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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
Simple Life for FaIIieres.

simplicity of rural life at the end of
his term of seven years in office, tells
how it feels to become a full Pledged
private once more. President Fallieres
says:
Il am about to become a simple citi-
zen, and leave the Elysee and public
life without a single regret. I know
that an ex-president of the republic
could recommence a political career,
nothing forbids it, but in my Depart
ment every public place is filled.
'I am II years old, and there are
young men waiting for places. When 1
came to the Elysee L said I would serve
out my full term and quit. I have
II came to the Elysee realizing the
responsibility of my office; L leave
without regret, having done my duty.
When an official is named to AN office
he should do his duty conscientiousIy
and discharge faithfully every obIiga-
ton entrusted to him. When relieved
of his official responsibility he should
lose himself in the multitude of his fell
low citizens.
II leave with the gertrude that he
who will replace me, whom L have
known and respected for a long time,
will steer the ship of state safely. The
day after ! shall relinquish to him my
place he will find me a respectful and
devoted citizen.
Il shall take up the kind of life 1
led before becoming president. This
was a simple life in Paris and on my
property in the country. A month at
Easter and four months of a long sum-
ner vacation I will spend in the coun-
try I shall become once more simple
wine grower. / will walk amol-g my
vines, pruning knife in hand. 1 Will
travel in France. Our country is so
beautiful that I have an ardent desire
to know it, and one cannot know it
properly by mere presidential trips.
MY thoughts as an outgoing pFesi-
dent are not wintry. I am delighted to
go back to Loupillon and live among
the vines and the good people where I
was born."-Paris Gable to New York
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCH1soN GLOBE.

The easiest thing earth to do is is
suing a proclamation.
A stingy man has fewer friends, but
DOESN'T need SO many.
A young man gets sympathy; an elderly
man should have known better.
No city is so large that there aren't duh
days for the newspapers printed therein
If Jude Johnson would go to work he
wouldn't see so much over which to -
indignant.
Neither can you accurately gauge a
man.; mental capacity by the size of the
hat he wears
A woman never becomes so extravagant
that she doesn't think her husband IS
more so.
When an express company settles for a
lost package it has to pay great deaf
for sentiment.
What has become of the old-fashioned
boy WHO thought the bill poster was a
greater man than the president?
1t is well to be hopeful, but don't learn
to expect such bountiful harvests as the
real estate dealer suggests.
What kin are you to the Revolution If
one of your remote ancestors was an OF
ficer in King Georges British invaders?
How important. We are curious to know.
is the important business every lodge eX-
poets to have at it's next meeting?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

TFrom the Chicago News.l
Even crooked men may cast straight
votes.
But it isn't every high flyer who
reaches the top.
A boiler shop, by any other name, would
be just noisy.
First acquire a business of your own.
then learn to attend to II.
once in a while a man manages to set
rich in spite of his wife
No Cordelia,' it isn't necessary to Use
egg coal in making an omelet.
A bachelor is a bachelor because he IS
either too foolish or too wise to marry.
Ties of wedlock.the kind a mans wife
buys for him at the bargain counters.
If a man wants to find anything ont
he asks questions; a woman finds out by
pretending to have no interest in the mat
ter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
TONORAH.

Sluns his money like he knowed
E he had Staked the mother lode;
Wine and song and all the rest
Everything the very best.
Said he wanted to get rid
OF his excess dust-he did.
Widest splendor ever saw,
Struck it rich, had Tonopah.
Friends had he-fair-weather kind;
But he did not seem to mind.
Said that he proposed to live
While he had a chance and give
Every kind of sin test,
So he'd know which was the best.
SwifteSt sport 1 ever saw,
That prospector, Tonopah-
ThroWed his coin across the bars
Smoked them dollar-each cigars;
Buys of diamonds bout peck,
This and that girl to bedeck-
'Sparkler for d SMILE says he;
''Nothin' cheap now goes with me.
And the beat 1 never haw
OF that there young Tonopah-
Then one day the cuss went broke;
Put his watch and chain in soak;
Friends began to drift away
And to dodge the sad-faced jay.
See that poor bum over there
Begin for two bits? 1 swear!
That's the young sport l once saw
Down and out-old Tonopah!
Robert V. Carr, in The Popular
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
says UNCLE CIV

There are many folk who can't see
the rainbow of joy except through
the raindrops of tears, and who are
never happy unless they're seeing
rainbows. These people may be all
right in their way. but common sense
folk with work to do don't like their
! way.
| earth seeking happiness by the route
J that leads to the foot of the rainbow
around Robin Hoods barn. We are
| eternally inventing troubles i'm order
i to find a cure for them. The cure
| lies at the end of the rainbow, and
| we never get there. A very common
notion of joy is finding relief from
some disagreeable or evil condition.
| That's getting the cart before the
horse. A better plan is to find pleas
ure in the good things around us.
A sensible man never could find any
particular happiness in the fact that
a tooth has stopped aching. He is too
thoroughly convinced that if he hadn't
been a very common but inexcusable
kind of a fool, he would have had the
tooth properly taken care of before it
began its fireworks. Yet most of us
seek our happiness just that way. We
can't imagine having any fun except
by getting out of trouble. We cling
to that perverted notion that there's
something radically wrong with life
and that it's better to take medicine
llldH IOOu w emphasize our woes
and overlook our good fortune. We
unconsciously assume that there is
more evil than good in existence and
spend our days looking for surcease of
sorrow when we should be enjoying
them. We can't appreciate the sun
shine because there is no rain to pro-
duce rainbows
One of these days we are going to
send men to observation wards and
finally to institutions for the insane
when we find them suffering from the
rainbow mania. Wed do it now If il
were 1t that most of us are suffering
from that form OF madness. There is
no more vicious form of insanity. 1t
is true that there are a good many lit
tie things the matter with society and
that from time to time we are going
to make some radical changes But
taken by and large, there is about 80
per cent. good in the way we do things
nowadays, and there is no reason whv
the average man should be giving
all his attention to the darker side
of life.
The practical plan is to wake IN and
come out of your dream of gloom Paw
more attention to the task of getting
fun out Of things that exist You are
compelled to face one trouble in a
thousand-the other nine hundred and
ninety-nine you invent and have but
to ignore Don't waste your time
looking for rainbows. Get your ewes
and your soul full of the sunshine It's
bad business to restrict your iovs IN
those that result from curing your
troubles. In the first place. Won won't
have much fun because you haven't
many troubles to cure. In the second
place the only incurable trouble Ts The
imaginary one, which has an Infinite
number of symptoms, one of which
breaks out as soon as you have sub
dued its predecessor. What Won reel
is a preventive. Get your system f,III
of the joy of things that are-fConv-
right: 1913. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Every man has his price but it is
seidom the figure that he fixes him
self
!. ss =
Among the employees who never
think of striking are those holding pub
lie office
= I.
After you're sure you're right then
do a little more thinking before going
ahead.
(. I. J.
If man doesn't profit by his mis-
takes somebody else will make all the
more out of them
!. j. Z.
What has become of the oId-fash-
Toned party who displayed his familiar
lty with Latin by quoting "MuItum in
Parvo?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
DAFFYDHS
BY U. rOALL.

After many theatrical performance
is over isn't it frequently impossible
to tell what the amusement?
(Turn on the spotlight. Here comes
the leadin Loidy.)
II you fashioned a lot of rubber
bands in the shape of a watch would
the elastic?
(Beat it boys! The house is pinched.)
When it comes out of the freezer
does the icecream?
CYou lucky dog. Men have been hung
for less than that.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Say, Mr.. Citizen, why not join the
Commercial club? The time is es-
pecially opportune as its workers are
now engaged in a campaign for an in
creased membership. It will be
through the activities of this wide
awake organization that Topeka will
be developed materially in a variety of
directions And it is not too much to
urge that every able-bodied man in
town should assist in this important
work. Many hands viii tighten the
burdens OF any task.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
According to Uncle Abner.

The idee of excessive speed for an oat-
mobile depends upon whether a Teller is
ridn' in it or dodgin' it,
Anticipation is always stronger than re-
alization eXceptin' when a Teller has a
tooth pulled.
Hank Tumms says If he kin make tee
proper arrangements to cover up his past
he may run for highway commissioner of
this township next spring.
The old-fashioned gal who used to wash
dishes is still washn' 'em, but her daugh-
ter amt.
Put beggar on horseback and he will
be wanting automobile.
A stitch in time saves another trip to
the hospital.
A purity woman can do more tricks with
a man than a monkey kin with a cocoa
nut.
When 1 hear a fellow braggin' about
what he has done in the past L make up
my mind that he amt doing very much
right now.
There are several million things in this
country that a bachelor does not know
anything about and they are wimmen.
A Teller that chases after a gal is a
fool. If he will only stand still she Will
turn around and come back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

TFrom the New York Press
It's a liberal education to get over going
through college.
A girls notion of an ideal sweetheart is
if he takes good photographs.
It's Just like a man to be able to feel at
home most any place but home
Every day the devil marks out a new
short cut to save you time in reaching h.
place of business.
A man can love a girl and show it with
out Knowing it. and q girl can love mar
and low it without showing it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganfzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

a stableman. who has been left an
estate of 100000. is certainly en-
titled to a place of prominence
among the unsophisticated folk. He
declares that in the handling of his
fortune he will be governed by the ad-
vice of his friends. Rich picking for
the friends eh7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

John Marshall, the attorney for the
public utilities commission, in arguing
that the present price at which the
natural gas is sold is the fairest and
most profitable for all the parties
concerned in the controversy, has also
made a move that viii at least be in
tensely popular with the consumers. p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Among the explorers, Capt. Scott.
who persisted with his party on their
return from the South Pole, is the
only one who was able 70 jot down a
few experiences that Doc Cook has
failed to describe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

The persistency with which archaic
ologists are excavating in the ruins
of Pompeii leads to the suspicion that
they expect to find letter written by
John D. Archbold to a Roman SEN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Possibly Rudyard Kipling is i'm
PEELED to smile these days, when he
remembers the storm of indignation
created in England by his decIara-
ton that the female of the species
is more deadly than the male
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Certainly the big rally of the Kan
sas Bull Moosers in Topeka was a de-
cided success in one important respect
from their viewpoint. There was a.
plenty of fine talking at it. In that
particular activity, the Bull Moosers
are in a class all their own. And
with them. any suggestions that talk
is cheap is decidedly out of order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Every man to his likes, of course,
but just what is the idea of the
wealthy Chicago youngster who has
sailed away for the frozen north to
hunt whales for sDort2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

\ certain Pennsylvania man evil
IDENTIFY has been laboring under the
delusion that the presidential cam
paisn was still going on. He called
one of his neighbors "a crook, swim
der. and a thief" and is being sued
4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

One woman is figuring on spending
100000 to get rid of her appendix
in proper style. But inasmuch as her
husband is Peruvian millionaire,
why should any one care, or even be
interested in the performance?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

They are seeing showers of shoot
ing stars from Buffalo. But then,
that town doesn't happen to be in a
prohibition state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Perhaps the president-elect feels
that there will be enough of a merry
dance in Washington, before long,
without deliberately adding to it at
the Inauguration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

DR.. Woods Hutchinson's advice to
"eat what you like" won't make him
popular with the people who can't af-
ford to do so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

A Chicago woman says that mems
manners have deteriorated in the
last fifty years. But then, are not
mems manners what women make
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

There is a good deal of difference
between burning the midnight gaso-
line and the midnight oil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

President Lowell of Harvard be-
Heves that college students should do
service in the navy. And that's just
where they used to send the bad
boys in days long gone by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
MAKING LAWS BY FORCE.

Governor Glasscock, of West virginia,
is undoubtedly exceeding his authority IN
attempting to force the legislature to ell
act laws against its will. The functions
of a governor are executive, not legls-
lative He possesses the right to make
Recommendations to what in his opln-
ion ought to be enacted, but he Is net
justified in submitting bills to the legs
lature and insisting that they be passed
regardless of the desires of the lawmak-
ing body. The governor: however: has as
suyned this attitude. and has notified the
members that he proposes to hold them
in session until the expiration Of ms OF
flee if necessary, and in addition 1t IS
said he has understanding with ms
successor by which the same pohcy Will
be continued under the incoming admins
tration This is a bad practice, and has
been INDUCED in by some other governors
1t is presumed the lawmakers of West
Virginia are familiar with their duties.
and they will resent the policy Of
coercion. Enacting legislation by force Is
revolutionary as well as ridiculous, and
legislature willing to submit to TINS usuf-
patton of it's own power would invite ano
deserve censure. The duty of the West
Virginia legislature is to proceed in az
cord with the right vested in 1t by the
constitution of the state.-PlttsburS Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Hail! Gentle Spring. According to
the fashion experts, women's hats are
going to be small and pleasant to look
upon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Tourists who were figuring on Wis
iting the City of Mexico in the imme-
date future have probably changed
their plans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
Loves Labor Lost.

Buying the bartender drink.
Sending a beautiful bouquet to stage
lady and finding out later that she has
a husband in Pittsburg.
Sending a velocipede to kid nephew
who has already learned to smoke pipe
and drive sixty h. D. Mercedes.
Taking a young lady to a show and
learning that she saw the original pro-
duction in New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

way; I know the Langdons. So happiness
to both of youY'-(Copyright 1918, by tire
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
FROM OTHER PENS

THE CONCOURSE OF HARMONY.
Unless the president elects desire
for simplicity goes so far as to LEAD
him to ask that the inaugural parade
be omitted altogether, there Will be at
least one tribute to which even his
democratic diffidence ought to be sus-
ceptible. This is the consideration
which Chairman Percy S. Foster OF
the inaugural subcommittee on music
will show him by asking that only the
first band in the procession play Hail
to the Chief" the other musical Or
carnations being left to play whatever
suits their several fancies. For all
that Mr.. Wilson is to see the inaugural
procession through glass, 1t having
been planned that his reviewing stand
shall protect him from the formidable
weather of March 4, the passing noise
will be quite audible, and he doubt
less will be grateful for Mr.. Foster
thoughtfulness. 1t must be wearing
even to the chief himself to hear
ssHail'' PLAYED by all the collected loot
United States from WaShington'S own
Marine band to the Happy Hollow
Volunteer Firemen'S band. Whatever
the musical taste of the president
elect, he surely will find variation,
even to turkey trot rags, grateful dl-
version from the monotony of one
tune. no matter how deferential and
complimentary its sentiment For all
that the cancellation of the appoint
ments for the ball and its supplemental
concerts has removed much of the Ia
Dor to which Mr.. Fosters committee
would ordinarily be subjected, 1t mas
not left him and his associates either
helpless or useless and if his sugges-
lions are adopted. Mr.. Wilson will find
enjoyable at least one feature of the
celebration prepared to honor him. 1t
he is good at catching tune, he
ought TO leave the reviewing stand
with a pretty fair musical education
Washington Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
KANSAS COMMENT
LONDONS RIOTERS.

The great majority of people out
SIDE OF Great Britain doubtless find
themselves utterly unable to under
stand the condition of affairs that
prevails in London as the result of
the recall of the franchise bill from
Parliament and the expectation that
the government will fail to present
OIL granting women the right to vote.
1t is difficult to see how the suffrag-
cites expect to convince the public
that they should have this right by
the tactics they have been following,
which have included threats, the burn
ing of buildings, destruction of letters
and the breaking of windows 1t is
equally difficult to understand how it
happens that the authorities have toll
Grated these offenses, which have oc-
which, generally, only slight penalties
have been imposed. The SuffragetteS
are either rioters or what may be
compared to reVolutionists. Logical
ly, the only thing for the government
to do in either case is to proceed
against them with all the resources at
its command 1t is being made a
laughing stock, or would be We're con-
1eSSneSS should be allowed to cOntin
ue in Great Britain, supposedly
land where law and order are eSpec-
tally we'll maintained is surprising.-s
Ottawa Republic.
PROGRESS.
The advance of Democracy to its per-
lection, which has had tremendous i'm
petus in the United States the past few
years, will be marked by no more specific
sign than the contamination, by the vote
of the Wyoming legislature yesterday, OF
the amendment to the federal constitution
authorizing the laying of a tax upon in
comes. We have been a long time rear
ranging the machinery OF our government
to recognize that wealth enjoys special
benefits from the government in proper
ton to it's volume, because one of the
chief objects of government is to protect
individual rights and wealth is rights
Why should it not, therefore be specially
taxed in support of the government! The
states have said it shall be.-Fort Scott
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
ON PEE SPUR
OF The MOMENT
Caught on the Fly.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.


Canadian bartenders ask for teWer
hours, and still some people claim IL Is
long time between drinks.
Is the country to go crazy over the new
dance known as 1.-The Horse Irot'
Neigh, neigh.
Doctor says hot water will cure delirium
tremens- 1t may be ADDED that III man
never drinks anything but not water Nc
viii never have 'em.
A Chicago waiter has been arrested Lor
flirting after being warned once py tne
police. He is believed to be the nrst
waiter in history who refused to take any
kind of a tip.
1t was a great joke on the robbers VINO
\ Id I'D a train in Texas to find that the
porter had already taken UP his collection
and disappeared $3.50
The tight skirt is a sure cure for house
work of any kind -,
Most of the female beauty dope IN inns
country is being written by men VINO nave
filet de mignon compilations and warts on
their noses. =,
There are a good many honest men VINO
die in the poor house but good many
more who don't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13
According to Uncle Abner.


The best way 1 know of to die poor Is
to git involved in a lawsuit over HAe
fence. ,
There is only one thing that is harder
than Shawn the back of your neck anu anu
that is to disengage sheet OF stlcky ny
paper from the bosom of your trousers.
One of the cheapest ways to get repu-
tation for great wealth is to stand N
front of a swell cafe with a toothplck IN
yer mouth.
About the most useless specimen of hu-
manity is a boardin' house Keepers nus
band.
There is too much education and not
enough larnin' to the average coleSe
course.
When a man lets his 12-year-old kid run
a big touring it just goes to show
that there are still lot of fools in this
world.
Hank Frisby and his wife sold all II
their bedroom suites, their stove and their
dining room furniture to buy an automo-
bile, and still some say there is no pros
perity in this country. 1t doesn't take
long to find out what some people know
out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-13

Broadening Ones Sympathies.
The more we know the better we for
give,
Whoever feels deeply feels for all who