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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
THE SETBACK IN MICHIGAN.

There seems to be a tendency, espe-
cially on the part of the eastern press,
to attribute recent defeats of woman
suffrage to. the antics of Mrs. Pank-
hurst and her crowd. 1t is but a lame
excuse for the men who dislike to
surrender any share in the control of
public affairs.
The real cause of the adverse vote
in Michigan probably was the active
opposition of the liquor interests. The
reason for the alarm of the brewers
and distillers when it is proposed to
give votes to women is not apparent.
Among the nine states where equal
suffrage prevails only one, Kansas. has
a prohibitory law and that was on the
statute book when the franchise was
granted.
In Colorado where woman suffrage
was a part of the organic act, a pro-
hibitory amendment was defeated last
year by a majority approximately
10000. Are not the liquor men need
lessly alarmed?
But justice in the matter of the ball
lot is only retarded and not defeated.
Women will go on voting where they
can and holding office in many places
where they can't vote. New York,
Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Milwaukee, Washington,
Minneapolis, Columbus, Cambridge,
Denver, Grand Rapids, Fall River,
Rochester, Worcester and st. Paul all
have one or more able representative
women on their boards of education.
County school superintendent are
many of them women California has
placed them at the head of school af-
fairs in twenty counties. Colorado has
done even better with AZ. Iowa has
A woman county school superintend-
ents, Kansas 40, Nebraska AZ, New
York AZ, Kentucky 20, North Dakota
"a and South Dakota %. Many other
states have them in lesser number,
bringing up the total to 495.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
THE PEOPLE AND THE TARIFF.

The discussion of the tariff bill in
congress is not likely to disturb greatly
the mind of the average citizen. Few
persons have made a study of the
question and the majority have been
content to take their views from those
members of their own political party
who claim to know all about it.
Hence it is that generally speaking,
a man has been a protectionist because
he is Republican and not a Republican
because he is a protectionist. Or on
the other hand because he is a Demo-
crat, he has been convinced that a
tariff for revenue only, is the proper
thing. If any party had dared to advo-
cate absolute free trade, probably it
would have also attracted a consider
able following.
On one phase of the question the
people appear to have become more
nearly united than ever before, and
that is that there should be reduction
of duties. The country has had high
tariffs and higher tariffs, but no gen.
eral reduction.
1t is too much to expect, says the
Boston Traveller, that a party's tariff
policy will be in line with its tariff
promises. A Republican pledge to re-
wise the tariff did not mean what it
seemed to mean. and led to President
Taft's downfall. He accepted what was
handed to him by the tariff experts
of his party.
President Wilson is not accepting as
final a tariff bill from Democratic ex-
perts. He prepares the tariff bill or
revises it. In other words, he is the
boss, and he is on the job. The Will
son bill is now before congress. It is
not what was expected; it is not ex-
actly what was promised, but it is gen.
uine tariff revision, and it is downward.
Give the bill a fair chance after in
telligent consideration. That is the
opinion of the people, without much
regard to political affiliations. If
there are to be good times and great
glory for the Democracy in tariff re-
vision, let them have it. If there are
to be bad times and ignominy for the
Democracy in the measure now pend
ing, they will reap what the presi-
dent is sowing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

she said softly. "You know as
Wen as I that's what all of us have
to do"
You little wretch" Miss Patsy
cried. I've great mind to box your
ears-talkin' to me this way. Don't
You dare ever say another such word"
Then-I shall have to say mo-
Poor Nicholas-Joei 1t will break his
leave you-and I more than know I
won't leave my daddy" Mildred CUR
gled.
Miss Patsy sighed deeply. tiff
you chtldrenu marry we might all of
us live together" she began.
Mildred smiled mournfully. Tim
possible" she said. You see, Aunty
Pat, L want to live in town the same
as my sweetheart-if we can't, If we
must stay here and be miserable
the boys say"
81 DON'T want-anyoody-to be-
miserable" Miss Patsy said unstead-
fly:
needs the least little chance to ask
you-and I won't ever, ever tell him
of our bargain
Wont eh?" Squire Heath said
coming in through the side door.
Unseen he had listened to the col
ioquy, chuckling deeply the while.
Approaching Miss Patsy he took her
hand, and carried it gal1antly to his
lips, saying: 81 think this mad-cap
daughter of mine has a wise head af-
ter all. We old birds will be mighty
lonesome after our youngsters have
left the nest-so why not keep each
other company"
TT don't know what to say Miss
Patsy faltered. Mildred had vanish
ed. The squire took both Miss Patsys
hands, drew her close and said softly:
'Say you love me. I've loved you n
long time without knowing IT.
''I knew-all the time,' Miss Patsy
whispered, letting her hand lie in his.
Love laughs at years even more than
ocksmiths-these autumnal lovers
had faces bright enough for the
brightest May.-(Copyrighte 1918
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the philadelphia Record.


1t requires a lot of experience to be
able to write a love letter that doesn't
mean anything.
Don't trust the fellow who wants to
borrow money for breakfast with the
promise of taking you out to dinner.
Somehow the fellow who suspects every
body of being his worst enemy never
thinks of looking in the mirror.
How foolish to call the fellow who stands
up with the groom at wedding the best
man." He can't always prove it.
The worst feature about bad memory
is that it is always springing things on
US that we fondly hoped We had forgot
ten.
Sillicus-"Do you think a sensible girl
prefers a short engagement to a long
one?" Cynicus-"Sure. she can get so
many more of them in
Blobbs-"Half the people in the world
don't know when they are licked" Slobbs
And the other half get So used to It
that they don't care
Wigg-''What have you done with that
automobile that used to give you SO much
trouble?" Wagg-"I have consigned 1t II
the place that is paved with good inten-
TONS
1.-The Good Book says we should give
one-tenth of all we possess to the Lord.
said Deacon Goodleigh. "One-tenthf'
snorted old Gotrox. Let me tell you
that when my daughter married that su-
perannuated, poverty-stricken English
nobleman last year. gave one-third of all
7 had to the Lord"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

IL sometimes happen that a man can he
sworn TO tell the truth without telling IT.
hoodlurn is more dtsagreeable than
fabric.
A few men seem to think they cannot
be brave and firm and courteous at the
same time.
A certain attachment to the average
tyPeWrlter mas gotten more than one
man into trouble.
A woman with fine imagination can
easily figure out how one COW could SUM-
port the family.
Take it from this reporter, he isn't GO
ing to exercise all of his privileges. No
married man ever did.
Heaven is becoming so full of aviators
there probably isn't much room up there
for newspaper men.
In every moving picture there is some
indignant person which makes the scenes
appear very home like.
Calling attention to the shortcomings
OF others is just another way of boosting
your own virtues and practicing egotism.
mendable to a certain point, but the gent
who uses a curling iron on his moustache
passes that C. p.
If the Young Things would spend less
time in arranging their hair and more
to learning how to make good gravy
marriage-well, you know.
Hand the Red Badge of Courage to
the gent who tries to make last years
straw hat uOs uo HeouS SOLle duueu OeC-
Grafton to improve his appearance.
1.-The other day met the woman, who,
as a girl, wrecked my young life by turn
ing me down. And, seeing her, I was
much obliged for the wreck."-Rufe Hos
kins.
Don't overestimate the Importance to
the world of what you say. Platte City
is only a few miles away, but the
chances are there isn't a person in that
town who ever heard of you.
There is a political upheavel in the
Peter Out family. Pete is strong for
President Wilson because the duty on
castor OIL is to be reduced more than one
half while the Out Kids have become
Standpatters for the very same reason.
Reducing the tariff one-haf means dou-
bling the Dose" declares Peter, jr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
.AYHARKER .JOTS

Fifteen days in Jail is the standard
price of a plain drunk in Cherryvale.
The U. c. T. at Emporia are plan
ming to build an opera house. More
home talent plays.
Cy Leland's "Reminiscences" have
led to the discovery that Frank Grimes
is living in Kansas City.
Walt Mason Is sending out a tracer
for Clerin Zumwalt- He doesn't say
why he wants to find him.
The defeat of the woman ticket at
Muscotah is explained by the fact that
the names of the candidates were not
on the ballot.
The MidContinent od-Arresting
Irrigation Canal association has been
formed at Ness City. Formidable look
ing name, that.
Lincoln is to have a Carnegie library.
rms may be accounted among the
prosperity items for it costs money to
obtain libraries from Andrew.
John Macdonald calls attention to
the fact that the legislature forgot to
change the date of the annual school
meeting, thus departing from a long
established custom.
Reno county will vote on the state
fair proposition on the 22d. If YOU
don't know what that is, 1t is a plan
TO enable the stockholders in the fair
association to unload.
People In Cherryvale will do well
to refrain from getting sick on Thurs
day afternoons during the summer, as
the physicians of that town have serv-
ed notice that their offices will be
closed during that time.
Jonn Dawson and Leavenworth have
started a mutual admiration society,
Judging by the following from the
Ilmes: Attorney General Dawson's
stand for leaving the enforcement of
the proh1bitcry laws with the local Of
hcla!s Is the correct one and Will be
nIgnly commended by the majority of
me people OF Leavenworth. The at
torney general says he is satisfied
with Leavenworth county at present.
we may return the compliment. I,eav-
ehworth city at least, is satisfied with
the attorney general at present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
by THE WY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

The early spring liar is a little late
this season He usually beats the early
spring dandelion with his annual hoop
snake story.
A Virginia gent shot his wife because
he saw strange man leaving his
happy home. OF course the lady should
nave retained the visitor long enough
to effect an introduction, but it will
De held by many that her husband 8
method of teaching department was a
trifle drastic.
Quite naturally it was Representative
Raker, of California, who began the
S1xty-third congress by stirring up
something with the trusts.
We had labored under the delusion
that the civil service examination for
city dog grabber consisted merely of
test of the applicants ability to
make noise like a soup-bone but it
appears that he must also take test
in subtraction and addition. OF course
these accomplishments will come in
handy when he has to subtract a
towser from his family residence and
add same to the canine collection in
the pound.
A worlds record has been broken in
a local court. A man who was charged
by desertion was found not guilty. So
Far as one may state, without a. study
of the dockets, 1t is the first time
that any man ever escaped when
woman was the prosecuting witness.
The New York police department is
putting the double-cross on lunch
resorts by enforcing the one-o'clock
closing order. 1t takes a New Yorker
all night to eat and drink enough to do
him through the next day.
A number of people will neglect to
swat the fly because there is no one
handy to drive the fly into corner
and then hand them the swatter.
Workers in a carpet cleaning estab-
lishment can always tell where the
dresser stood-if the carpet is from a
girls bed room. 1t is just back of
the spot that is the most worn.
They let Mrs. Pankhurst ct al out of
Jail because they went on a hunger
strike. But it might strain your mem
DRY to recall any case wherein a man
was released for the same reason.
Some of the old employees at the
penitentiary had been expecting a
fire" since last election-but not that
kind,
Men talk about themselves-but Eve
was about the only woman who ever
did that; she had no neighbors.
What gets the angora of the social
set in a little town is to have some
visiting woman announce that she
came to rest up from the exhaustion
of a strenuous social season at home.
When ever a job-holder is jimn1ied
loose from his good thing, he candidly
admits that / has been abused and
that the country is going to the dick
ems by the shortest route.
Very few people have to wear smoked
glasses to protect their eyes from the
radiance of the brighter side of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
RUTH.


trembling in the summer heat
Above the nodding heads of wheat.
Too hot for tears, too hot for mirth,
he air lies hot on the hot earth.
August, a drowAy dreamer, lies,
With yesterdays deep in her eyes;
She sees, as through a quivering haze,
A field where ripened harvest swayS-
Where drowsy grain droops at the hand
OF reapers in an ancient land;
And bending lowly after them
There goes a girl of Bethlehem.
The unloosed burden of her hair
Touching the scarlet peoples there;
Too faint for song, too faint for mirth,
She deems herself of little worth;
Clothed in her meek beatitude.
Her gentle thoughts, like soft brood
OF shining doves, play round her head,
And by them is she hallowed.
Samuel Mccoy, in Harper's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
PoINTko PARAGRAPHS
[From the chicago News.

From the Cn1CdSO NeWS.J
Any change in the summer boarder
tariff?
Silence often gets the best of the argu-
ment-
Food for reflection never satisfied a
hungry man.
On can fail despite a fine line Of good
intentions.
Money is a mask that makes some vices
look like virtues.
Give a small boy a piece of chalk and
he II make his mark.
If man expectssa woman to be reason
able she thinks he issa tyrant-
No, -Cordelia. an ossified man ism
necessarily hard to get acquainted with
An open confession may be good for the
soul. but it's apt to disfigure reputa-
ton.
8AIas-when a girls complexion looks
like peaches and cream and tastes like
whitewashl
OCCASIONALLY a vain woman starts to lay
up something for a rainy day and begins
with fancy hosiery
60 to the ant, thou sluggard" MAJ
be good advice, but the modern sluggard
is more likely to go to his uncle
A Frenchman earned over 5000 last
year as an airship chauffeur Yet some
people say that a man can't 1--we on air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
The Cbampion Optimist.

We award the championship for opti-
mism to a resident of one of the rural
districts in Scotland
AS the story goes, an old man was sit
ting on the roof of his house during a
flood watching the waters flow past.
when a neighbor who possessed a boat
rowed across to him.
Hello, BILL he said.
Hello, Sam replied the other, pleas
antly.
..Ali your fowls washed away this morn
in, Bill?''
Eyes, but the ducks can swim
Apple trees gone too, eh?''
well. they said the crop would be
failure, anyhow
Il see the rivers reached above your
windows"
That's all right, Sam. Them winders
needed washin' p'-Boston Globe.
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FROM OTHER PENS
CAUSE OF THE FLOODS.


In speculating about the unknown
causes Of natural phenomena one the
orys' is quite as good as another until
it is disproved. So the explanation Of
fered by Mr.. c. L. Riker, an engineer
and meteorological, for the recent tor
nadoes in the south and west and for
the floods in Ohio and Indiana is in
tereSting.
He attributes those disturbances to
the cold Labrador current between the
coast and the warm Gulf stream, from
the surface of which rises moist,
warm air that has tendency to move
westward. It is like a great wet blan-
ket above us, until condensed by the
Labrador current or by the counter
current of air that flows from the
coast toward the Gulf stream.
The wet blanket would get as far
west as the Rockies If it's initial heat
carried it high enough to resist the
influence of the cold currents, but the
nearer the blanket is to the earth the
more 1t is affected by the wind cur
rents beneath, which cause "precipi-
tation and great or sudden changes of
barometric or atmospheric pressure;
the heavy blanket is indented or pune
tured, and this induces still greater
disturbances"
That may account for excessive
rainfall in some regions, but 1t is very
difficult for layman to understand,
without further explanation, the con-
nection between the Labrador current
and the storms that start down Texas
way. Mr.. Riker does not explain. He
believes, however, that if congress
a--d Gulf stream commission the
weather bureau will in time be able
to improve it's predictions-Boston
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

IrP NO sIrPREME COT1RT.


Use Webb bill passed over the pres
ident's veto has become law. II
will go into effect at the specified
time, and it can not be questioned un-
til some shipments of liquor have
been seized under its provisions and
the shipper has brought suit to re-
cover. If it is in Kansas, the action
Will be brought in the federal court
for the district of Kansas. me fed-
era1 Judge will uphold the law or he
will pronounce it unconstitutional 1t
makes no difference which way ne
decides, because the defeated party
will appeal to the United States su-
preme court.
Undoubtedly the case will be care
fully prearranged. The liquour inter-
ests of the country. distillers, brewers
and wholesalers will back some ship
ment into some prohibition state and
the officers at the point of entry will
seize the shipment, and the case will
be on. 1t should be arranged so as to
cover all points, because the courts
do not pass upon hypothetical cases
For the 1ayman to decide this case
would be presumption. but as congress
has many competent lawyers in its
membership, it is fair to presume
that they believe the law constitu-
tional. 1t is true that legislators
sometimes pass doubtful laws UP to
the president. but they would not
force the issue by passing such meas
ure over his veto. BY so doing they
go on record as believing their course
the honest one. So 1t is fair to say
that congress believes the law good,
and Kansas believes that the supreme
court will be sure of its logic before
1t opens forbidden territory to out
lawed imports.
That congress passed the law over
the veto is convincing evidence that
the entire country is coming over to
the Kansas view that Intoxicating IL
uuors are an evil which each state
should be permitted to handle, as 1t
handles gambling and the social evil.
Wichita Beacon.
WHERE JOBS ARE NEEDED.
The defeat of DIR. w. w. Minnick for
mayor of Wichita is another evidence OF
the municipal unrest which is well
grounded in the very nature of that city.
When the commission form of govern
ment was first adopted there ]. H. era
ham was elected mayor. defeating Or.
came SO strong in a short time tnat the
recall was used on Graham by disap-
pointed office seekers and he was recalled,
Minnick being elected. Now. only eight
cen months later, Minnick Is defeated oy
w. j. Babb and many voters were placed
in the rather ridiculous attitude OF OPP
posing Miunick as strongly as they fought
for him few months ago.
Wichita is town where city pontlcs
has been allowed to go to seed. Almost
every voter out there fmagines he Is
politician and thinks he carries MS nelgn-
borhood vote in his vest pocket. Tnere
are at least twenty-five active onice seek.
ers for every municipal job and there Will
the commission can devise some system or
creating more Jobs. This is the only nope
any mayor there can have of serving out
his allotted term. -Independence Reporter.
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HU74oR or THE D<Y

Perhaps you drink too much Coffee
suggested the doctor. II should advise
is superfIuous." reniied the ,s y1Is IT
have lived in boarding houses for twenty
five years."-Phi1adelphi Record.
Bessie-Did you scream when he tried
to kiss you? Jessie-No; there Is a poor
man across the street who is dreadfu1ly
sick.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
sue-Here is the postrnan with another
sweet missive from Charlie. Marie-what
does Charlie say? sue-It wasn't from
dozen eggs.-Indianapolis Star. 90
CONSCIENCE is what tells a man when
he is doing wrong" That may be true
in your family replied Mr. Meekton,
but my wtfe's name is Henrietta. -
washington Star.
Belated Sportsman CARRYING as hounds
are moving or after breaking up their
foxeIve seen your hunted fox; he's be-
hunted fox Is inside my 'ounds, SIR
Punch.
replied Mrs. Cayenne II ike to see PEG
pie happy. and hope that when women
Judge at Reno."-washingto Star.
why does Pidgin look SO woe-begone?"
His best girl told him she adored Maurice
dangerous rival in town."-Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Critic-By George. old chap. when I
look at one of your paintings stand and
wonder Artist-How I do IT? Critic
No, why you do itI-Independent.
waiter-And how did you find the beef.
sir? Customer-Ohi moved a potato,
and there it was.-Boston Transcript.
Have you been uplifted?'' ''To some
extent" replied Mr.. Corntossel. I'm get
tin SO it comes almost natural to say
agriculture instead o. farmin'. wash
ington ST.
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whose chief promoters had other men
in mind when they began their work.
Above all, the Republican platform
of 1856 was a model of dignified sim
plicity, in vivid contrast with the om-
nium-gatherum quality of the Progress
with the overloaded and diffusive
platforms on which the older party
has placed some of its candidates in
recent years.
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stitute of Agriculture are the best
known. Recent Investigations by the
Union of International Associations of
Brussels, which will hold it's second
congress next June, indicate that the
administrative work intrusted by the
governments to International organ
izations costs at least 81, 00o, 900 to main
tain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

California appears to be playing a
confidence game on the remainder of
the country. After inducing a number
of states to make appropriations for
the erection of buildings at her Pan
anna exposition, she lets it be known
that she cannot have one of her own
because she is broke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

The nations of the world are getting
together in so many ways that it no
longer seems impossible. that they
should even agree. on disarmament.
There are nearly so international or
Ranizations supported by the govern
ments at present. The Universal.
Postal Union and the International In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

One of the English suffra gists in
prison is trying to catch pneumonia
But if they are really in search of
hardship, why don't they go on a talk
strike?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

Colonel Roosevelt at least ought to
do something to prevent the Ananias
club from continuing in the decline
If has entered upon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

AT last the real cause of the suf-
frage disturbance in England has been
discovered. The men of London are
wearing aigrettes in their hats.