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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-28
FOR UPHOLD
X. q. Professor Would Mako Il Conn
pulsory in Kansas Schools.

Lawrence, KAN, Nov. 3S.-Typhoid
inoculatf6n should be compulsory TOT
every child in the schools of the state
Of Kansas, according to DR.. John
Sundwall. professor of anatomy at the
University of Kansas.
Typhoid is now regarded as one OF
the most serious OF the infectious dis
eases" declared Doctor Sundwal to-
day mot only il the mortality high
but danger of injection afterwards. Is
Of the Rreatest-cases being known of
persons unwittingly carrying typhoid
bacilli about with them for twenty
years and more. The post-typhoid
conditions are almost as serious as
the typhoid itself. Many reputable
surgeons believe that practically all
cases of gall stones are due directly
to typhoid. Other serious results OF
typhoid are injection of the bones and
what is known as typhoid spine. for
both Of which operations are neces-
sary."
Doctor Wright of London first in
troduced the incubation treatment
into the British army with amazing
results. Mortality from typhoid was
reduced six times where the soldiers
were vaccinated. In the United States
army the death rate was reduced ten
times. Out of 10000 unvaccinated
troops at Jacksonville. Fla. during
the Spanish American war there were
1890 cases Of typhoid and 248 deaths;
in 1912 out of 1874 vaccinated
troops on the Mexican border there
was but one typhoid case and no
deaths. And the results for the Unit
ed States in general, according to
Doctor Sundwall,. are even better than
in the army. although no specific sta
tistics can be compiled.
This il Doctor Sundwalrs explana-
ton Of the treatment.
ut Is well known that individuals
become immune to certain diseases
after once having that disease" said
Doctor Sundwall in explaining the
treatment This is accomplished by
the production of anti-bodies in the
blood which remain there and destroy
future Infection. Now II we inject
dead bacilli into the person, these
anti-bodies are produced in the same
way and this is accomplished by what
is termed typhoid vaccination"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-28
ANOTHER PIONEER DIES.
Death Came to Summer County Won
an Mt Dinner.

Oxford, Kan, Nov. 28.@Shortly
after sitting down to q Thanksgiving
dinner at noon Thursday, Mrs. George
Hess, an early settler in this county.
dropped dead OF heart failure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-28
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

So many men threaten to bet.
The man who calls his laziness hard
| luck won't fool very many.
Fat women wouldn't look so fat if they
would quit trying to look SO slender.
No matter what your Red Rag is, some
one is always hanging around to wave H.
A will do a lot of unreasonable
things in his efforts to become vindicated.
Occasionally a dog is worth as much as
its collar, many dogs having no collars.
Considering that the critics always
come in on comps, their work Is pretty
rough.
the pretzel industry will wane a good
deal.
Passing the resolutions isn't a very
hard task, there are SO many capable OF
doing Fine Writing.
A deaf person has his troubles, but the
college yells don't bother him, which
should help some
Occasionally a man invests in a patent
cigar lighter and stops mooching matches
for day two.
In telling high water stories Noah has
had lot of competition among the old
timers who followed him.
Possibly no one enjoys a headache, as
the sale of quinine and certain other
commodities might indicate.
Long hair doesn't make a poet OF
vtrtuosos do dodge the barber.
When a man is liked best by those who
know him best, he has a pretty fair rec
concentration, as such things go.
While a 1oafer may get tired of loafinS,
he prefers that sort of WEAKNESS to the
kind coming from overwork.
ct feel bad enough Alb. Adkins groan-
ed today. without having old friends
drop in to tell me how prosperous they
are"
At some time in his life nearly every
man yields to the temptation of having
his picture taken in uniform of some
kind or other.
A great deal of our large per capita con-
sumption of sugar is devoted to an effort
to try to make the gooseberry taste like
something to eat.
A widow who handles the life insur-
ance in manner satisfactory to the
neighbors probably has the greatest abil-
ity. Assuming, of course, that one of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-28
.AXHAWKER JOTS

Senator Bristow refers to his col
league from Kansas as another SEN
ator of the Lane succession"
| The Atchison Globe advises the
Japanese who plan to take San Fran
cisco: Come prepared to fight earth
| quakes, and real estate agents"
An eastern writer has proved that
| literature can be made to pay, by
growing mushrooms in his cellar. And
Bobby Campbell says that is his idea
of a soft snap.
A Manhattan paper announces that
three miles of track have been laid
in the direction of Eureka lake
and that cars will be running out to
that pleasure resort by May Is.
The lola city commissioners have
drafted an ordinance providing for
the appointment of dog warden,
whose duty it shall be to see that
no dog roams at large in lola be-
tween February 1 and October L. VIII
this be considered the CLOSED" or the
open" season?
AS examples of breaking the news
gently, the following from the Salfna
Journal are gems: IAN unloaded gun
went off in Merriam this week pre-
Brotts.' And this: THE humorist
who rocks the boat registered in at
Leavenworth this week. The funeral
was held the following day."
The following vigorous protest is
found in the Ottawa Herald: Why do
the eastern papers keep referring to
Harry Kemp as the kansas" poet?
Kemp doesn't belong to Kansas. He
never claimed the state and, Heaven
knows. the state never claimed him.
He came here to attend college, after
he had already made some little repu-
tation as a bum poet Give Kemp
to whatever state or island that wants
him. Kansas never had any claim
on him and would gladly relinquish
it if it had.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-28
THE SHREVEPORT CASE.

The action of the commerce court in
UNFOLDING the supremacy of the in
teIstate commerce commission over
state rate making bodies, in the
Shreveport case, is an important step
in the vexed rate making problem.
1t is a victory for the railroads, in
asmuch as they are DESTROYS of being
| subjected to the control, if control
they must have, of one body of men,
rather than of As separate and distinct
commission each working solely in the
! interest of the state which it repre-
| sents.
| The commerce court entirely up
| held the powers of congress and the
| interstate commerce commission to re-
move determinations caused by a
state railroad commission enforcing
| intrastate rates lower than interstate
rates which have been held to be rea-
sonable. Because of the similarity of
| the Shreveport case to the other state
rate cases, Attorney General Mercy
nolds last Monday filed a brief in in
| tervention in the state rate cases with
the supreme court, as friend of the
court
The appearance of the attorney gem
era! of a Democratic administration
| for the maintenance of the federal
| rate regulating power as against state
governments marks notably the
changes that are forcing themselves
upon the nation. While no word has
come from the supreme court as to
| the attitude of the tribunal on the
state rate question, or as to the cause
of the long delay in returning an
! opinion, there is a general belief that
the intervening of the attorney gem
| eral with his brief forecasts a decision
| in the near future.
These. state rate cases, forty-five in
number. of which the Minnesota case
generally is regarded as the test, are
practically the last stand against the
supremacy of the federal rate yeguldt-
ing power. If the interstate commerce
commission wins, its domination over
railroad rates and regulation will he
complete and the state commissions
might we'll shut UP shop.
Even a Democratic administration
is ready to confess that such centrali-
cation of power and jurisdiction is alb
solutely necessary for any practical
| enforcement of government control OF
railroads. Having reached the point
where experience upsets theory in the
matter oil railroad regulation, the time
may reasonably be anticipated when
states rights theory will yield to the
inevitable tendency for Capitalization
and the transfer of various perogazives
of government from the states to the
nation.
The United States government could
not have done otherwise than main
tain with all energy the case Of the in
terstate commerce commission against
state railway commissions which ara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-28
FREAK LEGISLATION.

In the matter of passing silly and
frealSish laws it is doubtful if any state
can lay claim to pre-eminence. 1t is
but a few weeks since the legislature
of Massachusetts passed a law regu-
lating the wearing of hatpins by
women. Under the caption Another
Dead One" the outcome is hera1ded
by the Boston Traveller in the follow
ing:
1.-The hatpin law has taken it's place
among the many laws of the COM
monwealth which are enacted and in
dexed to meet the desires of a press
agent or a passing sentiment-in the
no longer useful as subject for bright
or dull joking.
Joining the Group of Dead Laws.
it will create no particular surprise
as it makes its appearance in that
venerable organization, which num-
bers more members than the Lame
Duck society. 1t has been suggested
that there be a special official COM
pilation of Massachusetts, laws which
are not enforced and which nobody
attempts to enforce, but in view of the
cost of compiling the Province laws.
that suggestion should be withdrawn
promptly in the interest of economy.
''Massachuset suffers from acute
overlegislation. And yet Massachu-
sets points the finger of scorn at
states which lead her in making laws
that meet real issues and do not mere
ly represent the anxiety of vaudeville
legislators to obtain brief prominence
on the front pages of the newspapers"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-28

with a feeling of growing irritation
| Iheyre- both rather brazen, consider
ing the game. Well, L can take g
hand here, too,' Aloud he said, 81
understand that Miss Embree's a dan
Ger. Where does she appear?"
wen, she danced at Mrs. Van de
Waters this evening. Talk about the
poetry of motion-you should have seen
her in the Spring Song"
Then she isn't ON the stage?''
Why no; the little girl is a born
cancer and after her parents died she
went abroad to study classic dancing,
because it's fad and she can make
good living out of it. I've done all
could to help her-even lent her the
coupe to save livery bilis-and now
that Mrs. Van de Waters taken her
up l guess she will stay in New York
for the winter anyway"
Dan saw Miss Embree the follow
ing day, and on several days after.
His father did not seem to object to
his company, and as for Miss Fay
Wen, the young man was kept in a
whirl of mingled emotions. At times
the part he had set out to play seemed
to be surprisingly true to life.'
Then The dancer appeared at a So
c1ety affair, and Dan watched her
step and sway in her artistic inter
pretations. 1t was a revelation of
youthful grace, sweet and virginia.
with a coaxing witchery that tugged
at the young mans heart strings I'M
til they fairly ached.
The brilliant scene, the throng of
figures, the watching faces-all these
faded away. He was alone in a prime
val forest, with that lovely alluring
vision of springtime dancing over the
green sward, through sunshine and
MISUNDERSTANDING for him!
Suddenly he faced his father, and
spoke under his breath, tensely, al
most fierecly, Pm going to take Miss
Embree home tonight" His eyes were
shining and his chin was set. I'VE are
both young-do you understands
Two hours later, Dan faced his faith
er again 1t was in the quiet Hollis
ter library; the young mans face was
aglow, though his voice faltered as
he spoke.
petuous awhile ago, butt was car
ried away. And-Fay loves me! Didn't
you know? Can you blame me? But
1 should have had more consideration
for you-you-
The elder man had advanced and
elapsed his sons hand.
Danny, my boy, it's all right. It's
just as I planned it! 1 knew she was
the girl for you the moment 1 saw
her-and I kept her for you. Nobody
else had chance, Danny!"
''Yes-thank you" mumbled Dan,
seeming to shrink in stature.
But you're a bit stubborn, Danny;
and 1 was afraid if you knew what 1
had in mind-well, I was afraid faith
er's choice would be-why, what's the
matter?"
With a shout, Daniel, Jr., had col
lapsed into the depths of an arm
chair land was laughing uproariously.
I'm just thinking about Celia" he
said, evasively, when he had managed
to conquer his wild mirth. wait till
I see her-tomorrow!"-(C 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-28
interfering with the commissions

interfering with the commission
rates.
If the states of the Union possess
the power to nullify the orders OF the
commerce commission, they possess
the right to nullify the constitution of
the United States. by which the states
expressly grant to congress the power
to regulate commerce among the
states.
Rates which are enforced by state
board are of course rates entirely
within the state; but by fixing rate
at a lower figure for the haul within
its territory than is charged on the
same traffic and the same railroad
outside of the state, the state discriin-
mates against the citizens of other
states, and to that extent attempts 10
regulate interstate commerce.
The supreme court may find that
congress has no power to interfere
with such a state rate. 1t does not ap-
pear likely that it will do so, but 1t
may. But the national authority can
not give up without struggle right
which it has assumed, and which is
really essential to the liberty of inter-
state commerce.
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says UNCLE CIV

| I do not greatly care what men
| shall say of me after I am dead. What
shall become of that which you call
my body or me, according to your theo-
logical theories does not concern me.
Whether I shall be buried in the pot
ters field with Tolstoy and the I'M
fortunates that he loved or shall lie
beneath some Inisshapen, imposing
stone, will make no difference, except
that 1 fear 1 should be somewhat I'M
comfortable beneath so great a weight
of vanity. Whether my flesh shall be
resolved into it's primal elements by
fire worms shall perform for ma
ture a similar service, 1 have taken no
thought. Nor is the question whether
my passing shall be marked by a news
paper column or an obscure paragraph
important.
What is important is that shall be
allowed to live how and where I will
and to make free choice of my friends.
There is slavery in the blind observ-
ance of artificial distinctions. Free
dom lies only in the ability to select
from all kinds and conditions of men
that which is good in each, regardless
of the neighbors and the Pharisee who
lifts up his voice to call himself
holier than they who know neither his
ritual nor his place in the blue book
He is a pitifully small man who can
call no man friend who is not within
his own social stratum. He is a weak
man who fears to look beyond the pale
of his sect for human virtue. He is
vile man who imputes only to his
kind kind the righteousness that he
boasts. He is a most unhappy man
who cannot call all men brothers.
So, let me have courage to look worth
where it is to be found, to seek COM
fort in converse with the woman at the
well, with the black-garbed sister, the
gamin and the robed and surpliced
cleric. I would know loafers and men
of affairs, criminals and captains of
industry, publicanS and puritanS,
bishops and brawlers. Let me accept
sympathy wherever it may be offered,
since all the worlds wealth of brother
Iy love is yet too small to waste a drop
of it.
Generally speaking, the sinner means
quite as well in his way as the saint
in his. This is a good world because
most men in Or out of prison are more
than half good. They may read life in
widely different terms and taste of it
in widely different fashions and make
their returns to society in widely diff
ferent ways, but there was never a
monster of virtue or of vice that had
not his utterly human point and who
was not worth knowing.
The biggest thought ever born of hu-
man brain was universal brotherhood.
The smallest was the thing that
damned the Pharisee. 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
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WHEN DOUBT PASS A LAW.

In the course of a discussion in the
department called THE Interpreter
House." in the May American Maya
zine, appears the following:
When something happens that we do
not like, What is the first thing we
say? There ought to be a law against
it. Every timei That is the uncon-
scious tribute we all pay to the queer
est, the most naive and stupid super
stition in a world where all supersti-
ton dies hard enough-that all you
need to do to stop anything is to pass
a law against it.
No amount of experience, apparent
ly, will free the minds of men from
the incubus, the hoodoo, of this ex-
traordinary superstition. No matter
what the issuei If you want to stop
gambling, splitting, combinations of
capital or of labor, prostitution, coll
lege fraternities, the high cost of liv-
ing, arson, saloons, monopoly in re-
straint of trade, the turkey-trot, burg
larry, tips, walking on the grass; what
ever it is, there is only one thing to
do-pass a law against it. Then every
body will be contented; everybody will
believe that the offense will cease at
once, or at least as soon as lou have
gotten sufficient number of people
in Jail Only get enough laws passed,
and above all, If you can only get
enough people in Jail, you have real
lied the average mans millennial
hopes.
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EVENING CHIT
Contrast.
RY KVT1 CAMERON.

"Oh, dear, why isn't it always Sat
urday afternoon and Sunday sighed
| the Stenographer-Lady as she stopped
at my gate to exchange greetings one
| blue Monday morning.
| She expressed feeling as old and as
new as life itself. Doubtless you felt il
today as you took up your routine
again chow hard it is, by the way, to
pick up ones routine after any break
however SHORTY And yet, to say moth
! ing of the infinite joy of work itself
how much less the pleasures of idleness
would be if we did not have the con-
! trast of work.
Few people realize the value of con-
trast And yet what a tremendous
force it exerts, and what an important
/ part it plays in the lives of all of us.
1t takes the contrast of misfortune
to make US value good fortune We
drifted into a discussion the other day
as to what had been the happiest mo-
ment of our lives, and one woman said
promptly that the very happiest mo-
ment of her life was that in which she
found valuable ring which had been
loaned to her and which she had lost.
Undoubtedly there must have been mo-
ments of greater positive happiness in
her life but it was the contrast af-
forded by the misery of anxiety which
threw the happiness of that particular
moment into chief prominence.
In all the gamut of pleasures which
the world affords is there any more
exquisite sensation than the cessation
OF pain? Surely there is no one who
has suffered who cannot recall how
blessed happy is that golden moment
of relief that comes when some terrible
pain has ceased to torment
If every woman were beautiful would
there be such a thing as a beautiful
woman?
Do the people who live in id cal climates
where it is never too hot or too COOL
get as much pleasure out of their con-
tinual felicity as we do out of an oc-
casional perfect day?
If there were no such thing as death
to enhance the value of life, would
we appreciate what a wonderful thing
life is?
And, to bark back to the little Stem
ographer-Lady, how could We possibly
know the richest pleasures of idIeness
if we did not have the blessed con-
trast of work?
pute this last fact was DIR. Johnson.
and I'm sure he only did it for the
sake of being contrary. Boswell had
said, 1--WE grow weary when idle" and
johnson promptly retorted, THAT is.
sir, because others being busy. we want
company; but if we were idle there
would be no growing weary; We should
all entertain one another"
1t sounds plausible, but 1 don't be-
lieve it, and 1 don't think johnson
really believed 1t.
OF course it is hard to realize it
metimes, but life without contrast
would surely be as dull and fiat as a
picture without light and shade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-28
PoINTE1 PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

IF'rom the Chicago News.1
Food for thought-cooking school bis
cult.
If you can't pay as you go you will find
the going poor.
An egotist is a man who thinks he is
better than you are.
A platonic lover is usually quiet
chap who saves his money.
Palmistry is not for the man who is
afraid to show his hand.
When a young man thinks girls piano
practice il music-that is love
CarelessnesS is nearly always the most
costly item in an expense account.
There's room at the top, but the ex-
pert need traveller prefers the lower berth
When a man lives a double life he may
have to do two mems work, SO what s
the use?
Young man. the safest way to study
the color of her eyes is through a tele-
scope.
A married woman thinks she is being
neglected unless her husband lets her buy
his socks and ties
When a man begins by saying you are
too wise to get caught for a sucker. look
out! He is going to try a new kind OF
bait.
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THE sANDMAN,s WEDDING.

THE SANDMAN'S WEDDING.
When the Sandman married the Lady o.
Dreams,
There was joy in Shut-eye Town,
And the children forgave him with one
accord,
For closing their eyelids down.
The bride wore a necklace of shining
stars,
And wonderful white cloud gown;
And everybody was asked to come
Who lives in Shut-eye town.
She came down the aisle of afterawfile,
In the beautiful temple Of night,
Garlands of peoples were everywhere
And the moon was the only light.
The service was sung by the mothers
choir.
The music was sweet and low;
The organ notes were the sound that
floats
When the winds in the treetops blow.
So all the children of Shut-eye Town
VIII welcome the Sandman now;
They know he will bring the Lady o
Dreams.
For they witnessed his marriage VOW.
Mabel Cleland.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]

lr the HRlldQeIpIld HeCOTu.I
Many man is his own handicap.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness
sinks in to the soul.
The only real proof of success is an abiI-
ity to hold onto it
Put your best foot forward. and you
won't have so many kicks coming.
The theories that make the most noise
in the world are the exploded ones.
The man is playing in luck who can
stretch the truth without breaking his
word.
Some people so fresh that we al
ways feel like taking them with a grain
of salt.
Many fellow who trusts to luck event.
ually gets there, but he generally has to
walk home.
less they felt they had more happiness
than anybody else.
He-"Oh, man is simply young as
he feels. She-.Too bad he doesn't al
ways look the part
The fickleness of fortune is generally
equal to the faithfulness of misfortune.
But the wise man hustles for himself.
Many man is like an ostrich. By clos
ing his eyes to his own faults he imagines
that other people are equally blind
What lesson can we learn from the
busy beer asked the teacher. Not to
get stung." replied the boy at the foot of
the class.
NeIl-'I am nearly dead 1 had ter
rible siege of insomnia last night Belle
What caused it?' Mellon some
young idiot under my window singing,
Sleep, my lady, Sleep"