is still.
The clouds are motionless and flushed,
The very wind is listening, hushed,
AS tho to hear the Masters Will.
And then the swallows twittering flight.
Audaciously, yet half in fear,
AS tho they knew he held them dear,
And SO forgave them every night.
They hasten past; the sun is low,
The Masters word at close OF day
Is spoken-yet the swallows stray
Enraptured in the afterglow.
All, for that confidence divine!
The knowledge that, however late,
1 seemed to let the Master wait,
His pardon and his love were mine!
B. Macarthur.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
EVENING CHAT

BIZ RUTA CAMERON.

Why Women Remember Anniversaries
Almost all women are born symbolsts.
If more men realized that fact we should
have more happy marriages.
What is simply ordinary, unimport-
ant fact to a man. and nothing more, is
often the symbol of many vastly import
ant facts to a woman. That is why an
ordinarily sensible woman will sometimes
make a terrible fuss over what seems a
very little thing to a man; and that is
why an ordinarily kind-hearted man Will
sometimes be hard and unsympathetic
over what seems very big thing to a
woman.
That is why the least sentimental wife
always remembers her wedding anniver-
sary; and that is why the most devoted
husband sometimes forgets the great day.
A young couple used to know had their
first quarrel because he left her to go to a
ball game one Saturday afternoon when
they had only been married few months.
She didn't want to go but she professed
herself quite willing to have him go, and
thinking all was plain sailing, he went.
When he came back he found his wife en-
veloped in that peculiar atmosphere of
constraint which every young husband
has occasionally encountered. All attempts
to break through it proved vain he was
honestly mystified. He really had no idea
what was the matter, and after several
rebuffs, grew hostile in his turn. or
course the misunderstanding finally came
to a head and pride and formal politeness
dissolved into tears on one side and re-
assurances on the other. When the eX-
PLANTATION stage arrived, the husband was
because he had gone to the ball game
without her. But you told me to co. ne
protested, with the obtuseness of a big
laundering man. II wanted you to go Y
you wanted to. but L didn't want you to
want to- she sobbed. But it was such a
little thing anyway" he argued, man.
wise. well. it wasn't just that you went
to that game" she explained, woman
wise, but thought of all the times you
would leave me in the future. 1t wasn't
at all the fact that you went this time
that troubled me, it was the thought that
probably our tastes would differ more and
more and some day you would always go
off by yourself to have your good times"
Tn an unmarried man all that probably
sounds like the veriest nonsense.
To a married man it probably sounds
sadly familiar
Anu to a woman it surely sounds nat
ural and sensible
Such is the symbolism of woman which
sees in one little fact a thousand big
facts.
And such is the misery this symbolism
causes when it isn't understood.
Any man who, will take this tendency
into account will double his chances of
matrimonial happiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
ABOUT FIRED ROBERTSON.

The choice of Senator Fred Robert
son as successor to Harry Bone. United
States attorney for the Kansas district,
will be satisfactory to both Democrats
and Republicans Fred Robertson is
not only a lawyer of ability but man
of unimpeachable character, who has
made friends in all parties during his
political career as we'll as in his bust
ness and legal dealings. His popular
ity in the northwest quarter of the
state was shown when he was elected
to the state senate as a Democrat by
the vote of a 13 county district that is
strongly Republican.
1t is as lawyer that Senator Rob-
ertson is best known to Kansas. al
though his business activities in Raw
Inns and adjoining counties have been
extensive; he is responsible for the
organization and construction of rail-
road extensions that have been OF
great benefit to the people of his dis
trict, as well as reclamation projects
for the irrigation of arid territory in
northwest Kansas and eastern Colo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
BY THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

There are cynfcs- who will observe
that the California girl who broke out
of a detention home to get married,
went from bad to worse.
1t is reported that Kink Gawge was
kissed by the Kaiser at the royal we'd
ding. Which should be a comfort to
the ordinary victim of wedding In
vitation. Belonging to the royalty en-
tails something worse, when invited to
a wedding, than wearing a dress suit
and buying an expensive present.
Instead of the usual spring hoop
snake story, comes the report of a
Kansas boy who killed wolf with the
thigh bone of some deceased animal.
The name Of the deceased animal that
furnished the bone is not given, but
a bull is suspected. The story sounds
that way.
1t will be unnecessary for editors to
reprint that story about the Colby man
who was severely injured while wash
ing dishes for his wife. Only one man
out of ten thousand needs an excuse
like that.
The trouble with the average gink
who has a message to the pee-pul
is that he wants to deliver it collect.
The recent death of q Chicago man
revealed the fact that his business,
occupation and trade was matrimony.
He died in middle age. There are men
70 years old who have followed the
avocation of dynamiter since the ex-
plosive was invented.
Education is a necessity, but you
can find a fly in every jug of ointment
No illiterate ever, went to the peniten-
tiary for bank wrecking or forgery.
Here's to Fred Robertson, logical fol-
lower of Harry Bone. The conditions,
so far as federal prosecution are con-
cerned, will be about the same; the in
nocent will have a fair chance to prove
it, and the malefactor will get his
Topeka now has a pulmotor, and is
ready to bring back the deceased at
a moments understanding to the
agent who sold the machine. HOW
EVAN, several undertakers are revarn-
ishing their hearses for the summer
trade.
Hon Roosevelt testifies that he was
never drunk in his life. There are sew
eral authorities on the definition of
drunk and we recall three notable
verdicts on the subject. A few hundred
years ago some Old gink-possibly an
authority-wrote:
I1C Is IlOl III WIlO ITOIl the IlOOI
May rise and drink q bumper more"
Within the last century, some wag
quoted We ancient poet and another wag
at the same dinner amended by stat
ing:
No man is drunk-so long as he can
lie on the floor without holding on
And the last-and the diadem gem
OF them all, was pulled by a red-nosed
but abstemious Topeka policeman. He
brought a man before the police court
on ''souse'' charge
Your honor, was not drunk" tes-
titled the victim Without waiting 70
be sworn or to assume the witness
chair the righteous copper yelled:
He was tool Il snelt IT on bis
breathI' -.ra4' > 800
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
says UNCLE CIV

Out in Trenton, Mo-, where the s.Tren
ton idea flourishes. they have a good
workable slogan which goes thus: "Get
acquainted with your neighbor: you might
nke h1m Everybody likes everybody
else In Trenton, which explains why it is
the center of the most progressive cou,-
munity in the state.
FIRST or last progress is always a mat
ter OF cooperation. Even a radical re-
former who looks the world square in
the face and tells it to get off at the next
stop can't get very far unless he has
some equally radical backing. The in
d1v1dual is important as he gives charac-
ter and inspiration to the aspiring human
mass, but when it. comes to working out
that character in physical form and MAX
ing that inspiration manifest in matter,
he must needs have the assistance of other
men working to the same end.
The basis of cooperation is mutual Tx
ing and understanding. Team work is
possible only when men know and have
confidence in each other Antpathy, dis
gust, Indifference, hate, are so many
agents of social disintegration. They have
cost the earth more than fire, flood and
holocaust. Where they exist, social en-
ergy is going to waste, is being misdi-
rected or is actually consuming itself in
strife.
The regiment without the esprit du corps
is better out of the army. The working
the house" is getting money under false
pretenses. If it is getting any money at
all The community where men hold a1oof
from each other is the community that
has badly paved streets, poor lights, in
adequate sanitation and high mortality
rate 1t is one in which business strug-
giles and merchants employ cutthroat
methods. 1t wrangles and rots because
it can't pull itself together for common
purpose and get results. 1t is a house
divided against itself that falls while ev-
erybody stands by to point out defects
and curse the builder.
Human sympathy is the greatest Co
hesive force in the universe The greatest
sentence that ever fell from the lips of
man was an imperative one, Love one
another The next greatest was, Get
together The man who is Indifferent to
his neighbors is to that extent a mental
defective. In a world where there is so
much work to do and so few who know
how to do it, we can't afford to waste
energy by lack of team work.
Your ideas may be fraught with the
magic that heals the ills of mankind. but
if you alone hold them they might as well
never have been conceived If you draw
the family next door into the tight you
are the way to success You have
the nucleus of aggressive force
Enlist your block and you command the
respect of your community; enlist the
community and you are in fair way to
gain the of the wide world
The hermit is always nonenity. He
has cut connection with his KIND and Is
as if he were not. The most hopeless
hermit in the world is he that lives IN II
and is not of 1.-THE man who doesn I
know or care about his neighbor.
"Get acquainted with your nelghDor-you
might like him. And if you like him
you and he may do wonders together You
can't do anything alone.-(Copyright, 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


It's never too early to mend, either.
Wild oats have a few tares mixed with
them.
A heavy sermon maketh light collec-
ton plate.
When misfortune overtakes a hustler it
has to go some
Some men never recognize an oppor-
tunity unless it is labeled.
Why does a woman imagine she can re-
form a man by singing to him?
Even a girl who isn't flirt may not
want some man to think she isn't.
The dollar that does a man the most
good represents several drops of perspira-
ton.
The girl who has two or three brothers
at home finds no chance to develop con-
oeit.
Many a mans interest in a woman is
confined to wondering what fool thing she
Will do next.
Alas for the young man whose only
claim to distinction is little straw lid
with a muiticolored band.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29
ON ZEE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BIZ ROY K. MOULTON. -
MetanOrphOSis

MetamOrphosiS.
When the statesmen go to Washington
They are brimful of reform.
They are for the common people
And they rant and rave and storm.
Diagnosing the conditions
They set forth the peoples ills.
And they load the good old hopper
With their remedial bills.
For two weeks in January
They kick up am awful dust,
And they blow until you're fearful
That they're really going to bust.
Then they quiet down serenely
And no longer tear their hair.
Anu the folks in February
Wonder if they still are there.
Then the statesmen are forgotten
Till, along in June we learn
That the legislative body's
Getting ready to adjourn.
1t is easy to make speeches
And of grave reforms to shout,
But it's somewhat different when 1t
Comes to carryin 'em out.
Promises are stock in trade with
Statesmen who are seeking fame,
Blu. old Ultimate Consumer
Keeps on digging just the same.
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The question is asked: why do art
lists like to paint and sculpture the nude.
human figure?" Possibly it is because
fashions in the human form do not
change. The figure of woman painted
so years ago draped in hoop skirts
would hardly find space now in an art
exhibit. Judged by the tendency of
modern fashion the time is near when
there will be no room for criticising the
artist.
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high seas than in any previous year.
The trade of the United States with
foreign countries was greater than In
any like period of the past; and
President Wilson standing before the
congress of the nation, says: I'VE
must build up trade, especially for
eign trade; we need the outlet and
the enlarged field of energy more
than we ever did before"
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-29

Emporia has abolished the system
which required deposit for a water
meter. What is the matter with To-
peka? Wasn't that one of the issues
which won in the recent city election?
The Gazette says: Most people are
willing to pay any reasonable price for
water, but they don't like to pay for
the scales in which the water is
weighed"