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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
EVENING CHAT
On Arguing.
III RUTA CAMMRoN.

| L love an argument. Like the un-
forgettable Sarah Battle, can wish fol
nothing better of a winter evening thai
| "a clean fire, a clean heart, and the
rigor of the game" Only in my wish
the game should not be cards, but that
infinitely more fascinating game of wits
known as argument.
| I think children should be taught tC
argue, and classes of logic should be
held in our grammar schools instead OF
being confined to the last two years OF
a college course. For there is no de-
feet more strikingly common among
people of moderate education than the
lack of ability to reason clearly and TIC
keep to the point.
All of which, by the way, is beside
the point I started to make, so I am
hoist with my own petard.
What I started to say was that love
an argument as well as any man or
woman, but think that a great many
of the arguments in which we indulge
are absurd and useless.
For instance, a great many of the
arguments in which We indulge are alb
surd and useless.
For instance, great many argu-
ments arise simply because the two
parties do not define in the same way
the words and phrases which they use.
Recourse to the dictionary would nip
a large proportion of arguments right
in the bud.
Take for example the celebrated argu-
ment upon which most of us have
wrangled-if a tree falls in the center
Of a forest, miles away from any hui
man being, does it make a sound or
not? 1 have heard two people argue
a half hour on that, and yet 1T is not
a matter to be settled by expressions
of opinions and arguments at all. 1t
is simply a question as to the definition
of sound. Apply to old Noah Webster
and he will settle it in thirty seconds.
Again arguments between people of
opposite temperaments on matters
which are simply questions of opinion
are decidedly futile.
For a passionate, radical and dyed
in the wool conservative to argue upon
some question which is simply a matter
of opinion. is futile on the face of it,
and yet how many people waste time
and temper that way. Make up your
mind before engaging in an argument
whether your opponent is of an antago-
nistic temperament. II he is, you may
argue questions of fact, but not of
opinion and theory.
Again, I hate an argument where
either one argues just for the sake of
talking has no convictions, doesn't
really know his facts, would say any
thing, however, false he knew it to be,
for the sake of helping his argument.
and would just as lief have taken the
other side as not / think now that I
regret calling argument a game, for.
that implies that one should argue to
win. On the contrary. any fair-minded
man argues for the sake of getting at
the truth, and the man who argues
simply to win is showing a good broad
streak of yellow.
It is good to know how to argue, it is
better to know when to argue. 1t is
good to know how to win an argument,
it is far better to know how to lose one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
RoMANoFF RULE.

Russia has Just celebrated the COM
pletfon of three centuries of Roman
off rule over the great Slavic empire
1t was three hundred years ago that
the first prince of the house became
the sovereign of the Russian people.
then a comparatively small and weak
as we'll as backward nation.
Even in America, this period does
not seem impressively long. The first
settlements were made in Virginia a
little longer ago. New York is almost
as old as the Romanoff dynasty.
Massachusetts will complete three
centuries less than nine years from
now. Columbus had discovered Amer
lea 121 years when the reigning fam
lily of Russia gained royal power.
The truth is that Russia is still, in
many respects, young and crude. 1t
is largely a land of frontier conditions,
not only-in Asia but in some parts of
the European dominions of the cars
1t is a commonplace that Russian re-
sources remain in large measure un-
explored, not to say unimproved, and
there are vast possibilities of change
in the whole Russian empire.
But this is not the work of the Ro-
manoffs. That family has given the
Muscovite nation several strong rulers
and two or three have been remark
ably endowed with the great gift
rarely vouchsafed to despots, of per-
ceiving and acting upon the national
need of development along unusual
lines. On the other hand many OF
the Romanoff princes have been
weak, dissoIute, wasteful, tyrannical
and reactionary in the extreme. They
have written many black pages OF
their country's history, and although
the blood of the reigning house is now
almost wholly German, through many
marriages, they have been typically
Russian in spirit and methods. It is
a trite saying that Russia, in govern
ment as well as in numerous customs
is half oriental.
The first of the Romanoff emperors
was elected by the mobiles and chief
tains of his country. The last of the
line, whether the reigning car OF
some successor, will doubtless be
driven from power not by the nobility
and gentry of the empire, but by the
people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
THEY WILL NOT SEE.

The provincia1ism of the east and
especially of New York has been re-
marked frequently but probably II
never was more aptly displayed than
in the following editorial paragraph in
the New York Tribune:
A Kansas Agricultural college pro-
fessor thinks that the farmers of that
state ought to play baseball, since the
game would teach them to think
quickly. But don't they catch enough
hot liners" off the bat of the Hon.
William Roscoe Stubs to be always on
the jump mentally?
Whatever may be said or thought of
Governor Stubs, he was generally
in the lime light during his service as
the chief executive of Kansas and
there appears to be no reasonable ex-
cuse for calling him William
If the Tribune would come out of
its shell long enough to take a little
look around it would learn also that
Mr.. Stubs is no longer governor OF
Kansas as it seems to believe him to
be.
New Workers are able to see little
that is going on beyond the confines of
their little old town. But what can
be expected of a place where they still
operate horse cars?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14

Chief Engineer of Santa Fe
Goes to Rock Island.
Announcement Leaked Out in
Topeka Today.

G. A. Morse, chief engineer of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway,
and one of the leading authorities in
railway engineering work of the Uni
ted states, has resigned his position in
topeka and has accepted the head of
the engineering activities of the Rock
Island Lines with headquarters in
chicago Effective the first of April.
MI. Morse will be chief engineer of
the Rock Island Lines, vice ]. B. Perry
VINO has been given other duties
rms announcement came as a COM
plete surprise in railway circles in
Topeka today. Chief Engineer Morse
mas been with the Santa Fe for the
last u years and has achieved a ma
tional reputation in his line of duty.
In the last two years he has received
natterlng offers from large engineering
concerns in this and other countries
and it has been feared for some time
that he would be lost to the Santa Fe.
1t is understood that the offer of the
Rock Island was far in excess of the
inducements of the Santa Fe.
c. A. Morse entered the service of
the Santa Fe in 1886 in the construc-
ton department. In 1890 he was
made assistant engineer. Later he
was appointed principal assistant en-
gineer. From this position he was
appointed principal engineer and in
1903 was sent to Topeka as engineer
of the eaStern lines of the Santa Fe.
Three years later he was appointed
chief engineer of the A. T. & S. F.
proper and later was made acting
chief engineer of the coast lines with
headquarters in Los Angeles.
A few months later he returned to
Topeka as assistant chief engineer of
the system and in 1909 was appointed
to the head of the engineering depart
ment as chief engineer of the entire
Santa Fee lines.
gineering department of the Santa Fe.
He is known in every section of the
country and has been factor in the
upbuilding of the Santa Fe in this
western country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
9UAKER MEDIEATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Perhaps the surest things in life
are the expenses we hadn't counted
on.
The fellow who turns tail must ex-
pect to be talked about behind his
back.
Every tree needs an occasional
pruning. and even the family tree is
not exempt.
When a girl is having her picture
taken it is unnatural for her to look
natural.
1t sometimes takes a pretty wise
man to fully realize what a fool he
really is.
All the worlds a stage, and some
people are satisfied to be understudies
all their lives.
The one thing in the world that IS
pretty sure to get on your nerves IS
the nerve of other people.
It is quite possible for a man to
speculate in wheat without having q
grain of common sense.
Rollingstone Nomoss-'Dey say dat
labor is ennobling.' Lilyfield Toilnot
-''Mebbee, but I'm agin de nobility"
Silence is golden quoted the Wise
Guy. Yes, but the trouble is you
can so seldom convert it into cash, -
objected the Simple Mug.
Sillicus-"Just think what we might
do with all the money we have spent
foolishIy in our lives Cynicus-'Ye
dare say we could find even more
foolish ways of spending it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
A TRAVELLING HOSPITAL.

The modern tendency to carry the ad-
vantages and conveniences of the city
| into the country has invaded the med
| zeal profession and a hospital train for
the rural district has been suggested.
D. c. w. Stiles has made some OBJ
servations on this subject as part of
| his work with the Hookworm Commits
sion. He finds large numbers of chill
dren who are handicapped in their
physical and mental development by
large tonsfls and adenoids, and by de-
fective eyes and teeth. He says. more
over, that the average country woman
with whom he comes in contact has
exceedingly rudimentary ideas on cook
ing, housekeeping and care of children
and the sick. and to meet the needs of
this side of the problem the district
nurse would be invaluable.
The remedy which he proposes for
these evils Is a travelling hospital,
equipped for the minor surgical work
on children. He believes that it would
be a comparatively simple matter to fit
out a special hospital train Of from
three to six cars and take it to dis
tricts without hospitals. The diff
culties to be overcome in establishing
these trains are not insurmountable.
and the expense need not be greater
than that connected with any other
hospital.
The travelling hospital could also be
utilized to bring about such results as
much-needed postgraduate medical in
struction to local physicians; ideas on
cooking, housekeeping, infant-feeding,
etc, to mothers; ideas on sanitation
to the fathers. and special instruction
along health lines to the schools. Stiles
believes that this work is more i'm
portant than the teaching of the farm
ers by special school trains how to in
crease their crops or how to take care
of their live stock The Journal of the
American Medical Association, COM
menting on Stiles experience, says that
the suggestion is the more valuable
coming from Stiles, as he has had prac-
teal experience on laboratory trains in
the rural districts in which research
and observations were conducted on
school children. This has shown him
the need, the probability and the
possibilities of such a hospital train as
he suggests =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
STILL ON WARPATH.
Depredations of London Suffragists
Continue to Harass Police.

London, March A.-The latest exploit
of the militant suffragettes in London is
the obliteration of the names on the gate
posts of houses in the residential streets.
Armed with pots of tar and brushes, they
raided the Richmond district early today,
disfigurfng many houses.
London houses are distinguished solely
by names numbers not being used. The
suffrag ettes' acts makes the Identification
of a particular house impossible and is
sure to cause extensive annoyance.
The window-smashing campaign was re-
sumed in the jewelers. district in Bond
street and in Holesborn. The police ar
rested several women. Miss olive
Hokcen, arrested yesterday for attempt
ing to set fire to a pavilion in Rochhamp-
ton golf links, was released today on bail
she signed an agreement to abstain from
mflitancy pending her trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
1t was large and pink and

specimen. 1t was large and pink and
fra grant
There is only one other more per
feet than you" she whispered to the
L VIII lose Rosevale.'' She turned sad
ly from the exquisite bloom over which
she and Danny had spent many hours
John Lane stood beside her. He had
watched her unobserved.
You care so much?" he questioned
Sylvia.
More than you have any idea of, "
she told him with a smile that tried to
hide her emotion. MY horticultural
pride has suffered. Your rose would
take dozen prizes.''
Yours would take first-if it were not
for mine, and yet tried to infuse some
of my gardeners magic into these, he
took her slim fingers within his own
and waited for her to look up at him.
Sylvia" he said, there is only one
person to whom I will give my rose,
but must ask for a great big return
Sylvia's blush answered him and the
light swept into John Lanes eyes.
IF you promise to marry me soon
very soon you may exhibit my rose
and win the wager with your father.
How do you feel about it?" He spoke
lightly but words we're not necessary
to tell Sylvia how greatly he loved her.
I'VE could live among the roses-al-
ways" he persuaded.
IF it were soon-very, very. soon,
the girl said shyly, you could win your
wager with Gimkins and would still
be taking first price She looked into
his eyes. ''You1 wife would really be
you and my husband would really be
me-isn't that right?
John Lane could only take her in his
arms. After a moment he said:
1--WE will go for a special license,
bring back minister and be mar
ried herewith roses for witnesses
he told her.
Was it the petals of rose that
brushed against his ips?-(Copyright,
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper 'yn-
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago News
Only the man who is failure
sneers at success.
Playing the fool is not likely to be-
come a lost art.
The palmist is ever ready to grasp
the hand of fortune.
A chronic borrower usually keeps
everything but his word.
After falling in love the average
young man drops into poetry.
All women are stuck up-judging
by the number of pins they use.
More investigation at the start will
mean less disappointment at the end
Should an original idea strike some
men it would give them headache
A lazy mans feet leave their i'm
print on the path of least resistance.
You can live comfortably without
being extravaganza. Extravaganza is
not comfort.
Don't worry about what the other
fellow is going to do. Let your su-
perior activities worry him.
A woman says the way to reach a
mans heart may be through his stom-
ach, but it may take cunning or brute
strength to reach his pocketbook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
HUAOR OF THE Day

Webb-The doctors say whisky kills
more men than wars. Foote-Away
with that gaff! I'd rather be full of
whisky any time than bullets.-Louis-
vile Times.
Yes, smoking is an expensive habit.
When one gives his friends cigars all
the year round his loss is no little one"
do you mean in cigars or in friends?'
-Ulk.
ct understand you went over to
Crimson Gulch and Iynched the wrong
man, mo- replied Three-finger
Sam. You can't lynch the wrong man
in Crimson Gulch. We jest got Piute
Pete a little bit ahead of his turn
Washington Star.
Hub with newspaper)-Listent to this,
wiley: For every missionary sent
sent 1,495 gallons of liquor WHEY
Merciful goodness. Who'd ever think
missionaries were such drinkers ?-Bos-
ton Transcript.
when try to talk to you, Maudie,"
faltered Algy, my heart comes up into
my MOUTH That shows how little
you know of anatomy" said the love-
ly girl. TT isn't your heart, Algy:
it's your diaphragm. "-Chicago Tri-
bune.
What did your cousin put into the
capital stock of his new firm?" Moth
ing. "Nothingi'' Didn't have to-
It's a vacuum business. Baltimore
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
BASIS OF TOLERANCE.

BASIS OF TOLERANCE.
Old Obadiah Grupp is dead.
Yes, dead, and buried yesterday;
AS mean a man as ever walked
Upon, or rests beneath, the clay,
His evil fame spread far and wide,
So churlish was his daily life;
But, though he lived to eighty years,
With him I never was at strife.
He vented on my politics
The wordy venom of his tongue;
And at the doctrines of my church
His choicest maledictions flung.
But, still, where some grew wild enough
To tear him madly limb from limb,
kept serenely to my way,
And never had a word with him.
Yes, some would quite insanely rave
At just the mention of his name;
They fought back hard; but would say.
Come, let his conscience cry MIN
shame"
claim no virtue through the act,
To praise my course there is no can;
He lived at such a distance that
I never knew the man at ALI
Denver Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14

ing. You are honored by all who
know you. Your life has been happy
one, unless I am greatly mistaken
There are few people who can at your
age look back with as little to regret
as there is in your past to deplore.
Your life has not been a failure. 1t
has been a splendid success. Here
you are, able to leave an honestly &C
quired fortune to your family, ana at
the same time you are making public
bequests that will relieve hundreds or
people who are in distress
Eyes, that's all very true; but L
have never been called the Napoleon
or the Nestor or even the dean or any
thing. Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14

Further competition with the ex-
press companies on the part of the
United States postal service is indi-
Gated in an order of the postmaster
general amending the parcel post
regulations of the United States which
makes possible the collection on de-
livery of payment for goods sent by
parcel post. The provisions of the
new order, which is to take effect
July L. 1918, are as follows: Section
Sc. The sender of a mailable parcel
on which the postage is fully prepaid
may have the price of the article and
the charges thereon collected from the
addressee on payment of fee of 10
cents in parcel post stamps affixed,
provided the amount to be collected
does not exceed 500. Such a parcel
will be insured against loss. without
additional charge, in an amount equiv
alent to its actual value but not to
exceed $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14

Shades of PETER and Jerry Simpson,
what do you think of this from the
Lawrence Journal: I'm discussing the
currency reform it is beginning to. be
seen that it is unfair for national
banks to issue currency at all. The
government virtually pays the ma
tional banks interest on their capital
stock. The banks have bonds and the
bonds pay interest. Upon these bonds
currency is issued and in this way the
government pays national banks inter-
est on their capital stock. This plan
was devised years ago and it was nee
essary to sell government bonds. but
it is so unfair that it ought to be
discontinued
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14

The idea of a commission form of
government for the state seems to be
taking root in Colorado, judging from
the following from the Denver Times:
1.-THE nineteenth general assembly is
Fastening the day when state COM
mission government will be a burning
issue. There is but one obstacle,
which is in process of elimination
the formality of tabulating the legis-
lative vote on United States senators
that stands in the way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14

THE MARRIAGE BILL.

The MARRIAGE BILL.
The bill passed by the lower house
OF the legislature requiring health GER
t1fIcates before marriage ceremonies
can be performed legally is E righteous
measure and is in the interest of future
generations. 1t probably will be inn
possible to prevent the marriage of the
unit so long as there are states in
which there is no. such requirement, as
those who wish to marry will only
have to slip over into another state
and marry there. But because other
states do not do what is right is no
reason why Kansas should continue to
permit wrong, and because some, if not
permitted to marry, will fall into the
ways of debauchery is no reason why
the state should legalize improper
marriages. The state should do the
best it can to bring about right condi-
lions, it should set good example and
then perhaps other states will follow
Kansas is used to taking the lead in
matters of reform. Representative Gill
man is to be commended for the stand
he took in favoring this bill.-LeaVen-
worth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
ON TIE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K MoULTON.
BY ROY

Arcadia.
1 don't want to live in Arcadia,
Quite willingly 1 confess;
The realm that the poets rave about,
The kingdom of happiness;
Where all is serene as a morn in
Spring,
Birds singing in every tree.
There must be a catch in the thing
somewhere.
1t doesn't look good to mo.
The work in Arcadia is a cinch;
They watch the sheep all day.
And when they need music to while
the time
They hunt up their flutes and play.
They work on a very peculiar plan.
The salaries there are nil.
No one ever saw an Arcadian
Who had a two dollar bill.
They wear sheepskin toga so very
brief
They reach only to the knees,
And caper about in care-free way
No matter how chill the breeze.
There's nothing but happiness in that
land
With the proletariat,
But l couldn't ever be happy enough
To dress in a rig like that.
The life in Arcadia listens tame
With no moving picture show,
And never a single league bowling
game,
And never a chance to go
And see good circus and eat pea
nuts
Or laugh at the chimpanzee.
There may be pure joy in Arcadia,
But this town looks good to me.
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Museum of Voices.

Prof. Ferdinand Brunot, of Paris. is
establishing a museum of voices" on
graphophone disks, with a view to pre-
serving for future generations the
languages of today. Now he is making
a collection of 800 disks on a tour of
the world, including the Sioux Indian
legends. The collection, he means. shall
embrace every spoken language in the
world Every dialect, representing
every national Observation-Disclosures n,
preacher, actor or orators to be col
lected in this vast Photographic mu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New

[From the New York Press.1
A man speculates. with his money. a
woman with her heart.
santa Claus IS woman, with the
credit as usual going to a man.
A great moral trait in a man is for
him to be able to like sausages for
breakfast
Excuses on a job never finish If &C
soon as they do the man trying to hold
it down.
A girl is so sly she can nearly ALWAYS
put off being very fat till after she is
married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
A Failure.

my life,'' said the good old man,
with a weary sigh, has been a fail
ure.''
Nonsense" replied the lawyer who
had just drawn up will for him.
You are about the last man in the
world who should make such a re-
mark as that. Far from being a fail
ure, your life should be an example
for every ambitious young man. You
have become rich without stopping to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
Child Is Recovering.

Wichita, Kan, March 14.-Leah
Tubin, three years old, of this city. is
able to walk and is recovering follow
ing a bone grating operation at a hos
pitaI in this city in which a section Of
three vertebrate was removed. A piece
of bone five inches long cut from the
chiId's shin, was substituted for the
diseased bone The child suffered from
curvature of the spine.