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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
SAYS UNCLE CIV

If you ever amount to much you'll
have to undergo periodical processes
| of rejuvenation. Businesses ana ca
reers are q good deal like coats. The
| best of them will sag, wrinkle and
| finally fray in certain places. You
can't change your business or your
career with the fashions-you've got
to wear the same one for a good
many years, if not throughout life.
And even as the coat that goes often
est to the cleaners and preSser S
wears best, SO the business that is
oftenest shaken up, pressed into
shape and rid of it's wrinkles fares
best.
The most dangerous opening in
the face of earth isn't the pitfall, the
crevasse or the canyon-it's the rut.
The man who finds himself 'in a
hole will crawl out, somehow or
other, though both arms and legs are
in need of splints. That is, if he ever
falls in. Comparatively few of us do
because we are watching for pitfalls.
We don't look out for ruts, and the
man in the rut seldom realizes that
he is there. Hence he trots along,
willing prisoner at the chariot wheel
of circumstance, and when he can
no longer trot he dies a failure.
The beaten track was made for
mediocres. 1t is of no use to the
pioneer or to any other leader save
as he leave sit behind him for others
to follow. It's his business to make
the tracks for the rut lovers who
come after. Every rut is posted in
mystic characters which only the
wise can understand, "Danger-Keep
Out"
They surrender all freedom who
disregard or cannot read the signs.
So lest you get into the habit of trot-
ting the ruts, take a new trail now
and then. Lest your business wrin-
k1e and fray, shake it up and get rid
of the creases. Avoid the perfume
tory as you would poison. There are
a thousand-and-one little things that
one must do mechanically, but there
are no big things that you can afford
to do in that fashion.
When you have done a thing so
often in the same way that you lose
interest in it, it's time for you to be-
gin to dodge ruts and eradicate wrin-
kles. Take a rest and then find a
new angle of the old, familiar task.
New angles mean new interest, new
interest means new effectiveness and
new effectiveness means new profits.
There is not sufficient profit to you
in anything that you cannot approach
with tingling anticipation. Your bust
ness or your career must be thing
alive and beloved. To keep it so, you
must see that it occasionally puts on
a new face.-(Copyright 1913, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
j. PIERPONT MORGAN,

In the death of ]. Pierpont Morgan
which occurred at Rome yesterday
there passed away one of the greatest
| financiers the world has known. Fol
| half a century he has been a prominent
] figure in the commercial affairs of the
country. For much of what is popu-
| larly called big business he is respon-
sible.
Beginning in a small way he was
able in few years to pass all his rivals
in the race for supremacy, in the mat
ter of American financial affairs and
has long occupied a place which made
it almost necessary for projectors of
large transactions in the business and
industrial world to consult him OF seek
his aid.
1t speaks well for the stability of his
house and of financial conditions in
general in the United States that his
death caused scarcely a CULVER in the
market.
Mr.. Morgan, during his life time was
sometimes praised but oftener maligned.
Probably in many ways he has been
misjudged. Few persons especially in
the prominent walks of life are not.
Perhaps in time we shall know the
truth about him now that he is gone,
and be better able to judge him fairly
and without prejudice.
Shakespeare makes Mark Antony
say:
THE evil men do lives after them;
the good is often inferred with their
bones" This may have been true in
the time of Caesar or at the time the
playwright wrote, but happily it is not
true today. The evil is soon for
gotten and the good is longest remem-
bered. And it is a fine thing that is so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
POINTED PARAGRAPrs.
IFrom the Chicago News

From the chicago NeWs-l
The truth seeker has a lifetime job.
md some rich men are crooked IS
tbs dollar mark
Even an iron watchdog can't scare the
H off from your door.
One way to save money is to run when
you see a friend coming
All things come to those who are willing
to meet them half way.
1t makes some girls awfully tired to do
anything but go visiting
Something is wrong when a man meas
ures his means by his meannesS-
In times of peace a lot of otherwise
sensible people prepare to get married.
While a pull will help in politics. it is
more satisfactory to work for your living.
fool " oman tries to drive a man with
a club. A wise one leads him by hair.
Nothing pleases some folks more than
to be the first to peddle piece of I'm
savory gossip
How absurd to act like a fool and then
heoem indignant when attention is rallied
to it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
from the Philadelphia Record. !


1t is the part of wisdom to treat an old
man with generation, an old woman with
tact.
We generally have more sympathy for
the under dog than have for the small
potato.
The girl who marries her ideal general
" lives to discover that there isn't any
such thing.
The good die young. In fact, the older
a man grows the more chance he has of
being found out
Don't cotton too strongly to the fellow
who always agrees with you. He gen.
orally wants to be paid
Oratory is a divine gift. and yet many
mans weakness has been developed
from the power of speech.
Life, to a great many people, is merely
a resting place between plans for the
future and regrets for the past.
Tommy-"Pop, what is a prude'' Tom
my's Pop-''A prude, my son, is girl
who would hesitate to go on her we'd
ding trip without a chaperon.'
Wigg-'Buggins has a keen sense of
humor. hasn't he Wagg-"I should say
he has. Why, would you believe it, that
man can joke with his wife about her
dressmaker's bills
Blobbs-''what ever became of that fell
low Bjones, who was always waiting for
something to turn up Slobbs-"He final
~ married a girl with pug nose.
The Optimist had lost heavily. 'Oh,
WE'LL he. remarked as he rose from /
gaming table, ''unlucky at cards. lucky
at love- rs that true in your case3''
sneered the Pessimist. Sure" replied
the Optimist. AT any rate, 1 have never
been marrIed.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
by THE WAY
BIT HARVEY PARSONS.

One of the latest Turko-Bulgal
frappes was staged at Biyuk Chek'
meyyde. The defeat of the Bulgarian:
may be traced, by an expert tracer, tc
the name of the place. After pro-
nouncing it they had no fighting en-
ergy left.
Party named Kuhs is running fol
Louis. But according to opposing
candidates, a large number of his
relatives are running for office all
over the country.
The superlative in residential arch
itecture is one house big enough for
two married women and their fami-
lies.
Sympathizers are serenading the
suffragette prisoners in the London
jails. But far be it from the English
jailors, who haven't that sixth sense,
to advertise for boarders thus:
Music with your force-feed meals"
Half the candidates may feel peev-
ish when the votes are counted, but
they will not Crouch like the average
man who bets on his convictions.
Promptly at 5o7 this afternoon, the
first person will call up a newspaper
office and ask: who was elected
mayor?' We have the time placed to
a dot, because it has been advancing
into the daylight hours 21 and five
sixth minutes with every city election
of the past dozen years.
Out in California. an effort is be-
ing made to put the abalone, or one
sided clam, in class with the game
bird, and prohibit his removal from
the cold, calm bosom of the Pacific
ocean. That law would work little
hardship on the Pacific coast, but it
would be a sad blow to the rural
jewellers of the interior districts, who
just must have at least two abalone
shells on the parlor mantle.
The man who insists upon marry
ing a quiet girl, should try Olathe.
They have several of them approach
ing manageable age at a State in
stitution in that city.
Newspapers all over the country, as
we'll as political students, favor Gov
ernor Hodges plan for commission
form of government in states as well
as cities, but one weak spot in the
idea has been overlooked. Judging
from the recent campaign in small
city not over three feet from this desk,
the commission form of government
does not eliminate from politics what
has the greatest need of elimination
a dirty. mud-sling ing campaign.
The time is rapidly approaching
when every MAJ will have the oppor-
tunity to get plenty of healthfu1 out
door exercise; t. e.. swatting the dan
delions that blew over from his neigh
boris yard last fall.
Yea, mates, it's a short ballot, and
we should have indicative returns in
time to miss the last car home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

The Belt Line corporation of Man
haitian Island has applied to the pub
lie service commission for permission
to change its motive power on the
routes from Fifty-ninth street to the
Battery from animal power TO storage
batteries. When this shift shall have
been effected and the New York Rail-
ways company gets around to the cleo
|trification of its Chambers street horse
cars, New York will have caught up
with the procession in the matter of
urban passenger transportation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHsoN GLOBE

Your territory is all right; the troubl
is with you.
Primping helps the young and makes
the old ridiculous.
One way to tell an aristocrat is that ne
doesn't show it by being snob.
While the mummy doesn't have much
fun. his troubles are also somewhat IN
significant
refer to a Jews harp a musical in
strument.
Children in this enlightened age are ire
quently spoiled without the aid of a
grandmother.
The martyr strain, We believe, has a
higher average development among woNl-
en- than among men.
Try to get a job SO important they will
say you have handed in your resignation
if you get fired.
When married woman says life is
humdrum she hasn't become tired of HT-
ing but tired of marriage
A detective is always a disappointment
to U.S. he is so blamed different from our
old friend Sherl Holmes.
Because he has so much trouble with
his wife Jude Johnson has named his
residence THE Balkans"
Il may have had some excuse, but I
never claimed to quit school because L
was needed at home. '-Rufe Hoskins.
If spring continues to behave in this
dedicate an ode to her sweet personality.
Golf is great game, according to tfose
who play 1t. And SO is every other game
according to the men who play it.
When spring comes along, nearly every
one becomes worthless, and feels that
more holidays is the crying need of the
nation
A man never realizes how many pockets
he has until he runs out of matches and
makes thorough search of mis- raiment.
Alb Adkins who hasn't much of an edu-
cation blames the Law for not providing
q patriotic truancy officer in the days OF
HI foI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
Caught on the Fly.

cleveland, Cixth CITY," is the slo-
gan of the Ohio metropolis. but no
Cleveland man has yet tried to say It
while intoxicated.
When a man speaks of AUTOMOBILE
ing as motoring it is a cinch that his
eldest daughter has been abroad.
Old Doc Evans of Chicago says
ichthyosis is a congenial disease. but
it certainly sounds kind of scratchy.
There will be no bunny hug or
turkey trot at the White House dur
ing the Wilson regime. The admins
tration hopes to accomplish greater
things than freak dances.
1t seems to be getting harder and
harder for San Francisco to stay on
the map. 1t is now resorting to a po-
lice investigation.
Taft and abbey will help elevate
the legal profession in the future.
And there is no denying that the legal
profession needs it.
Yes the Panama canal may change
the climate. 1t has already caused
chilliness between America and
England.
1t is perfectly safe to send eggs by
parcel post, providing they are hard
hni1pd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
THE LESSON OF THE FIELDS.

The LESSON OF THE FIELDS.
Inc worries and the little cares
That fretted me of yore
Have disappeared-and they, know
VIII trouble me no more.
L saw thousand forms of life that
throbbed with joy while 1
Alone was sad and discomfort beneath
the placid sky
Then faith in God took root, and now
my trust in Him is strong;
Each day / dwell in happiness, and each
hour is a song;
And am glad because my God through
nature spoke to me
When first 1 rambled through the fields
that border on the sea-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

After fire burned the weeds away and
the wind and the sand FURNISHED the
rails. says the Hutchinson News. the
Northeastern railroad, out from Garden
City, was rediscovere1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

And this is how it happened: The
wind blew the sand with such violence
against the wire fences that abound in
the short grass country, that the fric-
ton created an electric current which
set fire to the prairie grass, and the
fire burned over four or five counties
before it was stopped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

The man with the copy of the Ulster
County Gazette containing the story of
Washington's funeral, has reached
Manhattan. He could give Eugene
Sues Wandering Jew" cards and
spades and beat him in the game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Five K. U. students are going on the
vaudeville stage. A vaudeville course
in our colleges and universities is one
of the possibilities of the future.
Vaudeville pays better than many of
the professions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

The Wichita Eagle wants to know
whether the consumer or the consumed
will be taxed for the fee that will SUD-
port the state fire marshaPs office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Leavenworth is planning a "get-to-
gether'' meeting to be held after cleo
ton. 1t would hardly be worth while
to attempt it at an earlier date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
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 Dr.
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publicat ton in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puT-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

An eastern chicken fancier is
trying to develop a wingless chicken.
What is needed more than that is a
wingless price
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
st. PauPs Oldest Woman Dies.

st. Paul, Mimi, April Mrs. Annie
kirkpatrick, st. Paul's oldest woman,
died at the home of a daughter here early
today aged 104. after an illness of six
months. A son, aged so, lives at Lemars,
Iowa. and another son, Andrew, Il, lives
at Dubuque, Iowa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

H. G. James started to work on the
Independence Reporter at ten dollars
a week. Soon he owned the paper. All
of which spells hope for the cub of to-
day, says the Wichita Eagle, even if
ten dollars is a high-water mark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

New Jersey sportsmen urge a tax
on cats in order to save the birds
Wttnt the birds for themselves. per-
haps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Senator Cummins says that at the
extra session he will push his bill to
prevent gambling in futures. If it
goes through says the Boston Trans
crfpt, it will be the hardest blow the
Bull Moosers have ever sustained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Tom-"You spend altogether too much
money on that girl Don't you know girls
always accept everything a man gives
them and then marry the fellow who
saves his money!" Jack-''SuTe 1 do.
That's the reason I'm blowing in mine"
Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

1t is said that lone touch of nature
makes the whole world kim" but that
at Dayton was more than a touch. IT
was a blow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

The Manhattan Nationalist has just
Installed a webb perfecting press at a
cost of $1,000 and on Thursday issued
a 12-page edition in celebration of the
event
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

The farmers of Crisfield. Md.
charge that conclusions caused by the
fleets big guns at target practice in
Chesapeake bay have destroyed spring
settings of eggs. Well, we have all
heard that thunder sours milk,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

The last legislature added to the high
cost of living by making divorces more
expensive than formerly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

A formerly of F'redOnia man has sued
John d. Rockefeller for a little over
three million dollars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Mayor Gaynor has ordered all the
New York saloons to close at 1 o'clock
Probably the police need a little extra
money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

There are said to be a million auto
mobiles in use in the United States
One can easily believe it at times.
when he attempts to cross Kansas
avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Poems about the storm at Omaha
already have begun to make their ap-
pearance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Ebert Hubbard says a conquered
country is always compelled to learn
the language of the conquerors. Yet,
the New Workers do not all speak the
Irish language.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

fe-''Why do you treat your stenog-
rapher SO much better than you do mo-.
Husband-"Simple enough; can dictate
to her.''-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Haroid-"You don't believe I love your
Susie-.sNo you don't heaye your chest
like the lovers do in the moving pictures"
Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Then again the special session may
have been postponed a week so as to
allow the baseball season to open and
take the public eye off of congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
ON TIE SPUR
or THE AOMENT
The Retort Courteous.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

Have you any dates?" asked the
lady of the grocerman over the tele-
phone
mo, madam, 1 haven't" he replied,
land L am not making any. 1 am a
decent married man."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01
LEVEE ORDERED CUT.
To Save Life and Property at
ShaWneetOWn.
Danger at EvansvilI

Cairo, April 1.-The levee has been
ordered cut at Shawneetown to save
life and property
Danger at Evansville.
Evansville, Ind, April 1.-The Ohio
river here stood at 1876 today within an
inch of the January flood crest and
the rise was expected to continue for
two days. The low lands here are we'll
cleared of jewellers.
Chief danger exists at the mouth of
the Wabash, where rescue parties from
Mount Vernon, Indiana are at work
Shawneetown, Illinois reported today
that it's levee was holding but the town
is deserted, under orders from the
militia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

One of the latest Turko-Bulgar
frappes was staged at Biyuk Chek-
meyyde. The defeat of the Bulgarians
may be traced, by an expert tracer, TO
the name of the place. After pro-
nouncing it they had no fighting en-
ergy left.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Party named Kuhs is running for
member of the school board in ST.
Louis. But according to opposing
candidates, a large number of his
relatives are running for office all
over the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

SympathiZerS are Serenading the
suffragette prisoners in the London
jails. But far be it from the English
jailors, who haven't that sixth sense,
to advertise for boarders thus:
Music with your force-feed meals %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

The superlative in residential arch
itecture is one house big enough fol
two married women and their fami
lies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

Half the candidates may feel peev-
ish when the votes are counted, but
they will not crouch like the average
man who bets on his convictions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-01

The time is rapidly approaching
when every MAJ will have the oppor
tunity to get plenty of healthfu1 out
door exercise; i. e., swatting the dan
delions that blew over from his neigh
bor's yard last fall.
The Detroit times., 1913-01-01
DOMESTIC ROW BARES
ALLEGED ELOPEMENT

John Unsworth, carpenter. 80
years old, of No. 221 First-st., was ar
rested by Patrolman Poole and Motor.
cycle Officer Smith, on white slav-
cry charge. Monday night and Mrs.
Anna Pomeroy, 81 years old. proprie-
tress OF rooming house at the First
ST address, Is held as witness
against him. ~ the sequel 10 All elope-
ment. in winch the pair figured in
1906
The couple had n battle. Monday,
when Mrs. Pomeroy alleges. Unsworth
treated her I'm brutal manner because
she would not give him money that he
demanded from her, nd she struck
him with beer bottle. When the
police came, she gave the story of her
misft romance which caused the seri.
Gus charge against Unsworth.
She says that she was living hap
PLY with her husband and four chill
dren in Brantford, Ont. when Uns
worth appeared and courted her. in
ducing her TO elope with him and
come here. Then, she alleges, he
sent her out on the streets. and she
claims to have supported him ever
since
The Detroit times., 1913-01-01
KANSANS WANT FEDERAL
JUDGE IMPEACHED

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Dec 31.-Reso-
buttons demanding the impeachment
OF Federal Judge John c. Pollock were
adopted today by commissioners OF
Kansas City. Kas.. on account OF HIS
decision at Kansas City, Mo-, permit.
ting the Kansas Natural Gas company
TO increase its prices from IA cents to
81 cents per thousand cubic feet. The
decision caused TO Kansas City Gas
company to- so into the hands OF a
receiver today, and prevented this city
enforcing its ordinance compelling the
company TO furnish gas at 20 cents
Residents Of AZ cities In Missouri
Kansas and Oklahoma must pay more
for gas under the decision.
The Detroit times., 1913-01-01
BERRY BROS. BOOST
CAPITAL TO $4,000, 900

The firm OF Berry Bros, Limited
one OF the oldest and largest firms in
the paint and varnish business in the
United States, has filed articles in
creaslng the capitalization from ST.
100000 10 100000 The charter un-
der which the company has been run
ming for 20 years expires at the close
OF the year The new Incorporation
will be under the name Berry Broth
ers. The capital stock is divided into
81 100000 common and $l.500,000 pre-
ferred. The old stockholders will re-
ceive the new stock en- basis OF
three for one.
The officers of the company as II is
recognized are as follows: Chairman,
Frank w. Blair; vice-chairman. Thorn.
as Berry and +. w Pendleton; secre-
tary. DR.. Edwin Lodge; treasurer
George n. Russell: assistant secretary
S. l.. Colby; assistant treasurer. w
r. Carnegie; general manager, James
S. Stevenson.