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The Alaska citizen., 1913-06-30

Carl Emil Langraf last week ap- piled for his final citizenship pa pers.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-06-30

second prize. B. Juvenile Bostonians at the Auditor. iun.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-06-30

very start. Oscar Underwood. house leader. stated that the whole thing was too ridiculous even to comment upon.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-06-30
800 p. M. At Exposition Park.

Al Exposition FdFk. Second Aviation Exhibition by Captain James Y. Martin. Admission $2.30. Children between and 15 years of age. s1; children up to six years of age, free.
 9:30 p. M. Motor Beat Races on the Waterfront On Front Street, Opposite Grand
 stand Finding Shoe Raee-Boys Under 12 50 yards-First prize. $3; see ond prize, s2. Finding Shoe Race-aGirls Under 12 90 yards.-First prize, S3; second prize, s2
 Sack Race-Open-First prize. S.; second prize, $3. Sack Race-Boys Under 12-First prize, s3; second prize, s2. Bicycle Race-Boys Under 14.-First prize, So; second prize, $3. Married Women's Race-5O Yards First prize, $5; second prize, B. Ladies Nail Driving Contest. First prize. s7.5O; second prize. g.. Pie Eating Contest.-First prize, s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-03
CHEER, UP.

| Is the world growing worse? asks
John A. Sieicher. in Leslies, and he
| continues: Many think so. Elderly
| men and women say things were diff
ferent when they We're young. The pace
| was not SO fast; 1uxuries We're not as
common: living was cheaper; we were
not so constantly on the go.
We stayed at home, We read less
and thought more. The family circle
described our circumstances. We made
| less, got along with less, lived
simpler life on palmer food, with fewer
amusements, not as much leisure, more
health and greater satisfaction.
Our elders ask: us there a reason
for the new pace We are following? Is
Alas, yes. Everything is different. We
are living in new world. In so years,
unthought of. unima gined. and upper
ceived changes have been brought
about with a sweeping hand.
1t is a world of doing and daring.
The field of endeavoris no longer limited.
Time and space are minimized and
limitations Giscredited.
The telegraph. telephone and cable
make market prices for every COM
modify for all the globe, every day and
every hour. No deserts are without
travellers, no dark continents without
explorers.
The ocean is a ferry crossed by gil
gantic steamers in less time than it
took to go from Buffalo to New York
by packet boat. New York and Chicago
are only three-quarters of day apart
and the jump from the western metrop-
oils to the Pacific coast is made in three
days. Is it remarkable that mans
vision has been broadened and his
wants multiplied with such an amaz-
ing increase in his opportunities?
If our nation is great, it is because
the world is great. The world is now
the field of action of every leader of
finance and every captain of industry.
Read the proofs in the figures of our
wonderful export trade. now surpass-
ing that of any nation but Great
Britain.
Reflect on the meaning of woriu
market which in a year consumes our
cotton. corn, coal, oil, machines and
fabrics to the vast total value of over
two and quarter billion dollars. Woe
be to any hostile hand that under pre-
tence of preventing restraint of trade
paralyzes our worldwide market.
The American is speculator by ma
ture, as the Yankee is an inventor by
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chubby girl in tow went to the other
end of the car.
''Maude-Maude-a name immor-
talized by Tennyson as the embodi-
ment of romance, thought Lighton
Think of ignoring a pearl like that. .
He had noticed the man glance at
him as he passed his seat, and as the
later returned, he passed and held out
ton. 1 believe he said, pleasantly.
THE same" answered Lighton
shaking hands in a dazed way. Your
face is very familiar. but L can't at
tach the name"'
.Armstrong-Arthur Armstrong, of
old University days. They shook
hands all over again, and Armstrong
dropped down beside him. Together
they began "reminiscences of school
years.
II shall never forget the year you
were quarterback" laughed Arm
strong
But it was you as full back that
Won the game that day. returned
Lighton
Armstrong launched into recollec-
tions of that particular game, but
Lighton's thoughts wandered. The
present was too insistently painful to
be long ignored and at the first oppor-
tunity, he brought the subject back.
What a fine family you have, Arm
strong. 1 have been noticing them
Yes, 1 have some A. No. l young
sters.''
''And wife. too" Lighton found him
self stiffly saying.
You're right. L have. But this isn't
my wife-it's my sister Maude. My
wife is with her mother WIN has been
ill. We are on our way to join her
now. Maude is helping me herd the
babies"
Then she isn't married." blurted
Lighton.
mo, and you're not either, judge
laughed the other. will you come
and meet her?"
LEIGHTON rose with alacrity. with
the greatest of PLEASURE
Arthur Armstrong performed the in
PRODUCTION in his bluff, cordial way,
then devoted his attention to the chill
dren.
AS she raised her beautiful dark eyes
to LEIGHTON, Miss Armstrong read joy,
admiration and something more.
DO you believe in fate, Miss Arm
strong?" He took from his pocket the
locket he had found eight months be-
fore.
why, that's the locket with my pic
ture which daddy lost from his watch
chain last winter" she cried in sur
prise and held out her hand.
But Lighton returned the case to his
pocket. Not yet, Miss Armstrong.
crave your permission to keep it lit
tie longer-until the time is ripe for me
to talk with your father about maxim G
an hange."-(Copyrigh 1913. by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
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birth. 1t is the fashion to decry the
SPECTATOR. He is the world builder,
! the discoverer, promoter. explorer and
the real progressive. All history proves
it.
Behind the magnificent development
Of our farms stands the courage of the
pioneer starting with all his little
worldly possessions on a prairie schoon-
er Ito dare the dangers and hardships
of the Emigrant Trail with a trusted
rife in his hand and the love of God
in his heart.
Behind the spidery web of railroads,
reaching into every section and giving
market to every farmer, producer
and merchant, stood the enterprise of
men with capital and brains ready to
take the risk Of building the iron high
way because they had faith in their
country's future.
Behind the magnificent material de-
velopment of our land, opening the iron
mine and the coal field and exploring
the oil regions, has always stood the
dauntlesS captains of industry of whom
we were once so proud and who one
day will come into their own again.
Perhaps we are not all as good as
we were, but this is an age Of activity
and publicity. We do more good, and
we see more evil. The larger the field
of ripening corn the greater the num-
Der Of the weeds and the harder the
task of the lusbandman to cultivate
the one and destroy the other. This
does not mean that the soil is less
fertile or the weeds more plentiful.
Nor does it mean that the reward of
toll is lessened.
The world is what we make it. OPP
portunities are only worth as much as
We determine to get from them. We
have our choice between good and evil.
We can cultivate the corn or we can
let the weeds exhaust the soil. Let us
not impute to others the evil results
of our own shortcomings.
The world has expanded during the
past 90 years. It is larger 1t is wider.
1t is richer. 1t has more people and
their activities are more intense. It's
evils have grown with the good, for
nature is' impartial, but it is not bad
world. 1t is only as bad or as good
as We make it.
Does any of us believe that in the
struggle between the good and the bad.
If the challenge were given, if the lines
were drawn and the battle opened. the
contest would end in the victory for
the vile and vicious? Not for a single
moment.
Cheer up, The best is yet to come.
In God we trust!
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THE sHoREs OF, sT,EEP.


At last our ways have found their utmost
goal
On the gray shingle of the embroidered
sea.
The shrill, insistent voices of the world
Are stilled behind us in a sudden hush.
And the harsh tumult of unhallowed
Dies in the swaying silence of the deep.
In the far regions Of the purple dusk
Forgotten visions stir; and, dimly known,
Peace dreams in the untroubied ocean
depths,
Washing to the flowing silver of the stars.
So far. so faint as of a mightier ocean
Beyond the shadows of the world, there
beats
The ebb and flow of time and life and
love
Down the dim reaches of eternity.
Sleep after weary toll. Night folds about
The velvet mantle of her endless tides;
And the low voices of a holier dawn
Below from the isles of slumber in the
sea-
Charles w. Kennedy, in the American
Magazine.
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FROM OTHER PENS
No CRIMINAL, TYPE -

Scarcely enough just'"" has been
done to the admirable work of DR..
Charles Goring in his study of the
English criminal, which has just been
issued as a blue book. This is even
less an important addition to our
knowledge of the criminal than a chal-
lenge to the whole school of crimino-
logists For the investigations of DR..
Goring shake the elaborate fabric built
up by Lombroso and those who have
followed in his footsteps. Our inevi-
table conclusion the report states,
! must be that there is no such thing
as a physical criminal type" The head
of the criminal differs in no marked
degree from that of the university
graduate and specialized crime is dis
covered to be not due to selection on
the part of the criminal but to the
opportunities which present themselves
to him. The criminal who is in a IA
vorable position for thieving, thieves:
the man who has no opportunity of
taking what is not his, figures among
the statistics of criminal violence. The
one marked characteristic of the crimi-
nal classes is a low order of physique,
frequently associated with a poor in
telligence. Such defects as these, how
ever, are too common outside the ranks
of the criminals to afford any guide
to the criminal before he commits
crime. And with that broad fact the
entire structure of a p3eudo-science
comes topping to the ground.-West-
minister Gazette.
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GLOEE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

Ihere never was a fearless newspaper
IF a man has no spectacles 10 lose. ne
nlislays his pipe.
Many men have a streak OF yellow even
If their favorite color is red
a man frequently fools himself into the
notion that he is fooling his wife
What has become of the oId-fasbioned
woman VINO rode side saddle?
II the reduction continues, almost anv
sult mlsht serve as a bathing suit.
Moving pictures are always true 10 life
except in two or three billion cases
Neither need you be a crouch in order
10 have the courage of your convictions
Success is so much appreciated that the
1all-end team has trouble drawing a
crowd.
erowns OF derby hats will be higher this
ran indicating that the world is growing
More young men might join the navy if
they didn't have to wear that kind of
clothes.
The world changes in other respects,
out the watch dog continues to see too
much.
BY the time a man gets so he can af-
ford runabout. he feels he ought to
have a limousine.
It's a sign you haven't enjoyed your va
cation If you are glad to get back, as you
generally are.
Being narrow minded, we maintain that
a cigarette is about as respectable as a
college pipe.
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According to Uncle Abner.

According to Uncle Abner.
Thus far no member of the cabinet
has had to go out on the corner and
sell leadpencils in order to make both
ends meet
People who claim that the world is
growing better do not stop to think
that a new brass band is organized
in this country every day.
1t used to be that the old folks went
to the circus just to take the children,
but nowadays the children go just to
take the old folks.
Uncle Ezra was goin' to ship few
calves down to New York but decided
not to after he read in the paper that
the police were forbidding them there.
The only time we have a fire in our
town is when the firemen are havin'
their annual picnic five miles from
town or else when somebody is usin'
our fire engine to spray fruit trees.
Grandpop BibbinS says he don't think
much of them there new tangled auto
mobile hearses. 1t seems as though
the time in a feller's career when he
is in no hurry is when he is bein'
hauled to the cemetery.
The fool who used to rock the boat
evidently left a, 20-year-old son who
drives an S0-horsepower oatmobile.
Hank Tumns says he believes a wife
should be devoted to her husband. but
when she comes downtown to look for
him at night it is carrying devotion A
leetle bit too far
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the CHICAGO News

LH the NLlCaSO News
Many a brave man is apt to fear a
silent woman.
No oculist can do anything for the blind
ness of self-love.
stick to it, is our advice to the fIy
on the sticky paper.
Many a good brain throb escapes from
underneath a cheap hat.
The most annoying thing in connection
with natrimony is married life.
Some candidates can't distinguish be-
tween dust storm and a landslide.
1t is something difficult to forget the
mean things We know about ourselves.
The less a man amounts to the larger
he shows up in group photograph.
The way to become popular with most
people is to keep away from them
Sooner or later the man with a swelled
head will get what's coming to him.
Opportunity seldom makes the man until
often the man has made the opportunity
1t takes lot of faith to enable q man
to order scrambled eggs in cheap res
taurant.
Shortly after marriage the psyche knot
on the back of a brides head may de-
velop into a thing resembling a door
knob.
Nearly every married man thinks he has
a grievance against his wife-even if It Is
only because she married him and rob-
bed him OF his freedom.
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by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

| The rule is that while Little Willie
may wear patched trousers first day
! of school, Little Susie must appear in
! a new outfit. And yet Susie may grow
up into a suff person and deWand
equal rights.
Him? He's persona au gratin with
me-" says Tootsie Thompson, the
night hashier, in reference to steady
patron. His al1ey-mode neckt1es
strong as a red onion fer him fer
while, but when he had thuh nerve
tub pull pair of finger-nail scissors
on a order uh spagehtti, all was over
betwixt me an him.
It is said there is reason for ev-
erything. Anyone who has concealed
about him the reasons for Kansas
weather and the name of Mauch
Chunk, Pa, please step forward and
be frisked.
From the amusement a big league
crowd gets out of beaning of an Jump,
it would be we'll to have the ambu-
lance corps on the job when said
Jump gets leg broken. A large num-
Der of spectators would undoubtedly
| collapse from pure. frabjous JOY.
There is a rumor that Mrs. Pank-
hurst, who escaped from British
cops. is headed this way. For the love
of Petei What has this country done
to deserve anything like that?
Perhaps you may, as you stroll
through the woods some Sunday at
ternoon, observe Homer Hoch dart
ing into the dense brush. That you
may know the reason therefore, We
hasten to reprint
(F'rom the Marion Record.)
1t was Skidmore and not
Skinmore as we stated last
week, who purchased the
grocery store of NJ. S. Bige-
low.
Everybody makes 'em. Our latest
was yesterday. when Mr.. E. E. Kelley.
who assists Mrs. E. z. Kelley with the
Feeling it incumbent upon the depart
ment to make some excuse for being
a newspaper failure, we advanced the
theory that mayhap this department
had started too late in life; forgetting,
for the moment, that Mr.. Kelley, one
of the most entertaining newspaper
writers in the state, started three
years ago.
Would rise to enquire: Is an oyster
any better now than it was at 1853
Sunday night?
And: Do YOU intend to can your
hay bonnet on the fifteenth of this
month, if the weather is anything like
this?
Cheer up. Some day this depart
ment will take a vacation. We do not
need a rest. of course. but the more
or-less- gentle reader does.
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Eskridge makes the modest an
nounceme nt that it will have an all
star football team this fall.
In the opinion of the Norton Cham
pion. the lonesomest thing in the
world is road. 1t always goes from
place to place alone.
That Kansas girl remarks the
Wichita Eagle, who married into the
Mumm's Extra Dry family wasn't so
inconsistent after all this year.
Whatever man doubted that woma n
had courage has had his doubts dis
PEELED, thinks the Sterling News by
the recent developments in clothes
There will be one advantage to the
drouth, insists the Dickinson County
News. A lot of fellows won't be going
around saying, when the frost is on
the pumpkin and the fodder is in the
shock" There may be frost, but there
will be few pumpkins and little fod-
der.
A Burr Oak man. tells the Burr Oak
Herald, who has been troubled with
sore feet went to a drug store for
some powdered alum to put in his
shoes. He used a liberal quantity in
his socks one evening recently and
when preparing to go to bed discov-
cred that they had grown fast to his
feet. by accident" the druggist got
hold of gum arabic instead of alum
This is an age of recognition, SAYS
the Wichita Beacon. Thaw was recog-
nized by sheriff in Canada Glynn
mas been recognized by the New York
legislature. Asquith was recognized
by stalwart suffragists. And Huerta
has recognized that President Wilson
is not writing messages to improve his
literary style. 1t now remains to be
seen whether we could recognize a.
rainstorm.
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Although the feet play the import
ant part in the practice of the tango,
the dance is evidently not without Sc
rios effect on the head. One Jane
OFT, who teaches it to Chicago's 40, -
is not only rapturous over the latest
thing in feminine jewelry, the kneelet,
but she also declares that in a previous
life. some five thousand years ago.
she was Princess Amneris, the daugh-
ter of the mighty Pharaoh Krufu,
who ruled over Egypt during that per-
iod Furthermore, kneelets were quite
the thing in those days and she had
coolies of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-03
QUAKER MEDITATIONS
TFrom the p

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Variety and detectives are the snias
of life. spies
If You can't look a man in the ewes
"heh you talk to him, use a phone
A needle ir haystack is almost as
scarce as woman blushing in the dark.
The only time hypocrite isn't busy
IS when the devil has nothing for him to
do.
1t isn't every man who can crack q
joke and extract the kernel without dam
aging it.
Many woman poses as an angel who
wears her wings on her hat instead of
on her shoulders.
Trouble is Splinter. If you don't be-
lieve. watch how he overtakes those who
travel at the fastest clip.
Life IS made up of surprises. Have
YOU ever noticed that the things that
don't seem possible happen so often.
Action is all right in it's way, but the
young men who do the most running
around don't always make the most
progress.
Youngpop-'-I tell you. that boy of
mine will come out ahead Oldrich-
Yes. he does impress me being a
forward child"
Tommy-"Pop, what is an excuse?''
Tommy's Pop-t'An excuse, my son, is
merely something you can't think of when
You want it.
There is plenty of room at the top
quoted the Wise Guy. Naturally agreed
the Simple Mug. Everybody wants to
get in the ground floor
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

More gasoline than midnight oi1''
is burned in these days of grace.
= r
And the Individual who has to try
hard to be agreeable seldom succeeds.
+
= 1t is eminently fitting that an I'M
dertaker should assume a grave ex-
preston.
+ =
Most of two weeks vacation is
usually devoted to reaching the desti-
nation and getting home.
+ T.
When a man starts to run through
a big bunch of money no one ever tries
to trip him up.
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EVENING CHAT
The Ii comprehensive Sin.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

For each one of us I think there are
certain meannesses, certain sins, that
are almost incomprehensible.
The two that pass my understanding
are, first the meanness Of the man
who deliberately asks another man to
drink when he knows that the other
man is trying to keep away from
drinking; and second, the meanness of
the person who deliberately repeats a
disagreeable thing which one person
has said about another to the person
attacked.
1t is difficult for me to believe suclI
people exist, but L know they do. Oh
course, the first class is rather out of
my province as a rule, but the one case
I came into contact with branded the
knowledge on my mind. L once knew
a brilliant, kind-hearted, lovable young
newspaper man. whom the whole office
loved so well that they banded together
to help him fight his besetting weak
ness. He had taken a liquor cure and
had been doing splendidly for six
months and then the word went round
that he had fallen more violently than
ever. / asked how it happened and
was told that another newspaper man
who knew perfectly well how hard this
man was fighting and how much it
meant to him to keep straight that
particular time had actually asked.
nay urged, this poor boy to have n
drink with him.
wish I were a Dante to arrange Il
special Hades for that man.
However, that is not what I starte,
to write about at all.
1t was the second meanness that
made me ia up my pen. AS 1 said
before, it is almost beyond my con-
prehension that any one could DELHI
erately go to another person and say.
80 and So said thus and thus about
you" when the thing said was some
thing disagreeabIe. And yet I know
that this class also must exist because
7 have been warned by people who evil
IDENTIFY suffered from it. Don't iell So
and So l said that about her, will
you?"
Needless to say 1 affirmed very
strongly that I would not.
And now at last have reached the
point of my remarks. I prided myself
upon being SO far above such meanness
but I have found 1 have no reason to.
for that was only negative goodness.
Here is an example of positive good
ness in the same line. when any one
expresses a dislike for some mutual
friend. or criticises him or her." writes
a friend of mine. Il always try very
hard to think of something nice the
criticised has said about the critic, and
repeat it. For instance, 1 say. You
don't like her? That's too bad. She
told me the other day she though You
were so clever and interesting The
result is to make the critic think he
has made a mistake and decide that ne
does like any one so discriminating d :
that, after all"
Don't you think that is a splendid
plan of action?
do. Indeed, it has made me so
ashamed of my merely negative good
ness that I'm going to adopt it a once
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ON TIE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
By ROY K. MOULTON.
Modern Epitaphs.
z K. MOULTON.

Modern Epitaphs.
Here lies Bill Jones,
A man of note,
Who lost his mind al
And rocked the boat
Ta52.
Here lies Jim Hanks.
A chump, 1 ween,
Who smoked his pipe
Near gasoline.
Lem Docks lies here.
How did he die?
His homemade airship
Wouldn't fly.
-
Hi Binks is gone,
One day, illboded,
He gra a gun
That wasn't loaded.
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HUAOR or THE DIP

Young Lady-"No, nanny; I have no
beau; | guess I'm to be an old maid"
is happiest of all-once dey quits strug-
glin'."-Puck.
Il never take sides in a town row." IT
always do. Then I don't have to listen
to the grievances of both factions -
Louisville Courier-Journal
Pa, what does 'c-o-n-v-e-r-s-a-z-f-o-n
mean?" THAT is merely an Italian word
for little chin music, son. Now run
along and play."-Birmingh CHAM Age-Her-
al