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dale John R. Watson, Prof. H. j

dale John R. Watson, Prof. H. ].
Patterson and Alfred P. Dennis.
Former Governor David P. Fran
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congress, the object of which is to
have the United States Congress
create national drainage commits
sion with power to- carry out,
and nationwide plan
of protection against floods, drain
ing Of swamp lands and retaining
overflow lands along the big rivers.
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Cough Medicine For Children.

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Too much care cannot be used In
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take, contain no harmful substance
and be most effectual. Chamber
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the mothers of young children ev-
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ADV.
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THE EST

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Sold by all druggists from
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1t will hold a three-day session.
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Too Late to Classify

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Davis and L. & M. paint, best
made-goes furtherest, wears long
er, looks best-at Phillips Hdw. Co.
ADV. 2-6t.
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The painters labor ABOUT 1 90
Total costs 2 .O6
Two coats OF paint cost less than
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Use the l.. & M. Semi-Mixed Real
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Sold by Phillips Hdw. Co.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.
From the Atchison Globe.l.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1.
You are not always a help when you
think you are.
Always remember it is easier to
promise than to pay.
Neither will three cheers help much
if other support is lacking.
Time, however, isn't as precious as
the wrist watch might indicate.
Bill Bowen says almost anyone can
play big league ball in the bleachers.
Although this is no monarchy, there
are several patriots who seem to in
herit office.
Only few days now till the gent
who SubSistS on box scores Will De
placed on full feed.
You can't attain the owls well
known reputation for wisdom by bat
ting around all night
Photographers are the greatest flat
terers, but they have to make a living
and should be excused.
Jude Johnson lets his wife support
him, so he will have more time to de-
vote to the Great Issues of the Day.
cheerful liar may be more de-
sirable citizen than the party who al
ways insists on telling the truth that
hurts.
Our sense of humor is widespread
and we'll known, but when substan-
tial citizen kicks a brick under hat,
what's the joke?
janitor says that it would be a
fine thing if someone would start a
campaign to educate people that waste
baskets were intended to throw things
intO-not at.
The future does not loom up ideally
perfect to a prospective bride unless
she can rent a house close enough to
her mother to run across with some
hot biscuits.
mean man figures out that the
women do almost as much to support
the book agent as they do to support
the preachers. Then he adds, You
know who supports the women, as a
General rI1Ie''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04

William Charles White, medical d.
rector of the league, says it will prob
ably take ten years before definite re-
suits of the work will be appreciated.
The experiment is being conducted on
the theory that much, If not all, tu-
berculosis infection begins in child
hood. In view of this fact, the league
is aiming to supervise the growth OF
every baby born for the next ten
years in the South side district of
Pittsburg. The babies and their
mothers will be taken in charge at the
birth of the infant, and everything
possible will be done to increase the
resisting power of the child to disease
and to make it thereby immune to tu-
berculosis infection. The theory of
the society is that by terrifying the
body in the earliest period of a chlid's
life, the infant will, in most cases,
become immune to the diseases with
which heredity and environment may
threaten it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
.AYHAWKER JOTS

Mayor Goheen, Of Manhattan, will &c
| in again.
Henry Allen put over his candidate
for mayor in Wichita last Tuesday.
Tuesday was the day, says Billy Nor
gan, when people voted as they would
| like to shoot.
Mr.. Beanblossom is running fol-
| councilman at Erie and Tom Cordry
predicts a killing frost for April Z.
Belle P1aine is trying to drive out
it's pool hall. The women claim that
| the place keeps the young men broke.
The ottawa Republic refused to print
any more communications from Tax
payer" Citizen" and PRO Bono Pub
| lico."
Tonganoxie is arranging to make
good road into Lawrence. 1t seems
there are still people who want to go
to Lawrence.
Jerry Botkin is reported to have
govt and J. L. Brady would like to
know whether he acquired 1t While
preaching or while in politics.
The Women's clubs of Allen county
have petitioned the county commits
sioners to appoint woman to the Of
flee of county poor commissioner.
The people of Wichita refused to be
frightened by the Eagles cry of social
ism and elected the alleged Socialist
candidate for mayor by 1000 majority.
The prOpOSlt1On TO pass d law pro-
hibiting women from wearing peek
a-boo shirt waists is met by a Kansas
woman with the suggestion that bald
headed men be compelled to wear
skull caps.
The car repair shops of the Katy
are to be taken from Sedalia and st.
Louis to Parsons. This will increase
by about $50 me nthe force that is al
ready maintained by that company in
the Kansas town.
A church at South Center has dis
covered a new way of securing singers
for the choir. AS soon as the Sunday
school is dismissed the announcement
is made that all the good looking
young ladies are invited to remain for
church and assist in the singing.
Walt Mason hands this bouquet to
Bert walker: "It is gratifying to note
that Bert Walker has been recognized
by the governor, who~appointed him
to. an office. Bert is one of the most
useful and interesting of Kansas citi-
zens, and nothing is too good for
him.
While you may not agree with Gov
ernor Hodges in his idea of a COM
mittee to take the place of the legis-
lature in making laws, says the Law
renee Gazette, you must at least adj
init that the movement had q whole
lot of provocation for what he did
considering that he had on his hands
for about 40 days a legislature made
up Of 165 members.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t isn't always the biggest man who
looks down on his neighbors.
Would it be the plan of wisdom to
turn your back on the backbiter?
The only exercise some people get is
throwing bouquets at themselves.
Some fellows are like guns. You
can't always tell when they are loaded
1t doesn't pay to spend all your time
trying to prove that luck is against
you.
Beauty is only skin deep, and lots
of modesty is also merely on the sur
face.
Lots of people aren't very sharp.
sbut nevertheless they have their good
points
An actor knows how to make up
but even he can't always make up for
lost time.
The spendthrift may live to see the
day when he won't have the cents he
was born with.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04

known. The hours were like CEN
turtles. Until morning dawned she lay
with her eyes wide open trying to
read the future. Gradually the UNI
verse resolved itself into two separate
hemispheres. On one of them doomed
up bright and fair the city-the Won
derful, beautiful city-all that she
had dreamed. On the other. standing
alone, was Arthur Balm.
In the morning Elsie dressed care
fully-not in the fine new travelling
suit laid out downstairs on the parlor
sofa. She donned a discarded house
dress which she had the day before
decided to leave at home. When she
had hung it up in the closet she did
not expect to wear that dress again.
She tied a prirn little apron around
her waist and arranged her hair in
becoming fashion.
she heard a wheelbarrow trundle up
to the back gate. Then she wrote a
little note on her dresser and hur-
ried down the stairs.
Breakfast was almost over when
Elsie heard the dear, familiar step
coming briskly down the path. But
she did not look up. She meant to
say that she was going on a later
train and let Arthur do the making
up"
what does your note mean, Elsie?
You said you wanted to see me- he
demanded. and why aren't you
dressed and why doesn't Jacob take
your trunks?"
'T'm'-she began her story brave
ly, but the words would not come.
Her lips quivered and helpless tears
ran down her cheeks. "I don't want
to be forgotten" she said, and Ar
thur seemed to understand. He
gathered her up in both his brawny
arms and asked for no further ex-
PLANTATION.
Lets unstrap the trunks now"
he said, gravely-(Copyrigh 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
ON TIE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
By ROY K MOULTON.

- i Remember.
remember, I remember,
The coal 4 used to throw
into my hungry furnace
To make the blamed thing go.
/ remember, I remember,
The snow piled up in banks,
& Which I was wont to shovel
And get no sort Of thanks.
I remember, remember,
How I. the verdant chump,
Climbed out of bed each morning
To thaw the kitchen pump.
remember, I member,
The plumbers used to stay
For hours around our shanty
To mend the pipes each day.
1 remember, remember,
These things all cling to me,
Spring weather we're now having
Suits me, yes, to a T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
FROM OTHER PENS

TOO MUCH FOR THE WISEACRES.
The political wiseacres have been mucly
surprised to see William Jennings Bryan
not only calmly accepting Woodrow
Wilson'S assumption of being head of
the house" but apparently enjoying the
situation. They cannot account for T.
They thought at first that Wilson wanted
Bryan in the cabinet that he might watch
MIN. Then they thought Bryan wanted to
be in the cabinet so that he might proven.
Wilson from obscuring him. They pre-
dicted a break between the two; that
Bryan would soon resign; that Wilson
forth
has taken the post with enthusiasm; that
he wants to back up Wilson; and that ha
is happy in the relationship which puts
Wilson over him.
The politicians cannot figure it all out
And the reason is that they look for the
answer everywhere except the simplest
and most logical place.
1t seems never to have occurred to
them that Wilson and Bryan thoroughly
understand each other; mutually respect
gether Those who know say that when
Wilson and Bryan met, following tho
election, no mention of cabinet was made.
1t was not necessary. Each man knew.
Close friends of Wilson say he profound
ly admires and deeply loves Bryan. Bryan
looks on Wilson a leader after his
own heart, and with some qualities he
himself lacks. 1t is case of two big
men tackling a common job without petty
disputes as to who shall do the most lift
freeuom of the other. The chances are
that Wilson and Bryan have never felt a
pang of jealousy toward each other. Poll
tlcianS fail to understand 1T all, because
At least let us hope so.-St. Paul Dis
patch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
Idterature and the Drinks.

A little party of Irishmen, guests at
the Willard, and representing different
walks in life, were discussing momen-
tous questions, when the talk drifted
to literature.
''This reminds me of some of my
Irish friends of the 'ould sod with
whom I was talking some days ago"
said Frank Foggarty of New York to
the Rev. Father T. J. Malone of Den
yer.
"How's that?" asked Father Malone.
They also were discussing litera-
ture. O'Brien and Kerrigan were in
the party. Says O'Brien to Kerrigan,
How do you like Omar Khayyam?
"'Oh,' replied Kerrigan, I'd just as
lief have drink of Chianti wine
"The party broke up and only Ker-
rigan and O'Brien remained, and then
O'Brien, turning whitening look up
on Kerrigan, remarked, Kerrigan,
I'm ashamed of you. You were trying
to talk literature and livery time you
opened your mouth you put your foot
in it. Don't you know that Omar
Khayyam is not a drink but q.
cheese '''-Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
DECEMBER AND MAY.

HE.
I am old enough. they'll say. to be your
daddy;
have ceased to be a silly. slender
youth;
But within beats the fond heart Of q
daddy,
I've the spirit of an eager boy. in truth /;
The locks that once adorned me have de-
parted;
My step may have become trifle slow.
But am just as full of love when I
started
To use a razor. thirty years ago;
If my wild oats are all sprinkled,
And my brow a little wrinkled,
Young affection in my breast is still
aglow.
SHE.
Though you may be old enough to be my
father,
I never shall be grieved by what they
say;
I do not want young mans love; I'd
rather
Be petted by an old man any day;
You have become a trifle bald and stout
ish,
Your sight may be affected more or less;
1t may be that you are little goutsih,
Your step has lost it's youthful spring.
ness;
Your wrinkles are appearing
And you'll soon be hard of hearing,
But your money makes you worth
chance I guess,
$. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago Ne

CFrom the Chicago News.1
Bread cast upon the waters is sell
dom buttered.
A short answer is often followed by
a long silence
Too many eye-openers will also put
a man to sleep.
Many a bad end results from trying
to be a good fellow"
If you would be popular you must
be willing to pay the price.
No, Alonzo, a girl isn't necessarily a
bird because she is pigeon-toed.
We know a man who accomplishes
a great deal by getting others to do it
for him.
Some men get aboard the water
wagon, then begin to look around for
a good excuse to fall Off
You probably look all right to your
own friends-and the rest of the
world doesn't care how you look
Ever notice how women will shove
along to make room for a man in a
crowded car-and how they won't do
anything Of the kind for another
woman?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
THE OTHER SIDE.

| Probably there is not a city in the
| country where street cars are operated
that is free from complaints of pa
| irons regarding the insufficiency OF
service at the rush hour. At last a
defender of the traction companies has
appeared.
Preston S. Arkwright, president of
the Georgia Railway aid Power COM
pany, which operates the street rail-
way system at Atlanta, in comment
ing upon the rush hour problem.
makes some observations that are VAL
liable, coming, as they do, from one
who has made a daily study of city
traffic conditions for many months.
Said Mr.. Arkwright:
This company and no other COM
pany claims or pretends to claim that
it can furnish seats for everybody dur
ing rush hours If the company were
required % do that, it would pretty
soon be in the hands of a receiver; and
if the receiver were required to do it
he'd pretty soon be in the hands of a
receiver. The result would be a sort
of pyramid of bankruptcies.
People go to a shoe store on Sat-
urday night and they have to wait
thirty minutes, maybe, to get waited
on. They don't kick. They could go
on a Wednesday morning and there'd
probably be a dozen clerks ready to
wait on them. People go to the theater
box office to buy first-night tickets,
and the house is sold out Do the peo-
pie kick? No; they buy tickets for the
second night. or the third night. I try
to get a lower berth to New York on
the IL o'clock train, and there are none
left. Do 1 kick? No: I try to make
my arrangements to leave on the 2:45
train, when I can get lower. People
go into a restaurant during rush hours
and can't get a table. Do they blame
the restaurant? They do not. They
know it's simply the rush.
"a street railway company is the
only concern serving the public. that
I know of, that is expected to provide
instantaneous service to everybody
at the particular time that everybody
happens to want it.
And another thing you've noticed,
maybe. There's string of cars at the
ball park to bring back the crowd af-
ter the game. Does the crowd appor-
ton itself among the cars so that all
may be comfortably seated? 1t does
not 1t tries to get on the first two
or three, or five or six cars, which
lumber back to town with people hang
ing by their eyelashes, while the bal
ance of the cars trail empty to the
barn.
People are riding in Atlanta street
cars all during the day. And during
the rush hours they are packed in the
cars. That is a sign there e@1ots
of people here; that, being animated,
they move from place to place.. and,
as the fifteen minute schedule is In
creased to ten minutes, and increased
again to five minutes, and the cars
are still crowded. it proves that the
town is growing.
eff 1 went to a town, intending to
locate. and found that the cars weren't
crowded during rush hours, I'd pack
my things and find a place where the
cars were crowded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
SAYS UNCLE CIV

The trouble with a lot of ''overworked"
men is sheer laziness. Most of us neet
more work, not less. Nine-tenths of the
human race don't get enough real, blood
acceleratfng exercise to get rid of the
toxic poisons that burden the body.
Most of us are laggers. We drag inert
frames and push inert brains through our
daily tasks without enough muscular ex-
citation or enthusiasm to make our blood
circulate properly.
Whats the matter with my factory?'
asked a friend of mine of a public health
officer. 81 believe that I am a humane
man and progressive one. 1 have done
everything that can to surround my en-
ployees with proper working conditions.
But most of them seem to be sluggish.
I'm sluggish myself when in the factory.
though 1 hven up when 1 get outside.
Look IT over and tell me what's the mat
ter"
Now, it happened that this public health
Officer officer was a physician who is wise
the situation over and then called the
owner aside.
tory from a sanitary standpoint. It's the
best I've ever seen. But there's some
thing radically wrong with your emf
working hard enough You take things
too easy. You dawdle through your daily
tasks and the employees follow your ex-
ample. You can get twice as much work
out of yourself and your men and you'll
both be better off.
lake my ddVlce ana speed up little
If your business pays now, put some sort
of premium upon faster work. Fire that
foreman il you can't ginger him up. Share
your Increased profits with your workmen
and IL you don't wish to reduce the force,
which don't advise. give it Saturday
afternoon off. But keep plenty of work
ahead of your men. Make them work and
work like the proverbial one-armed pa
perhanger while they're here. And try
that prescription on yourself"
II worked. The symptoms of HOOK
worm disappeared and there is apparent
ly not a trace of sleeping sickness left.
That factory is getting back to the old
maxim work while you work" and 1t
Is paying increased dividends. The owner
has taken off ten pounds and his bank
account is bullying with the weight that
he has lost 1t is no longer necessary 20
dock workmen who are absent upon
account of sickness. The rest of the force
Is earning enough in its new scale of eff
ftciency to carry that very practical form
OF insurance They are fewer tired out
men at the end of each day than there
their employer, are driving the glowing
poisons out of their systems by increased
exercise and renewed enthusiasm. The
union scale doesn't cut much figure in
that shop" nowadays There are few
men who are not receiving more than the
prescribed wage. There is no fear or
strikes, and It is the boast of the work
men that they hit the ball every minute
of the day"
It's plain tale and true one-so plain
and SO true that It requires no further
word TO point the moral.-(Copyright 1913.
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04
REGULATION OF WAGES.

Agitation for any given kind CT re-
form, once started never stops until
somebody's idea on the matter is put
into the form of legislation. Sooner OF
later this will be done in connection
with the regulation of wages.
But before any law is passed fixing
minimum price at which any class
of persons shall work it might be well
to train the beneficiaries up to an abil-
ity to earn the amount specified. If
that were done probably there would
be no necessity for legislation.
1t will be observed that those who
are educated in the various technical
schools of the country are not asking
for a minimum wage law. When they
obtain employment at all it is always
at living wage.
There are many difficulties in the
way of minimum wage legislation.
For one thing, a law forbidding the
payment of a wage below a fixed
amount is necessarily a law forbidding
any one to work for such lower wage.
The obvious mode of evading the law
by increasing the hours of work will,
of course. be included in the law. The
theory of the supporters of the meas
ure Is InaC a certain sum Is n0oOeO
to meet decent living expenses; that
this should be paid for a kind and
amount of work which can be per-
formed without injury to the worker,
and that the law, on careful inquiry
into the facts, should regulate both
work and pay.
No employer is to be allowed to
give less pay or exact more labor than
the law sanctions; no worker is to be
allowed to take less pay or to give
more work. This must leave a certain
number of workers without employ
ment; a certain number who now re-
ceive an inadequate wage and with it
secure an inadequate subsistence with
out any income and without any sub
sistence whatever. This number en-
braces two classes, those who cannot
earn the minimum wage and those
who will not. One class includes the
incompetent and the other the shift
less, the lazy, the shirks.
1t is plain that if the state inter-
venes to forbid these, classes to work
for a wage lower than the proposed
minimum, the state must care for
them in some way. They cannot be
left to starve. If their case is bad
now, v = they do not get enough for
a decent living, it would clearly be
worse if they We're prevented by law
from getting anything whatever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-04

This is a time" says the Boston
Transcript, when the work of the Red
Cross demonstrates it's value and gives
emphasis to the efforts that have been
making to place that benef1cent insti-
tuition in a position of greater strength
and even more comprehensive service
than 1t has ever occupied before" Note
the use of the word making" One
would hardly expect to find anything
like that in a Boston paper, but there
1t is. 1t is certain that efforts some
times are made. but they never do the
"makingn