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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
THE MEAT PROBLEM.

The arrangements which have been
made for shipping meat from Austria
liza and the Argentine to the united
States. have come none too soon un-
less a large portion of the popula-
ton is to adopt an exclusive vegetable
diet.
We are rapidly approaching the
point where for many it must be no
meat at any price.
For the calendar year 1912 figures
Just issued by the government show
an expectation of only $4,000 cattle
as against $4,000 in 1911, 100000 in
1908, $4,000 in 1906, and $4,000 in
1904 In other words. eight years
ago the total number exported was
nearly twenty times as great as last
year.
In the matter of values, the cattle
exported last year represented In
round numbers 100000, while in
1911 they represented $14,0O0,oo0; in
1908, s24,O0o,OO0; in 1905. $3S.0oO,O0o,
and in 1904, s41,Ooo,00O. Stated diff
ferently, the exports of 1912 in value
represented only about per cent OF
those exported in 1904. These figures
mean, of course, a diminution in the
cattle supply as we'll as an increase in
our own population.
What is again impressive is the
statement that the cattle imported by
this country in 1912 amounted to 30O,-
900, whereas in 1904 they amounted
to only $1,000; their value last year
having been over 100000, and in
1904 $4,000. The decline in the
number of cattle raised in this country
is indicated by the statement that on
January 1, 1912, there were 100000
cattle on American farms, while in
1907 there were 72,500,0O0.
That the country is capable OF pro
ducing enough cattle to supply the
home market at reasonable price
there can be no doubt. Why it is not
done is another question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
SAYS UNCLE CIV

A lot of US who believe it is our
business to make the world
do the goose-step according to our
| own particular notions of martial time,
would get farther with the reform
program if we used a little more altru-
ism and little less personal spite. A
good many times when we tell our
selves and others that we are suffering
in a good cause were merely trying to
take fall out of the opposition. There
are moments when we have a sneaking
opinion that crucifixion is superior to
moral Suas1on when it comes to deal
ing with the fellow who is playing hob
with our own peculiar theories.
So far from having arrived at that
blessed state where we tolerate a diff
ference of opinion, we have not even
learned as a people to be patient with
the owner of heretical views. Heretics
you will understand, are those who do
not agree with you. When we say that
we hate intemperance, most of us
mean that we are disguised with
against the appalling theories Of some
advanced" reformer, but in reality
we don't care rap for his theories,
as theories. We're aching to punch
the head of the person who propounds
them. We are not SO likely to despise
the political fallacies of the day
meaning those political principles
which we do not indorse-as we are
upon them as a slogan and carries the
day. Passion is still too prominent in
our mental processes to permit us to
separate the doer from the deed, much
less to allow US to look with forbear-
ance upon ideas that are not accepta-
BILE to us.
Thus personal feeling enters into
our disputes, beclouds the issues and
reduces the human struggle to its
original elements of might against
right Right wins in the long run, of
course, but it sometimes requires a
few odd millenniums for right to ac-
quire sufficient might to prevail.
ga DOC Houser, who has peddled
pills and sunshine in Puckyhuddle for
these many years, is a good deal more
honest with himself than most folks
asked him one day why he so thor
oughly disliked young Lem Spriggins
Why shouted Doc. 1.-The gosh
dinged fool is one of them yap-
mouthed Socialists
But why do you hate Socialism %
asked.
Because I can't bear that yap-
ANYTHING he's for I'm agin.''
Then Doc laughed and told me that
II l wanted to join an old fool in
smoke I'd find a shank of dogleg and
O. Missouri meerschaum up behind the
eight-day clock
Doc is splendidly human. The truth
about the matter was that he doesn't
like either Socialism or Lem Sprig-
gins And he's got his hatred of the
know which from 't'other Most of us
are like Doc. Our notion of annihilat-
ing disagreeable doctrine is to maui
the advocate. Thus far Doc doesn't
succeed either in getting rid of Lem
or IN decreasing the Socialist total of
one vote in Pea Hollow township
Copyright. 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
AHHAWKER .OTS

The appointment of Fred Robertson
| to the office of United States district
attorney has brought him a shower
of bouquets from the Kansas press.
In recording an assault and battery
case the Leavenworth Times says the
plaintiff was bruised considerably in
the fisticuff.'' Looks like he has a good
case.
The Atchison Globe suggests that
while Billy Morgan is travelling in the
Belkans, he may be able to pick up
some pointers which will be useful in
Kansas politics
All the towns around are pointing
fingers at Chanute and saying: shame
on you for treating Mr.. Siggins that
way. Now look what you did to your
self.'-Parsons Sun.
1t is claimed that Cherryvale gave
up her chautauqua because of fear that
it would interfere with the winter lee
| ture course. Apparently one big event
year is all the town can stand.
1t is announced that the Cudahys
are to build a 100000 soap factory
at Coffeyville, that town having met
the requirements of the company. 1t
is claimed the factory will be in opera
ton this fall.
The hot wind stories from Wichita.
Hutchinson and other wheat belt points,
says the Fort Scott Tribune, are but
the movement of the correspondents,
who have been predicting a $50 millioon
bushel wheat crop to find a place to
light.
farmer and his family living near
Ottawa were quarantined for small
poX and his neighbors gathered a safe
distance away from the front door last
Sunday and sang psalms. On Mon
day they applied practical Christianity
and planted his spring crops for him.
The tentative selection of Fred
Robertson as United States district at
torney is almost too good to be true.
Senator Robertson is one of the clean
est and best men in public life. He is
a man of high intelligence and he has
a conscience which goes with him all
the time.-Lawrence Journal.
Fifteen Neodesha boys have started
a camp on a ranch near that town
following are the camp rules: 1. That
about the work schedule; 2. that each
3, no midnight lunches; 4, any kiddoo
failing to do his work will be blanket
tossed; 5, nix on the comedy.
One of the things that would be
great help to the merchants of Leav-
enworth would be a free bridge across
the river. That would give the people
in Platte county the opportunity to do
their trading in Leavenworth.-Lea
enworth Post. And incidentally a
great help to the merchants" of
Platte county, whose thirsty patrons
are mostly of Leavenworth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the PHILADELPHIA Record

lFrom the Pn1ladelph1a Record.
The man of few words doesn't have to
take so many of them back.
Have you ever noticed that the people
who are stuck up seldom stick up for each
other?
Any manicure girl will tell you that
many a mans conscience is more callous
tnan his hands.
1t is the height of every mans ambition
to reach tie point where he can say Just
what he thinks.
Many man is so constituted that moth
ing less than an earthquake would shake
his faith in himself.
Some people believe in contrasts but no
man can have light heart and a dark
brown taste a the same time.
At the Mount Airy School the other day
the teacher asked little girl what words
modify verbs Proverbs she answered.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that il is easy enough to please a woman
If you can only make her decide what she
wants
Blobbs-''when you used to attend the
NO. but often used to come home that
way.
There is nothing new under the sum-"
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes, even our mis-
takes have been made before added the
Simple Mug.
gWag-"Bjones says he doesn't know
one drink from another. Guzzler-.'I
guess that's right He makes a wTy face
when he drinks Scotch
Sillicus-"Do you believe that matches
are made in heaven. Cynicus-' NY OBJ
servation has been that most of them are
made by the girls mother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.l

lFTom the Chicago News.1
Silence is difficult argument to beat.
Love is blind-especially the kind of love
that attacks egotists.
Records are fragile things; you can't
lower without breaking it.
Occa sionally one gets too much of
good thing in the way of better half
A woman has no use for a secret that
she can't tell or money that she can't
spend.
A woman can stand more pain than man
can. However, she isn't expected to suf-
fer in silence
By doing a man a favor you may con-
vert him to the theory that one good turn
deserves a dozen more
woman thinks more of her figure and
complexion than man does of everything
he pays taxes on.
After some men have been handed
lemon they act as if they were trying to
corner the vinegar market
While the family tree of the elephant
runs mostly to trunk, that of the chorus
girl does nothing of the sort.
Misers were created for the purpose of
showing others how little happiness there
is to be derived from wealth
The driver of an automobile is called a
chauffeur by those who ride with him. but
what pedestrians call him a whole lot
easier to spell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
FROM OTHER PENS

WEAK SPOT" IN THE CABINET.
Every cabinet has it's weak spot Re
calling recent administrations, it was
the war department, when Alger held
that portfolio in the Mckinley cabi-
net; Metcalf as secretary of commerce
and labor, and later of the navy, was
a drag upon the Roosevelt cabinet; the
department. of the interior, under Bal
niger, in the last days of Wilson's rec
ord breaking tenure as secretary of
agriculture, subjected the department
to severe strain.
The weak spot in the cabinet OF
PRESIDENT Wilson has not been long in
developing. 1t is the department of
state, which two months of Mr..
Bryan's secretaryship have sufficed to
oemoralize. During much of that
time the secretary of state has been
absent from Washington, and when he
is at his desk more time is devoted to
visiting political adherents than to the
conduct of the foreign affairs of the
government. Mr.. Bryan came to this
post without experience in diplomacy
and with little knowledge of world
politics. Two months in office have
apparently added little to his limited
knowledge of his new duties.
Members of the diplomatic CORPS are
unable to get answers to their inquir-
les as to the policy of this country in
various directions: they do not relish
the experience of calling upon the
secretary of state and being trapped
into posing before a motion picture
machine while he shakes hands. In
deed two diplomats refused to pose
and withdrew until the film was made.
Many officials of the department
have not had ten minutes conference
with Secretary Bryan since he enter
ed office: Important questions are
held up for weeks awaiting his con-
sideration, but the stream of political
visitors continues and the demand of
recent senator that two of his con-
st1tuents in the clerical force of the
Qepartm ent be promoted to higher
salaries was promptly granted, in the
face of the fact that one rated among
the least efficient in the department
and the other could not have earned
a promotion under civil service rules
requiring examination.
More than one member of the cabi-
net is beginning to chafe at the med
ding of Secretary Bryan outside his
own department. Diplomats are
amazed at the recklessness of his
speeches. Senators are wondering how
long he will be permitted to commit
this government to the negotiation of
treaties which can never be ratified,
and personal friends of President Will
sentiment at the way in which Mr..
Bryan continues to harp in public
upon the one term plank in the Balti-
more platform.
Is it surprising, under the circum-
stances that Washington is discussing
the possibility of Secretary Bryan's
retirement from the cabinet at the end
of the year? In the meantime, he
may save this government embarrass-
ment abroad by following the custom
of John Hay and Elihu Root and
refraining from discussing foreign af-
fairs in public, save in the course of
a prepared speech, previously ap-
proved by the administration, which is
held responsible for the utterances Of
the secretary of state.-Boston Tran
script.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

similar establishment, where girls are
forced to learn cooking, sewing, laun-
dry work, etc. Sentences of this kind,
it is pointed out, are no guaranty of
reform. but they facilitate the refor-
nation of those who desire to mend
their ways and return to the life of
virtue and industry. Fines neither de-
ter nor reclaim fallen women; voca-
tional training in well-directed and
humane correctional institutions holds
fair promise of reclamation A SINH
lar course regarding those who COM
nit other misdemeanors, such as over
in drink, might also be an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
THE HoMEsrEAD FAR AWAY.

THE HOMESTEAD FAR AWAY.
How my thoughts are often trending
To the homestead far away;
And the scenes of happy childhood,
Where 1 used to romp and play.
The old farm house is now deserted,
And its clap boards once SO white;
BY the storms of many seasons,
Their color long has taken flight.
Twas there, beneath its roof OF shingles,
1 have listened to- the rain,
AS 1 rested from my labors.
Beating on the window pane
There. branches draped with natures
splendor,
Swayed on elm and chestnut trees,
With music from the corn leaves rustling
In the gentle evenings breeze.
The lowing of the many cattle,
And the bleating of the sheep.
Mingled with the noise of chickens
In my memory still keep.
Oh, the happy days of childhood!
Although my hair is turning gray,
There comes to me sweet sacred memories
OF the homestead far away.
A. Chard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Mason. the high-fying aviator, takes
a daily spin over Guymas. Some day
they will get his range, and then he
will drop in on them.
With 17-year locusts in the parks.
huge herds of grasshoppers headed this
way and the chinch bugs on the job,
get busy. Possibly, with an appropria-
ton of sufficient size, the scientists
could establish school to teach the
grasshoppers to eat chinch bugs, after
first loading the chinch bugs with a
diet of something that would disagree
with the hoppers.
In the Insanity rum at the Indian
apolis speedway. they broke no speed
records but they broke another record
by breaking only one leg and three ribs
When the question was raised at a
meeting OF Minneapolis deaconS as to
whether the plate should be passed be-
fore or after the sermon, they voted in
favor of before-probably on the rea-
sonable theory that the congregation is
easier to awaken before the anaesthetic
is administered.
The trouble between the Balkan al
lies is a matter of boundary lines, which
is quite unreasonable. Now if Arkan-
sas should declare war on Missouri to
grab the so miles of Mississippi river
front that hangs on the southeast cor
ner of Missouri like the price tag on a
lace curtain, there would be some sense
to it.
This Roosevelt booze row was all very
interesting, but whether or not the col
onel drank them singly or in groups
excites less curiosity with some people
q IN that
Ishpeming.
A German lawyer was recently fined
260 marks for calling a telephone girl
a gemeines frauleinzimmer. We don't
know what a gemeines frauleinzimmer
is, but from the size of the fine, are
led to suspect that it is not the German
for hello" or central
A school teacher is suing the District
of Columbia for $50, 900, because she fell
down and broke her leg. And the worst
of it is her name is Mary Awkward.
After June %, the Kansas City saloon
keepers will no longer furnish free
lunches with a fiVe-cent snort. 1t will
be interesting to find out the truth of
the statement that some people patron
ize the jag emporiums because they are
hungry.
The doctor who has been retained by
a family in the English nobility, will
get 5000 If it is a boy. That's a safe
enough proposition for him, as he hasn't
put up an equal amount as forfeit in
case of failure.
Chicago man shot himself five times
and slashed his throat twice with a
razor. There may be good reasons for
not wanting to live in Chicago, but the
man with the price of a revolver could
pay his fare to Evanston.
And now George A. Newett should be
required to change his name. 1t ap-
pears that he didn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
ON TIE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
The Punch.
By ROY K. MOULTON.


got an idee, said Farmer Brown,
That when it comes to gettin' renown.
The Teller with the thing you call the
punch
Pulls out ahead of the rest of the bunch.
It's the punch that counts in all walks
Throughout this vale of trouble and
strife.
A fellers work may be medium fair,
There's no fault to find with IL anywhere.
quick
Unless it has got what they call kick"
You gotta take the public by surprise:
You gotta hit 'em right between the eyes.
You gotta do trick that will make 'em
talk;
You gotta do it quick or they're goin' to
balk.
bran new.
They're goin' to put the double cross on
The cartoon man must have the punch
to make a hit.
The lawyers got to have the punch. No
doubt of it.
The advertiser man has got to have the
same,
Or he must shut up shop and get out of
the game.
The actor with the punch pulls down the
biggest pay;
The preacher with the punch draws null
titudes his way
The Teller built that way is never salts
fled,
He wants to do his stunt and then some
besides:
He's restless in his strength. His mind is
never still;
He thinks long years ahead Of him and
No easy-goin' man, self-satisfied and
such,
VIII ever have punch that will amount
to much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
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a month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State journal Will be
to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

The village of River Forest Ill, is
advertising for a business manager,
who will be expected to take charge of
everything except the schools, and who
will be paid 81. 500 a year. I'VE want a
wide-awake young fellow" says the
president of the village board. who
will see that every function of the vii
lage is performed and that the town
gets what it pays for in the way of
contracts" Here is an opportunity for
some of these people who think they
know how to run the town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

'Gfve a dog a bad name and hang
him" applies in politics as well as
elsewhere. The Aldrich currency plan
was looked upon with suspicion by the
country because of the name it bore.
Now the Democrats are about to adopt
it almost in its entirety with the name
of the former Rhode Island senator
omitted from the title.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

Soda fountain proprietors in the vi
entity of the Harvard campus are said
TO have found it possible to permit
the college boys to make their own
change from an open kitty and
have found the losses less than the
wages formerly paid to cashiers and
clerks. The plan also saves the ex-
pense of a cash register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

The reason city papers do not clip
editorial matter from some of the
smaller ones is that they know the
reputation of the papers they never
touch with scissors or credit lines"
No exchange editor desires to be
''bawled OUT for crediting a Harper's
Weekly. Sattidyevepost or New York
Choinal editorial to the Frogville
Ruminant or Podunk Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

A French woman announces to the
world that the furnishings of a wom
ans home should harmonic with the
prevailing fashions in dress. Does
this mean that the beds should be mar
rover and have a slit in them?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

The colonel says he drank a mint
julip or occasions but his FRIEND
Jacob Riis says he doesn't believe it.
When a mans own friends can't take
his word what can be expected of the
IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State journal is q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the ruli Gay
teiexraph report of that great news Dr.
SANITATION for the exclusive arternoon
Dubffce ton IL Topeka
The news is received in The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pun
Pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

The Salina Union has the ''unkind
est cut of ALL" Instead of comment
ing on the testimony in the Roosevelt
case, the Union merely reprints the
testimonial received by the Kentucky
colonel who shipped two gallons of
"S0-year- old" to the other colonel in
Africa, and suggests that the snakes
must have been thick or the camp
physician a great little prescriber
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

Out of the anti-vice campaign in
Chicago has come condemnation by
the Welfare league of the system of
filming delinquent women. Legislation
is sought to do away with fines in all
such cases and to provide for terms
I'm the house of correction or some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

Since Andrew Carnegie has de-
cIared his Willingness to shoulder a
musket should necessity arise, who
SAYS we are not prepared for war?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

The country would like to hear from
Col Watterson on the subject of the
evidence being taken at Marquette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

Now is the time to trace the cause
of the Frisco receivership to the Dem
ocrat administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

The mistake of Senator Stillwen OF
New York was made when he failed
to resign while the resigning was good,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

First Diner-'Det me see. 1 think I'll
order some lamb. Second Diner-''Don'ti
1 never order lamb in this place-it's NUT
ton before you get it.'-Boston Trans
cript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

The colonel says he never drank
more than one mint julep at a time.
1t would take an expert to exceed
that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

Another Hindu has been admitted
to citizenship in California. This
must make the Japanese CRATE their
teeth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

What appears to be needed in the
peace movement, is team work on the
part of Bryan and Carnegie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02

DIR. Friedman showed rare judg-
ment when he disposed of his con-
sumption cure on bull market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.

No matter how much money the presi-
dent of the United States gets. he doesn't
get enough.
The last time Miss Pansy Tibbits came
home from the seminary she couldn't talk
SO her parents could understand her and
the old man says he is going to go and
take course himself so he kin talk with
her
guided government gives us, personally, a
good hearty laugh. There is the income
tax, for instance. 1t misses US ~ four
miles.