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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
JFrom the Chicago News.I

From the chicago NeWS.I
No man is happy unless he thinks he is.
Some men are too tender-hearted to
beat rug.
Bachelor quarters may be exchanged for
better halves.
Few men reach 60 without wishing they
had been more economical.
It's enough to make a horse laugh to
see male fIirt nursing a broken heart.
The man who marries to suit himself is
easily suited-so his friends think.
Never attempt to borrow trouble; If you
do, people will insist upon presenting it
tic you.
One may sometimes guess how a young
man will turn out by noting the time he
turns in
A competent young widow can be just
as much interested in a man as II he were
really interesting
When a man says he was driven to
drink he always insinuates that some
woman handled the ribbons.
An old man who suffers from dyspepsia
has but little sympathy for a young wom-
an who merely has a broken heart.
What has become of the old fashioned
girl who always said when young man
tried to kiss her and failed, Did you ever
get left?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
AYHAWKER JOTS

A vacation is one of those periods
of time, thinks the Ottawa Republic,
concerning which the average man is
glad when it's over.
This is a free country" argues the
Atchison Globe, 'inasmuch as one
may swat flies without a hunters IL
cense. Moral: Get busy"
Nor does there seem to be any de-
crease, says the Atchison Champion.
in the number of persons who believe
that they have the divine right to i'm
pose on home newspapers.
One of the peculiar results, some
times, of overheating in extremely hot
weather, says the Concordia Kansan,
is complete lapse of memory. So
don't be too harsh in judgment of
back the ten he borrowed of you last
week-he may have become over
heated.
An observation from the Solomon
Tribune: There is more joy in a print
ing office over the sinner who pays in
advance and abuses the editor on ev-
cry possible occasion, than there is
over ninety and nine who borrow the
paper and sing its praises without con-
tributing one cent to keep 1t out of
the poor house.
There is to be big trap shoot"
down in southern Kansas this week,
notes the Lawrence Gazette, and 1t
adds: Trap shooting has about the
same relation to hunting. as pitching
horse shoes has to harvesting, but now
that the hunters are forbidden to
shoot anything but rabbits and crows,
possibly trap shooting will become a
real sport for the sports.
Out at the poultry house, relates
the Atchison Globe, they tell the story
of young man who nearly froze to
death last week when the mercury
was doing it's best to reach 100 in the
shade 1t was in the afternoon and
the young man was changing his
clothes preparatory to knocking off
work for the day. He had just di-
vested himself of every article of
clothing with the exception of a sig
net ring when one of the young lady
stenographers from the office was
seen approaching. In panic he
leaped into one of the refrigerators.
The stenographer loitered for some
time and when 1t was safe for the
young man to come out it is said he
was covered with frost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
HUl4OR or TIE D\Y

"Oh, papa, Mr.. Spooner proposed last
night" Are you sure he loves your" He
both die If you try to live on the salary
he's getting ."-Boston Transcript
What brought you to this sad situa-
tion?" inquired the jailer. Il got caught
between stations" answered the CRATER.
81 couldn't be on the level, and wasn't
strong enough to figure as the man higher
up."-Washington Star.
d-"Congratulations, old man.
I'm going to be married again" Crab
shaw-'Why, 1 thought you once told me
that you always profited by your mis-
akes."-Judge.
May I ask you how old your wife is?"
Certainly you may ask her, too, If you
wish."-Houston Post
us that man, who is running around
giving advice a lobbyist7' Certainly
not. He is on Our Side of the argument"
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
FROM OTHER PENS
AMATEUR BANDIT WHO FAILED.

AMATEUR BANDIT WHO FAILED.
There is a streak of the Bob Acres
temperament in the average man who
tolls and who has the belated notion Of
becoming a bandit. View the instance
of a railroad section hand who shot
a bank cashier. failed to get any money
and surrendered to a pursuing body
which had nothing formidable but
stones to throw. The fugitive had both
a rifle and a revolver. The real bandit
would not have quit voluntarily with the
arsenals reversed. The so called born
criminal of the desperate type is an
actually in the minds of the police
born under conditions that make him
daring and vicious and not necessarily
a criminal by inheritance. The trans
lation of a section hand into a desper-
ado becomes more than unlikely
nearly mpossible-requisite courage
not being bred from the tamping of
tracks. Such nerve as may be need
ed for suicide failed notably in Lincoln
Park when a sparrow cop' trailed a
man out to deep water and threatened
to shoot him If he didn't wade in. The
threat had the desired effect. Cour-
age exists in the proportion of the
worthiness of its displpay.-Chicago
Post
TEA ON FREE LIST, YET DUTIABLE
The Republican congress which pass
ed the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill in 1909
withstood the almost importunate de-
mands of a small minority of the tea
trade, which for speculative purposes
was strenuously advocating the i'm
position of a duty on tea. The congress
refused to tax tea because such a
course would obviously be antagonistic
to the Republican platform so far as
this particular article was concerned,
which promised a tariff revision down
ward, and for the further reason that
tea is not a luxury, but a part of the
daily necessities of the average Ameri-
can family. Perhaps congress was
further Influenced against any tax on
tea by the knowledge that every effort
to tax tea except for war revenue pur-
poses has met with popular disapprov-
al. 1t remains for the Democratic
party, which has always rung the
changes on its desire to lessen the bur-
dens of the poorer classes, to place
a tax on tea. To be sure, this is to be
done in an indirect way. Tea will re-
main on the free list, but the con-
tanners (tin cans which are worthless
when used) are to be taxed under the
provisions of the Underwood bill, and
tea is the only article on the free list
so Disseminated against.-New York
Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
TO CONVERT THE WHOLE WORLD

TO CONVERT THE WHOLE WORLD
In the Interesting People" depart
ment of the July American Magazine
appears an article about John r. Mott,
a young American layman who has
dreamed a prodigious dream that the
world can be conquered by Christian
ity in a generation, if Christians will
only concentrate Following is an ex-
tract from the article:
HE began his great work as travel
ing secretary for the International
Young Mems Christian association,
his department having charge of the
universities and colleges of America
and Canada. In this direction he de-
veloped the Student Volunteer Move
ment. He is now chairman of the
movement. The strategy of the or
ganization is soon apparent; it aims to
interest students in the Christian con-
quest of the world. AS a result of it's
work no less than 4,7S4 men have
| been enlisted for service in non-Chris-
tan lands. In 1910, S6s student vol
unteers went forth to win the crusade.
At the convention of the movement
held in Rochester, N. Y, in January,
1910, S.747 delegates were present.
representing 735 universities and col
1eges The movement has now four
teen secretaries who spend their entire
time among the institutions Of learn
ing, advising, inspiring, directing the
enthusiasm of the students. What
splendid strategy! The world con-
quest is not a matter of casual and
spontaneous zeal felt by occasional
people Of superspirttuality, but it is
preached and cultivated as magnifi-
cent life program in the places where
the flower of the race is assem- bled.
AS rule, the personnel of the invad-
ing army is changing. 1t is not I'M
usual to find a university sending the
pick of it's athletes and scholars to
China, India, or Japan.
There are men who have a slight
acquaintance with the commercial
communities of the treaty ports of the
east who tell you in the smokingroom
Of the steamers that Motifs visions
are vain, and that up to the present
there is nothing to show but complete
failure. But Mott has little use for an
argument that admits of defeat. He
is a superlative optimist; he says the
world can be conquered in a genera
ton if Christians will put their brains
and time and money and prayers into
the task. And perhaps more than any
other man he is bringing it to pass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
QUAKER fluctuations,

IF-om the Philadelphia Record.1
Lofty manners are never above re-
proach-
his phiz.
The average tombstone expression is too
good to be true.
The bibulous chap who gets on bats is
the one who gets bald
Don't run to meet trouble; It will over
take you soon enough.
The girl who gives her kisses away must
never expect to have any stolen.
man who has the longest hair
Doesn't always have his hair the longest.
Many people extend a glad hand and
keep the other doubled up in case of an
emergency.
Some women" says the Manayunk
Philosopher, marry for love, some for
money. Others split the difference by
marrying for love of money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Physical pain is as nothing when
compared with mental agony.
AS usual thing, real genius is
done up in most peculiar packages.
T. =
An optimist takes stock of what he
has, a pessimist of what he hasn't.
d = p
And the love that laughs at lock-
smiths usually sheds many tears be-
fore very long. "a ~.
IL II II
Life is filled with ups and downs,
and with most people the downs seem
to pred Dominate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Governmental energies are also be-
ing expended to increase the supply
Of lobster. But it is fortunate that
the efforts in this direction are to be
devoted only to the crustacean va
riety. There is already more than
enough of the other kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
TOO STRONG TO BE SAFE.

Bulgaria is credited by neutral
sources of information about the new
Balkan war with making much head
way against the Greeks and Serbs alike.
The armies Of both Servia and Greece
seem to have been hard hit
But these successes may prove ex-
tremely perilous to the most powerful
of the Balkan kingdoms. Every Bull
garian victory tends strongly to draw
Roumania into action and to tempt the
Turks to strike once more while their
most dangerous foe among the lesser
states of Europe is fully occupied with
other enemies. The more powerful the
Bulgarian armies look the greater the
incentive to Rounanfa to join Servia
and Greece in trying to break the
strength of the Bulgars before it be-
comes formidable enough to make such
an attempt hopeless.
Chiefly because the Bulgarian forces
fight so we'll and the nation behind them
shows so much vitality and capacity
for great sacrifices, it will not be sur
prising If the Bulgars presently face
five countries in arms against them.
They may be attacked by Roumania on
the north, by Servia, with Montenegro
actively engaged as an ally of the
Serbs, on the west, by Greece on the
south and by Turkey on the southeast.
In that case not more than 100000
people would be at war with 10000, 900,
and fully 10000, 900 of the allies would
have to be rated formidable adversar-
les.
Meanwhile, three of the Balkan
states are losing their fighting men
rapidly and exhausting their resources.
A month hence they may be: SO re-
duced in strength that even the Turks
can make important gains if they seize
the opportune moment for renewing
the war which has not yet been ended
by a definite and final treaty of peace.
It IS certain that the losses of the
last few days have fallen heavily upon
the Bulgars, Serbs and Greeks alike,
and the battles fought have been bitter
Iy contested. All the conditions exist
ing indicate continued bloody work by
large armies and the widening rather
than narrowing of the theater of war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
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
Of ten cents a week or thirty cents
a month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. WINE
out of town the State Journal VIII ne
to you like daily letter from nome
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

President Wilson has been presented
with a garden rake. A fine-tooth
comb would be more useful For he
certainly needs some such instrument
to locate the jokers in the tariff bill.
1t is safe to say that only a few of
them have been unearthed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Colonel Roosevelt can always be
depended upon to do something I'M
usual. He has just travelled all the
way from New Mexico without max
ing a speech or even giving out an
extended interview.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Having contributed no less than
$1O,O00,O00 for the promotion of
peace, Andrew Carnegie undoubtedly
regrets his former Hberality to the
cause of education. Nearly $50 stu
dents at colleges and universities in
all parts of the country have gathered
on the field of Gettysburg for a six
weeks course in military training.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Among the good roads enthusiasts,
in all probability, are hoop snakes.
What a boon the will be for this
wiggler that has the habit of grasping
its tail with its teeth, and then bowling
along the highways at such a terrific
rate of speed that no human is sharp
eyed enough to see it pass by.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

This is also the season OF the year
when many of the brush baseball
leagues succumb to the heat, or some
thing else. And it is usually the
something else which may be more
specifically described as the lack of
support of erstwhile ardent fans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

1t is figured that the income and
corporation taxes will add something
more than 500, 100000 a year to the
federal revenues. And it is a moral
certainty that those who will be COM
PEELED to pay this huge sum directly
to the government will not be slow in
finding ways to get it back from those
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

President Wilson should not take
any offense because Congressman
Mann referred to him as scared
rabbit, considering the way he ran
last November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

1t is reasonable to assume that Dave
Lamar has a nest-egg of sufficient
proportions to keep him comfortably
for the rest of his life. If he hasn't,
ne is up against 1t, for his pickings in
Wall street will be mighty slim from
nnU
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Kansas needs rain and needs it bad
Nv. But it can worry along without a
rain of fire like the one that fell in
Snain recently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

David Lamar's attempts to create
the impression that he was one of
Wall streets lambs will fall on deaf
ears. He has been most properly
characterized the country-over as the
original Wall street wolf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Probably the Topekans who paid
So per to see Sarah Bernhard in the
flesh are kicking themselves again
and harder than ever because of the
present-day opportunities to watch
her perform in the movies"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

How did you list the money that for
tune-teller got from you?' 81 put 1t under
the head of prophet and lost-"-Baltimore
American.
Mother-'tNow, Mabel dear would you
sooner stay at home with me, OF go for
walk with Auntie?'' Mabel-'Td sooner
go for walk with you-'-Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Incidentally. the kind of currency
bill most people want is one with g
big 20 on it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

1t would be a shame to deprive men
of the right to make fun of the way
women dress, but just the same they
are doing most of the sweating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

There will be no tight money dur
ing this administration" But wait
until the vacation season is over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Eager young man. who has called on
adored one-'T can't wait any longer,
dear. 1 really had to phone VIII you
marry me?' Gentle voice, in reply-"Why,
yes of course, 1 will But haven't you got
the wrong number?'-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

avoid the fly as you would a
viper" says a health authority That
sounds all right. but the fly won't
Let us.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the fuil Gay
feleSraph report Of that great news Dr.
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
pubficetion in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
NAL building over wires for this sole pux-
pesS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11

Public opinion is likely to concur
in the reversal of the governments
decision that it's a $3.50 crime to kiss
n Oir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
KANSAS COAMEWT
CONSEPVATTON

Inc question of conservation and re-
| tion mas been attracting the at
| tehtlon OF public men all over the conn
nor the past several years. A trip
Inrougn the old pineries of western
view forK' where the pine tree grew in
abundance and undisturbed. will CON
| vince the most skeptfcal of the irnnort-
ance ana the value OF conservation
unions OF feet of valuable lumber
| nave gone to decay, the result of
wanton waste on the part of the i'm
per companies. The pine is forever
| destroyed and in its stead is growing
slender saplings of other trees of no
value to any one. The question of con-
ser lllon is very forcibly impressed up
on Kansas people in the gas fields of
the eastern part of the state. When gas
was first discovered, no effort was
MADE to conserve the supply but IL
was allowed to run wild. MANY towns
IN the gas belt allowed their city lights
to burn day and night, proceeding on
| the theory that it was cheaper to let
them burn than it was to light matches
| to start them every night Today Kan
| sas has no natural gas, and is COM
PEELED to draw on resources of a sister
state for her supply. Many million
acres OF arid lands are today unoccu-
pied and valueless on account of the
lack OF moisture. Underneath the sur
lace only short distance, is an in
exhaustible supply or water, that only
needs to be brought to the top, to con-
vert this almost desert into a valuable
garden spot. Practically every expert
| ment that has been made in the mat
ter or irrigation has been success.
splendid homes are now established in
what was once desert waste. Water,
trees and timber, gas and oil are natur-
al resources and should be conserved
Tor the use of the whole people. 1t may
be all right to build a large navy for
plun1ng purposes, but it would be of far
more benefit if less money was spent
on battleships. and more money used
for irrigation purposes. Less money for
standing army in an era of peace
and more money for conservation is in
our opinion a wise course to follow
Hutchinson Gazette.
THE ROLLING STONE.
1t may be all right to go west and
grow UP with the country, as the late
H. Greeley suggested; it might also
be all right to go east or north or
south, either, if one will eventually
stop long enough to give the country
an opportunity to grow up. But no
one but an army officer or a Metho-
dist preacher or someone who is anx-
ious to get away. can make much OF
success by making moving a con-
tinuous performance. AS you have
frequently been told, travel is a great
educator, but one should eventually
graduate. besides taking extended va
cations in the meantime. There are
certain advantages in staying awhile,
besides the mere matter of moss
gathering. To one of the right sort,
it is well to linger long enough to get
acquainted with others of his kind.
Besides, travel is one thing, and NOV
ing is something else again, as old
Mont. Glass might formulate.-Atchi-
son Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
BY THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

1t is reported that Bale Waggener
is to be opened again. If it is to be
semi-annual occurrence, the Doctors
Mayo should equip Uncle Bale with
a set of hooks and eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-23
MALARIA Tonnes

once. Are you crazy: Indeed, by this
time he thought she was.
Margaret was thunderstruck. Saints
above u.s." she said. If it isn't the boss
himself They hurried to open the
door and Maggie began to apologize for
what they had done and TO explain how
it happened but Mr.. Marsh was in no
mood to be soothed by soft words after
and would not listen. Out Of my sight.
he roared, and leave my house tomor-
row.
The next day Tim called to explain to
Maggie why he had not come the night
before. Maggie was gone, but Ellen saw
him and told him what had happened.
and that it was caused by Maggie hear
ing that he going to marry her
friends niece.
Did she think that was me-" Tim
asked why, that is my cousin. / only
heard of 1T myself yesterday
Tim lost no time finding Maggie and
explained why he did not call the even
ing before He related how he had been
surprised by Mr.. Marsh on the doorstep
and how he had started to call again an
hour later, when he saw Mr.. Marsh
come to the window and look out. Re-
Numbering that ne had cautioned Mr..
Marsh to look out for the suspicious
character" he feared he would be mis-
taken for one and hastily jumped behind
the bushes and made his retreat, as he
thought. without being seen. Il wanted
to tell you, dearest, that my cousin Tim
was to be married soon, and to ask you
to let us make it double wedding"
And SO it was that Maggie. having
lost her place, found a home of her own.
CTHE END
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-23
The EVENING STORY.
Tins Diplomacy.
Copyright. 1918, by W. Wcrner.l


When Mr.. Marsh stepped into the din
ing room carrying his handbag Maggie
always knew he intended to spend Satur-
day night and Sunday at his summer
home His wife and daughters had been
there for several weeks and it was Mr..
Masl's custom to Speend the weeks end
with them.
Maggie OConnor was the cook and
Ellen Donahue, her lifelong friend. was
second girl. the two having been in the
Marsh home for many years. Tim Dcolin,
Marshs street. was Maggie's sweetheart
and he was expected to call that evening.
The two girls waited rather impatiently
for Mr.. Marshs usual announcement:
"I'll not be home for dinner tonight:
am going to the country. Not that Mr.
Marsh ever obiecected to the girls receiv
ing company. but with the family all
gone they could entertain without fear
of interruption.
In the course of the day Ellen, while
on shopping expedition happened to
meet a friend accompanied by her niece.
who. she confided to Ellen. was purchas-
ing her wedding outfit, for she was going
to marry Mr.. Tim Doolin, the policeman.
Ellen gave start of surprise, but re-
Trained from making any reply. There
was only one Tim Doolin on the police