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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Most people consider the thermometer
conservative.
There are enough other causes So We
never worry because oratory is on the de-
cline.
A milkman is curious to know how it
comes that women are referred to as the
After the days work is DONE it doesn't
| look like much in looking back at it,
! does it?
woman's idea of a capable man is
one who can sharpen the scissors, which
| usually need it.
,.le rule is that anyone VINO likes cot
says it hurts 'em.
Father infers he is called the Man OF
the House because he works there when
not busy down town.
| In homes where coal oil lamps are used
the example of the foolish virgin is fol-
| lowed a good deal.
man doesn't think woman is Pin
| ing Away when she signs; he thinks her
corset is too tight.
While his wife is making the living judo
| johnson is tracing his ancestors through
nine generations.
Jude Johnson gets smart: "Talkative
women are the most popular because
there aren't any other kind"
| So far as ur acquaintance extends, no
man every stayed home long enough to
wear out an easy chair.
! When a woman says proudly of her new
| hat: 81 trimmed it some mean thing al
ways says softly: 1T looks like it.
| Soon be time for the o. f. woman to
| dope the kids with sassafras tea. ((Busi-
ness of sorting out fishing tackle.)
We trust our pioneer ancestors called
/ their work of winning the wilderness
! sport, they could enjoy the hardships.
There is seldom a vacancy in the list CT
| lodge officers, and the people are hard to
understand in several other respects.
BY the time a man hunts a different
climate in hopes of improving his health
| he is cutting out large job for the
climate.
a clock that is not running is right at
! least once every twenty-hOurs which re-
/ calls to our mind that Jude Johnson who
! is always crying out Clarion Notes, has
| never been right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
AYHAWKER JOTS

The Olat-4e band has new uniforms
and is now ready for the summer cam
paign.
The reform wave has struck Emporia
Street carniVals are to be barred from
the town.
As a storm center, says the Hutchin-
son News, Kansas can easily point to
a dozen states this spring, which have
beaten anything this state has ever
known.
The Great Bend Commercial club
proposed to put a big electric sign at
the depot to advertise the town, and the
electric light company of that town Of
fered to furnish the Juice" free OF
charge. This is sort of cooperation
that is worth while.
The Lawrence Journals idea of the
"cubist" in art is expressed as fol-
lows: "A lady called up this office to
know what CubiSt was in art. We have
been reading about this considerable OF
late but have been unable to learn. 1t
is some sort of a daub which is put
upon canvas and then the painter runs
his bony fingers through his hair and
the hairs that come out are thrown on
the canvas for realistic effect. Cubist
is the cyclone captured and concentrat-
ed on canvas and our idea is that
one is about as artistic as another.
A Cowley county man is entitled to
be called the champion corn grower.
He sent 100 grains of corn to the State
Agricultural college for a termination
test. Every one of the 100 grains grew.
The fellows who live along the Kaw
river from Kansas City to Manhattan
are logging the Golden Belt Road. The
New Santa f. trail through Ottawa
has not only been logged for several
years but it was travelled more in the
past year than the Golden Belt will
probably be Travelled in the next three
years. The fallacy in logging a poor
road can only be seen after comparing
the road with a really good one.-Ot-
tawa Herald. 1t is the best road we
have up here. What does the Herald
want?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
EVENING CHIT
Old Maids and Superciliousness.
BIZ RUTH CAXxERoN.

Old Maids and Superciliousness.
Several times in these columns 1 have
taken the liberty to defend that class
of the feminine population Familiarity
know as old maids.
l have pointed out that the circum-
stance that she has not met her mate
is nothing for a woman to be ashamed
of, and that the fact that a woman
lavishes her affection on dumb animals
does not prove that she wouldn't have
preferred children if she might have
had Them
Many sof the brightest, finest and
most intelligent women L know be-
long to the ranks of the unmarried.
Unmarried women seem to have al
most a corner on the feminine sense
of humor. Unmarried women, a
rule, are far more companionable than
their sisters. In short, 1 approve of
the genus bachelor-gir1 with all my
heart, except-and thereby hangs my
whole tale-except when they take on
that peculiarly sniffy and superior air
that some old maids acquire.
The expression appears first around
the mouth. What was originally an
expression of sweetness and purity,
hardenS into primness, and that in turn
into an air of superciliousness.
1 should advise every unmarried wo-
man over 25 to carefully study her face
in the mirror in order to make sure
that no such unpleasant thing is hap
pening to her mouth.
This type develops mostly in the in
tellectual class, because it is a life
which exalts the intellectual and de-
precates the physical, which fosters it.
Its members seem to look down upon
their married friends as upon people
who have made an unfortunate mis-
take, or yielded to an unfortunate
weakness.
If marriage happens to bring to her
friends a temporary sacrifice of some
of the luxuries which the bachelor
girl can still enjoy3 she is blatantly
plying.
And when the promise of motherhood
comes to her married friend, this un-
pleasant type of bachelor-girl usually
acts as if tragedy had happened.
Now there is nothing to be ashamed
of in being unmarried.
But neither is there anything to be
supercilious about
And when bachelor-girl gets into
the frame of mind in which she looks
down upon all her married friends she
can know she's got astigmatism of the
heart.
That splendid class of cheerful alert.
intelligent, unmarried women, who are
good companions for themselves and
everyone else, and who are making
''cld maids a term of honor, don't have
this supercilious viewpoint at all. They
know that there are advantages in be-
ing unmarried and advantages in be-
ing married, and they don't feel
obliged to disfigure their faces with a
supercilious expression to prove that
the advantages on their side are the
greater.
My advice to any girl who has de-
cided to be a bachelor-girl is to take
one of this latter class for a model,
and one of the former for a terrible
warming and try to mould herself ac-
cordingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

peror, Baldwin, was defeated and SUD-
sequently put to death by the Bull
garian Gar Kaloyan, but the Mohanl-
medans under Murad II, took the city
by storm in 1861, and it eventually be-
came the Turkish capital until the fall
of Constantinople in 1853. The place
is interesting from its situation as well
as for it's history.
A great fire in 1905 burned down the
greater part of the northeastern quar-
ter of the city, most of which has but
newly been rebuilt, on a much more
spacious plan. The great colonnaded
Ali Pasha bazaars are the pride of the
inhabitants. The inhabitants are
classified by the Ottoman statistics as
follows: Turks, 4O,437; Greeks and
Bulgarians, %. 342; Jews, 15.416; Armeni-
ans, 1920; Catholics, 500; total, $500.
For many years the city has had
very large garrison, varying from 4O,OGO
to $4,000 soldiers, as being the nearest
important city to the Bulgarian 'front.'
Ter. 1t was here that in 1929 the Rus
slams, having captured the city, made
treaty with the Turks and gave them
back the town unframed. 1t was
here that in 1873 the armistice was
signed that closed the Russo-Turkish
campaign of that year. 1t was near
here that Rev. w. w. Merriam, of the
American board, was murdered by rob-
bers in 1862.
Adrianople, called by the Turks
Edrine, is the center of a fertile anu
productive legion watered by the
turbulent Martha river, with it's tribu-
taries the Toundja and Adra. 1t ex-
ported considerable raw silk, opium,
altar OF roses, and wines. After the
war of 1878 it lost to other cities much
of its commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
says UNCLE CIV

The man who plays with his job is
bound for the breakers. The task
that isn't big enough to demand the
pest that is in you isn't the one you
should be working at. If you are sure
that you have found out all there is
to know about your employment it's
high time you were finding better and
more profitable occupation. The
chances are, however, that the job
that you believe you can whip with
one hand" seems small only because
you haven't got to the bottom of it.
When you believe that you are run
ming your job without difficulty the
job is really running you. You're
drifting around on top of 1.-THE toy
of every gust-when your anchor
should be clutching the bottom. It's
only a. matter of time until an unex-
pected heavy sea will smash you. You
trolls you. No two men who ever
struggled for mastery were more def
nitely pitted against each other than
you and your task. 1t is your servant
or your antagonist, and when you
play with it you play with danger. Be
fore long it will have the upper hand,
and if you remain on the pay roll
you'll have to break the speed records
to keep up with the demands of the
job that you thought too easy to claim
serious attention.
If you are one of those who are
wont to regard their tasks as snaps
1t is we'll for you to remember that
we do few things perfectly. In every
task to which the human brain or
hand has been set there is room for
vast Improvement. The race had been
digging bitches for some uncounted
thousands of years before it essayed
the Panama canal, and if the United
States ever digs another ditch of that
size it will do the job quicker and bet
ter. It's a far cry from the laborer
who eXcavates his ditch willy-nilly to
the engineering genius who drew the
plans for the canal, but there is no
greater difference between these two
than between the man who does any
other ordinary thing in the ordinary
way and him that is to come to make
simplest thing you do is capable of
development into one of the wonders
of the world. And yet you loaf on
the job" and laugh at your SNAP"
But the work you toy with sooner
or later toys with you. You'd better
fight an army than that composite
monster you call Circumstances.
The man who is wideawake and
close on the heels of his work never
too intimate and his control too secure
to permit him to deal in vague gener-
alities He knows that this thing or
that thing gives him trouble, but he
never permits himself to become so
hopeleSsly confused and so dazed1y
ignorant of his true situation that he
cannot give each difficulty its right
name. Circumstances is the name of
the ogre that finally devours the man
who plays with his job 1t has no
place in the life of him who keeps
busy enough to know the details of
his problem.-(Co 1913, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
quaker sIEDI rATTONs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record
A plain duty and a plain girl have few
woOers.
Consistency is jewel. but no girl wears
1t on her engagement finger.
Sillicus-t'What is the best way to get
a girl to marry you?" Cynicus-"Try not
to-
If people would only work as hard as
they worry they wouldn't have any time
to worry.
Come early to avoid the rush and you'll
find that everyone else has done the same
thing
Success not only depends upon making
the best of ourselves, but upon getting the
better of others.
Many man who is banking on man
with a four-room celestial flat
Wigg-''He seems profound, and yet he
is really so superficial" Wagg-"In otne
words, he is shallow, even when he is
buried in thought"
Don't you ever have any special sales?"
asked Mrs. Bargainhunter. Sure re-
Piled the druggist Just now am SELL
ing OUT my entire stock of postage stamps
at cost
we live and learn quoted the Wise
Guy. Yes. until are about 40, and
then we begin TO live and unlearn,'' sup
plemented the Simple Mug.
A woman is a paradox.
You play her just on form,
For instance, it's the one who lair
That takes tha men by storm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
BREAKING A DEADLOCK.

The long senatorial deadlock in the
Illinois legislature has ended in the
election of James Hamilton Lewis for
the long term and L. Y. Sherman for
the short term, in accordance with the
choice of the people as expressed at
the primaries.
Probably a situation similar to the
one which has prevailed at Spring
field for several weeks never will be
known again. The affirmative votes of
but three states are now required to
ratify the amendment to the federal
constitution, providing for popular
elections of United States senators in
all states. There will then be no more
deadlocks no more bribery, no more
log rolling, no more scandal.
The final outcome in Illinois probably
is due to the influence of William j.
BRYAN. who has again demonstrated his
ability as a leader of men. On his trip
home to celebrate his birthday, he
stopped off at the Illinois capital and
made a speech to the legislators.
There was little in his remarks cal
culated to affect the political situation
but it is noticeable that solution of the
senatorial problem followed quickly.
Mr. Bryan makes presidents and SEN
ators but he has never been able to
boost himself into the White House and
nrobablv never can do so. He seems
destined to remain in a class with Gay
opd blaine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
THE FALL OF ADRIANOPLE.

AdrianopIe has fallen and with its
surrender probably goes the last
vestige of the Turks power in Europe
If marks the end of one of the fiercest
of modern wars. There is nothing
more to fight for and the sultan must
accept such terms of peace as he can
get.
That he has held out so long may
have been due to hope of interference
hy the big powers of Europe. which
have hitherto apparently desired the
maintenance of the Moslem empire's
integrity. But whatever taeyir wishes
they could not risk a quarrel among
themselves, so nothing effectual was
done and the combatants were per-
mitted to fight it out to an end that
all must have foreseen.
Adrianople is an ancient city built
on the site of a Thracian town by the
Emperor Hadrian early in the second
century of our era 1t was here that
Constantine defeated his rival Licinius
in 32S. In 1905 the crusader and en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
TO TOPEKA.

-.
Out of the cruel and dusty mart
Tired in body, mind and heart,
Far across the windswept plain,
A stranger to your land l came
Winter was gone but the air was cold.
Dandelions starred the grass with gold;
Round the tree tops tipped with tender
est green
The Kansas wind blew swift and keen
I'm glad came to this western town
For peace and quiet out here 1 found
Out where there's plenty of room to grow
Out where the sweet cool breezeS blow
Where they blow out the false and blow
in the true,
Blow all the nonsense out of you;
Blow all the cobwebs out of your brain
Blow out the sorrow and blow out the
pain.
Sing no for the land where the swift
winds blow
Sing no for the land where the cotton
woods grow,
Sending their white fuzz drifting down,
Drifting and floating all over the town.
Title Monroe Pope, 1913 Topeka Ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

After we are married 1 will tell
you all about the unpleasant duty I
had to perform aad that which was
the cause of your giving this back to
me-
Diana looked deep into Toms eyes
and a soft little smile crept into her
own.
Perhaps I will not even hsten,"
she said, because 1 was entirely in
the wrong and could not doubt you
if I tried. Does that make up for
the year L have robbed US both of?'
she asked, trifle wistfully.
Yes, dear" he said, that and a
promise to love and obey spoken in
the next week or So He only
smiled when Diana blushed. )-(Copy-
right, 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
Bale wAGGENER.

/ 1t has been settled definitely that
Bale Waggener of Atchison will be a
candidate for United States senator
next year-surgeons permitting. And
as the surgeons report the veteran vote
grabber in excellent condition, and as
he has gained in health and weight
during the strenuous session of the
| legislature just past other candidates
may as we'll make their arrangements
to meet one of the hitherto invincible
politicians Of Kansas.
There is something about Bale
Waggener that is hard to describe,
but gets results without effort. He is
not a whirlwind campaigner. In fact,
he is about the poorest hand to ask
for personal favors that ever faced a
collection of voters. But they couldn't
| beat him while he was flat on his back
with eminent surgeons taking his
temperature-and a major portion of
his income. He has a wonderful rec
ord in politics. There are but two
spaces for each state in the National
Hall of Fame, and Bale Waggener
filled both of them. First came his
personal friend and political enemy,
ingalls,. The statue of ingalls, was put
| in the National Hall at Bale Wag-
gener's demand, at a time when he
was on the wrong side of prevailing
politics. During the last session he
forced through a resolution to fill the
other space with a statue of ex-GoV-
ernor Click. No man in the United
| States has equaled or ever will dupli-
cate that record.
Last year, Bale Waggener returned
from a third or fourth visit to hos
pital where surgeons whiled away the
time by looking over his diverticulus,
and opening him without prayer. He
landed in Atchison a sick man, &C
companied by nurses, and was pre-
scented with a seven-pound document
which looked like a roll of carpet, and
bore this heading in print:
''To Hon. B. P. Waggener: We, the
undersigned citizens of the city and
county of Atchison, Republicans and
Democrats, appreciating your loyal
services to our people, and your large
interest in our county, earnestly ask
you to become a candidate for state
senator at the next election; and if
you will consent, will pledge you our
votes and our support, regardless of
the ticket on which you run. You
need not make a campaign. We will
make it for you"
Very little has been printed about
the document that was presented I'M
der the above heading. 1t was back
ed with muslin to keep it intact, and
when rolled, was over foot in dame
ter. 1t contained the names of 4,311
voters of Atchison county, SOB of
them Republicans and Progressives,
and the rest Democrats. Bale Wag-
gener came back to the Kansas state
senate without a campaign, and with
a majority of 2,440. He was opposed
by a good ma nwho is highly respect
ed in that district.
About the only moral to be CLEANED
from this is that no one could beat
him in his own district with a club or
brass knucks. There is something
about his kindly nature, forgiving
spirit and general good will toward
the whole human race that makes
him invincible there and makes him
a political favorite in the whole state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

The proprietor of our ice cream
sody water fountain ran out of ice
cream cones one day last week and
substituted a lot of left over red and
blue Christmas tree cornucopias. Sew
eral in our midst which ate the corn
ucopiaS without knowing the differ
ence said they was good cones, but
Elmer Jones ate nine of 'em hand
running and is now having an attack
of indyspepsia. A Teller kin get too
much of a good thing.
Rev. Hudnutt is putting hair re-
storer on the church carpet and ex-
poets all the bald spots will be COW
cred by spring. The seven Sutherland
Sisters amt got nothing on Miss Amy
Stubs in regard to hair. When Miss
Stubs unloosens her hair it falls to
the floor
There was an ad in the Clarion last
week which said that the Teller which
stole the umbreller at the meetin'
house the previous Sunday had better
return it to the Clarion office at once
or be prosecuted. Next mornin there
was fifteen cords of umbrellas in the
editors back yard. 1t pays to adj
vertise.
There was quite a sensational
game of funk in the back room of the
drug store one night this week. Three
grindstones, one corn husker, two
spring tooth drags, one churn ana
seven wheel barrows changed hands.
I have heard of fellerS willing their
Deacon Pringle of this town has broke
the record. He likes music so well he
has willed his diaphragm to the Silver
Cornet band for a snare drum head.
About the most aggravatin thing
that can happen to a woman is to fall
and cut her cheek and then have the
doctor sew her mouth up by mistake.
Amariah TiIson, the humorist down
to the barber shop. says the last Tune
he was down to the city he had a
chance to go to a funeral and took 1t
in, a splendid time being had Am
says he didn't learn the name of the
deceased as he only went for the ride
Hold Peters sent to a furniture FAC
tory for ice box to keep the ice in
but he got fooled He says the Ice
don't keep in the box at all. He put
chunk in last Tuesday and WedneS-
day morning it was all melted. FL
mer Jones has got the hives and now
Miss Amy Stubs, our milliner, calls
him her honey boy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

Prof T. n. Carver of the department
of economics of Harvard suggests:
LET there be a law to stop man s
marrying until he commands a mini
mum wage of, say, So a day, and you
will see a great change in the COM
plexion of economies" After that let
there be another law compelling en-
ployers to pay wages of not less than
So a day and the whole problem is
solved. Why leave anything to ma
ture and common sense when every
thing can be arranged by legal en-
actment? What are legislatures for,
ANYWAY?
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ed but 4,7O9,047 pounds. against 49,
SO6.649 pounds in the corresponding
months of 1907. That this shortage
in the expectations is due in part at
least to an actual reduction in the
number of cattle in the United States
is evidenced by the fact that the to-
tai number of cattle on farms, ac-
cording to figures of the department
of agriculture was on January L, 1918.
but 56,527,00O, against 72,534. 900 on
January 1, 1907.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
CFrom the Chicago News.I


Being a young widow gets monotonous.
1t never rains happiness but we want it
to pour.
Two better halves are apt to make lot
of trouble
The hot air treatment for difficulties is
seldom efficacious.
Happy is the young man who loses the
first time he CANDLES.
Some women are easily pleased-judging
by the husbands they select
If it wasn't for suckers the financial
sharks would soon starve to death.
Honesty is sort of boomerang, with a
delightful habit of coming home to roost.
No woman can be very friendly with
any other woman whom her husband was
ever engaged to.
A woman who looks as though she was
staggering around under a burden Of Sc
cret sorrow is sure to turn it loose.