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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

We never did have any luck in favoring
big men who play golf.
The rule is that the fountain pen which
doesn't leak is empty.
A little man isn't necessarily henpecked,
but he looks henpecked.
Don't make the mistake of ducks, and
imagine the first sign Of spring is spring.
So many people are critics who have
not had their qualifications passed upon.
AS airships no longer kill many as
formerly the game of motor polo has
been started.
AS a general rule the labels on steamer
trunk represent the most expensive dec
orationS.
You may have observed that the smart
linguist is always able to speak seven
languages.
Then there is the gent to whom every
incline seems to be about at the angle of
forty-five degrees.
While the novelsts don't seem to grasp
it, it sometimes happens that the hero
gets severely whipped.
Every village believes that eventually
1t will become a dramatic center, partc-
ularly If it has an e1ocutionist
AS a person grows old and -blooded
the impression increases that the tllermo-
meter is too modest in it's declarations.
ST never thought much or Professor as
a title until I encountered a tight wire
artist who posed as a prof."-Rufe Hos
kins. .,-s..,. ..--.-.-..- . .
tobacco manufacturers, although the real
article is supposed to be an agricultural
product.
Jude johnson, who has been insisting
for several months that Uncle Sam is a
great big baby and should bave interven-
heard that Short jerks will organize a
company of volunteers here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
THE PUBLIC INTEREST.

1t will be most fortunate for all
concerned if the arbitrator shall
reach a solution of the dispute be-
tween the eastern railroads and their
flremen, acceptable to both parties.
The public has a greater interest in
the threatened strike than the com
panies or the men, because it is vastly
Digger than either side in the contro-
yersy. Its rights should be paramount.
Its welfare must never be overlooked.
The work of the great common car
riers is SO vital to the very existence
of business, SO essential to millions of
men whose living is involved, so neces-
sary to the feeding and housing and
general comfort of the American peo-
pie. that to stop the wheels on fifty
railroads would be a serious blow to
the country, a public disaster of the
first magnitude.
These facts are SO plain, so impos-
s1ble to push aside, so much the con-
Germ or the man in the street and on
the farm, that the gravity of the issue
goes far toward making open war be-
tween the railroads and the firemen
impossible. The public will not be-
heVe, unless absolutely forced to that
conclusion, that so great an evil is to
fall upon capital and labor alike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
EVENING CHAT
Hickory Nut People.
BY RUTH CANNRON,

The other day 1 heard a man ask
one of his superiors in business for a
favor. He asked him in a pleasant,
half joking manner and if refusal
were necessary, might easily have
been refused in the same light vein
But instead of doing this, the older
and almost rude, that it must have
made his employee feel as if he had
run plump up against a stone wall
Even I, who was a disinterested wit
ness. felt as one does when the clouds
suddenly shut out the sun on an April
morning.
Anyone would certainly have re-
ceived the impression that the older
man was offended at being asked for
the favor and took pleasure in refus-
ing it in as disagreeable q manner as
possible.
What was my surprise when 1 after
wards happened to find out that even
before he was asked, he had tried of
his own accord to make it possible to
grant this privilege to his young en-
ployee and was much disappointed
when he found it impossible.
Now why on earth couldn't he have
given some hint of this in his man
ner? Why couldn't he have spoken in
a kindly tone and expressed some re-
gret? What harm could it have done,
and how much less uncomfortable it
would have made his petitioner.
And this is the sort of thing that
man is continually doing-putting
himself out to benefit people, and then
being SO abrupt and sharp and some
times so undeniably rude in his man
ner toward them that they take him
for the crossest old curmudgeon in the
world.
OF course the people who know him
intimately know that he really has a
heart of gold, but they are very few.
He isn't the kind who invites init
mates.
Now it seems to me that this man
IS fairly common type. There are a
great many people in this world who
are like the hickory nut, sound and
sweet as can be inside, but enclosed
in a stiff, impenetrable manner.
I know woman who has the kind
est heart in the world and the most
unfortunate manner She is always
trying to help people and always be-
ing rebuffed and misunderstood be-
cause of her nervous and irritating
way.
OF course what one does is more i'm
portant than the manner in which one
does it, but not SO much more inpor-
tant as many people seem to think
A gracious manner is gift to all
with whom we come in contact. 1t
softens and alleviates refusal, and en-
ferred.
One of my pleasantest recollectfons
of all my newspaper work is that of
a woman who refused me an inter-
view, but refused it with an exquisite
graciousness and kindly regret that
took all the sting out of my disap-
pointment.
A pleasant manner is something
that we owe both to those about us
and to ourselves To those about ms
because it helps make life pIeasanter
for them. To ourselves because our
manner is the only measure which
most people have to Judge us by, and
therefore We ought to look well to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

Chanute is going in for building two
new high schools at once and will vote
100000 for the purpose.
Water in .Emporia is SO bad that
the Gazette is advising the citizens to
can the snow.
A Fac-Simile, Felicitous, F'estivity
club" has been organized in F'redonia.
What is the answer?
A baby was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Joan Cakes of Arkansas City Satur-
day. An acorn as it were.
Dickinson county claims the cham
pfon mean man. He is having all his
hedge pulled out to keep his men from
lying in the shade next summer.
p c Young of F'redonia, who saw
his congressional shadow last spring,
says the Parsons Sun, is now presi-
dent of the Grounding Oil company,
which has been organized at Indepen-
dence.
A Lawrence couple left home sud
denly and deserted their three-year
old child who was i'll. The child was
had left it without food or warmth.
This causes J. r. Burton to remark:
IF an animal would do a stunt like
| that it would be shot,
Optimistic note from the Ottawa
Herald: with the wheat saved, the
ponds filled and the springs going
| again, the farmers can put their en-
tire attention toward building the gar
age or the family touring car and car
rying on the campaign to swat the
chinch bug and drag the roads,
The Kansas City Star has grabbed
another of the clever young men of
Kansas in the person of Clad Thomp-
son, Pip Daniels of the Howard
Courant, who goes to the city to begin
his first metropolitan experience this
! week. Pip" has been well brought
up in a newspaper way, well fathered
and well mothered, and is as certain
| to make good as the sparks are to fly
upward.-Io1a Register.
We have been thinking of quitting
the newspaper business to devote our
energies to making money says Conner
DavieS-but we won't. We have
changed our mind. What's the use
of piling up a wad of money, the ulti-
mate result of which will be the scat
tering of fellows viscera, thorax and
diaphragm, from Battle Creek, Mich. !;
to Albuquerque, n. NJ; to settle a
scramble as to which shall get the
money-the heirs the expert chem
lists, or the herd of lawyers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
QUAKER Sl1-DITATTONS.

TF'rom the Philadelphia Record.l
Some women wear well, and other wear
off.
A woman isn't a jewel just because she
is set in her ways.
A fool friend can generally work you
more harm than a sworn foe.
The man who gives himself away
doesn't necessarily have liberal views.
The real secret of happiness is to let
the other fellow do the worrying.
If woman didn't carry a watch she
would never know how late she is.
Some men buy gold bricks, some have
gold bricks thrust upon them, and others
marry for money.
Nine times out of ten the fellow who
complains that he has never had show
is natural born loafer.
The Angel Gabriel was practicing for
his final blowout. 81 wonder IL the en-
core fiend will be present. he unused.
Mrs. Guzzler-"Aren't you ashamed to
come home in this condition. Mr.. Guzzler
Mortified to death, my dear l find
my capacity isn't what it used to be-.
He-'tWont you promise to marry me?"
She-fYes, one condition He-"And
that is?'' She-"That you won't be silly
enough to expect me to live UP to it,
Mr.. Subbubs-''Why did the new cook
leave2 / thought she was perfectly salts
fled with the place. Mrs. SubbubS-'I
fancy she made the discovery that she
was too stout to wearmys clothes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
OUR. Duty.

In an editorial on the recent hapnen-
lngs in Mexico the New York World
probably voices the sentiments of a
great majority of the American people.
Regarding our responsibility in the
matter it says:
Tragedies past and in prospect so,1tb
of the Rio Grande should cause no
change in the attitude of the govern
ment and people of the United States.
Our responsibility is solemn indeed be-
cause it is many-sided. We may have
duties in Mexico. but we have more
important ones at home. AS the near
est powerful neighbor we may owe
some things to the world at large. but
until other complications arise we owe
more to ourselves.
President Taft is right in providing
against possible contingencies. He is
even more emphatical1y right in his
policy of non-intervention except as a
last and desperate resort. We, have
the uttermost obligation to safeguard
the lives of our own people and of other
foreigners in Mexico. We have no OBJ
legation to imperil the lives of our own
people and other foreigners by keep
ing the people of Mexico from each
others thrOats"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
THE MoRTGAGE TAX LAW.

Unless the people of Kansas have be-
come lenders instead of borrowers
there appears to be no justification for
the passage of the mortgage tax law
just enacted by the legislature. True,
it will get the money, but it will be
collected from the borrower and not
from the lender. 1t will be included
in his expense bill along with COM
missions and similar charges
Tt is an excellent plan for taxing the
same value three times. AS the law
now stands the man who owns real
estate pays taxes on it. Then If he
borrows money giving a mortgage on
his property he pays taxes on the mort
gage. He puts the money obtained on
the mortgage in the bank or into stock,
or improvements and is taxed on it
again. :
1t is enough to be taxed once on what
one has without being taxed twice on
that and also on his debts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
THE EXTRA SESSION.

The session of congress is in a fair
way to become a continuous perform
| ance. Mr.. Wilson has decided to call
that body together April 1. 1t seems
impossible to get needed legislation at
the regular session. In other words
| congress will not do anything until it
is driven to it.
Much of the dilatoriness of the
national legislature doubtless is due to
the fact that new members do not take
their seats until four months after
election and do not get an opportunity
to meet in regular session until more
than a year has elapsed.
Last fall the people voted for re-
vision of the tariff If changes are
needed they are needed now; hence the
extra session. If action were post
poned until next December the country
would remain in state of uncertainty
all summer. Uncertainty always is
inimical to the business prosperity of
the country.
Whatever is to be done, it is better
to have it over with and give the
voters a chance to see how they like
it before another election.
The time of the extra session proba-
bIv will be devoted largely to con-
sideration of the customs. But - in
come tax amendment to the raj
constitution has been ratified By the
requisite number of states and that
matter will demand action on the part
of congress to make it effective
Legislation connected with the cur
rency has been limited at but the pub
lie probably will await contentedly ac-
ton on that subject. There does not
seem to be any clamor for change
except on the part of the bankers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
A Substitute for Gasoline.

Attempts to solve the fuel problem
for automobiles grow more numerous
eac day. Many inventors are working
with this end in view, and several
lines of endeavor in the field have
already been outlined in these col
uInns Still another. based upon a
new liquid, the composition of which
is held secret is now being demon
strated in this city. T. H. Pollock, a
mechanical engineer of Monongahela,
Pa, recently experimental with the
fuel in his 35-horsepower car.
After a run of a few miles a knock
developed in the cylinder. Not know
ing what caused it, the machines was
run back to the garage and the rods
and cylinders examined, and it was
found that all carbon had been re-
moved and the cylinders were very
bright and dry. 1t was concluded that
more oil would have to be used The
run was continued until II miles had
been made.
When the comparison was made it
was found that the consumption of
liquid, of Myrine and gasoline, was q
to I in favor of the former.
Otto w. Bonn, who has charge of it
i'm New York. said that If the restric-
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to meet those of Milton. After that
the girl had slipped into a. seat ana
taken up a bit of needlework Inc
conversation, entirely in English.
hinged upon the engaged pair.
But there was a strained atmos-
phere in the room that sent Anne
the fatigue of travelling as her excuse.
During the drive home Milton was
strangely silent. The dark head OF
Minerva with it's soft knot of black
hair and its smooth white brow fioat-
ed before him in the moonlight Yet
Anne's arm at his side felt peculiarly
restful. And he was engaged, to all
appearances, to Anne.
the silence, don't worry. We will
manage to break our init
will not be difficult. I am not blind
to the fact that the little Greek girl
has been selected for you. 1t is a
pity that we were SO premature In our
desire to escape the matrimonial mar
ket." Anne drew suddenly back into
her corner of the carriage A swift
desire to escape matrimony IN any
case swept over her. Only by an eff
fort did she refrain from hurting it
out into that moon-lit road.
Unaware of Anne's emotions, Milton
one week. Anne, before saying goodby
to me? I am upset tonight You and
your dear friendship have been so
much to me that I could not possibly
''Will you, during that week, see as
much of Minerva PeneuS as posi- bic %
Anne's voice questioned.
YES" said Milton graveIy, II Will. "
Another week passed. Milton led
Anne down to the foot of the garden
and drew her to the stone bench be-
side him. His voice and gesture were
weary.
'tIt Is no use, Anne he said, "the
attraction was only for the moment.
I cannot love her." He put his hand
over Anne's and held it firmly. eye GU
are leaving in the morning-it must
be goodnight and goodby now" He
took her other hand and drew her to
her feet. The fact that her fingers
were free of rings sent the blood rush
ing through his body. He had intend
ed to let his lips rest lightly on Anne's
cheek at parting. Instead their lips
met and Millions arm crept about her
until she was close in his arms.
"Anne," he breathed, "Anne!" After
moment he found his voice. you
are trembling like a leaf, loved one
A smile crept into Anne's eyes.
Love has tendency to make one
tremble,'' she whispered to him. 81
did not feel that way when was en-
gagged to Hillary. / am not now" she
added softly.-(Copyright, 1913, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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HUNOR or THE DxY

Charley, dear" said young Mrs. Tor
klTs, do you think that women ought TO
be prevented from voting?" Certainly
not would you try to stop me If I
wanted to go to the POLISH Not for an
instant" Wen, then, what in the world
is the use of wanting to vote?''-LdverpooI
Mercury.
The weather is very trying to every
body said the doctor. Yes" replied
Mr.. Meekton; "I don't see how my wife
is going to bear up under it. When the
sun doesn't shine she's miserable and
when it does she says it's fading the car
pet.'-Home Comforts
s'How are Jack and his wife getting
along together Generally very well.
but not always, You remember he got
her to promise that whenever he went
wrong in his department made a break
in his grammar she'd correct hin1?'
Yes" well, she's doing it-''-Chicago
Tribune
I'VE reused the audience to great en-
thusiasm,'' said Mr.. Storrnfngton Barnes.
did they give you an ovation?' They
did more than that They got So interested
that they insisted on breaking in with
original dialogue, and some of them even
tried to climb on the stage and take part
in the battle scene. Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27

The recall has taken one step to-
ward finding a place on the statute
books, the resolution submitting it to the
people having passed both houses of the
legislature. The voters will pass on the
measure n 1914. They should be able
to decide by that time whether or not
they want it, With the recall should
go Iengthening of the terms of off
GERS If a public servant is giving sat
isfaction he should not be called upon
to make a campaign for re-electi n
every two years. If the work is not
approved he can be removed by the
recall at any time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
FROM OTHER PENS
ARBITRATION, NOT A srRIKT

ARBITRATION, NOT A STRIKE
1t was reasonable to assume that
arbitration in some form would ulti-
mately be agreed upon by the firemen
and the railroads. Any other outcome
of the prolonged negotiations would
have been public calamity.
In yielding to the obstinate demands
of the firemen that the controversy
be arbitrated under the Erdman act,
the railroads sacrificed their own
judgment to the ends of Cancellation.
They deserve the more praise for
their course because every offer that
they made in order to secure peace
full settlement-and none called for
anything but an impartial board OF
arbitratorS-waS summary rejected
by the firemen.
There was much justice in the OBJ
jections of the railroads to the meth
eds of arbitration prescribed by the
Erdman act. 1t is a fundamental de-
feet of the law that it makes two OF
the three arbitratorS determined par
tisans. The member named by each
side is not an arbitrator in fact but
the representative or attorney of those
by whom he is chosen. To that ex-
tent each side packs the court On
the third member of the commission
alone falls the responsibility of de-
Gliding between his two associates. Too
much power is thus placed in the
hands of one man.
If the Erdman act is to be appealed
to in similar controversies IN the Iu-
ture, it should be amended and
broadened in the common Interest,"
New York World.
WOMEN AND THEIR PROBLEM.
The problem for women of com
bining economic independence with
motherhood is as fundamental as it is
difficult to solve. This once more has
been demonstrated in the case of a
New York school teacher whose petit
ton for a years leave of absence with
out pay, that she may perform fifty
the duties of a mother, was refused
by the board of education.
This suggests some rather interest
ing questions involved in the latter
day feminist movement. If the move
ment for the emancipation of woman
is to produce pernnanent-not tempo
rary-results.a the duties of a wage
Garner and mother must be not only
combined but also reconciled..
Under our present Industrial condi-
lions is such Republication possible =?
We believe not. Because, if years
absence from the daily task is neces-
sary to the birth and welfare of one
child 1--WE think it is at last desirable,
if not absolutely necessity no wom-
an who is a mother can compete sue
cessfully with man.
Modern, greatly specialized,
methods give the steady worker too
great a advantag e-Washington Her
aid.
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says UNCLE CIV

Be r1erciful to the kicker. You may
not like him any more than you like
cockleburs and for much the same
reason, but all the same this would be
| a sad old world without him. That
worldly wise motto which advises you,
"Boost-don't knock" is well. enough
| in its place, but 1T is useful mainly to
stop the kicking when we are Inclined
to overdo it.
The kicker may not be the apostle
of progress, but he's a mighty useful
disciple. Neither the individual nor
meanness or mossbackism until some
body lets out a roar that won't permit
the guilty to sleep O. nights.
Say what you will of conscience, an
uneducated moral mentor is a good
deal worse than no guide at all. 1t
was a matter of conscience for GER
tain pious Asiatics to burn widows
upon their husbands pyres, and that
witches under miIlstones and sent
heretics to the stake. 1t was only the
kick of outraged intelligence re-
sounding down the ages that finally
and it was but the other day-put an
end to each of these cheerful prac-
tees.
There is nothing like a kick prop
erly placed to educate a conscience,
and by the same token. a kick does
wonders in elevating our ideals. II it
had not been for the more or less
grouchy kickers, we'd still be offer
ing up human sacrifices to some cross
eyed idol and trembling at every rain
cloud that proved the gods displeas-
ure.
The history of the race is pretty
much of a piece with the history OF
the individual. Men revise their no
tons of piety as the years go by and
make over their ideals That is prog
ress. But few men of their own ini-
tiative break their moral or inte1lec-
tual bonds. We have to be kicked out
of our chains.
The deepest seated prejudice in the
human mind is that universal love
for our own opinions. There is an
all but negligible fraction of the race
that doesn't consider its own opinion
infallible. These are the intellectual
supermen who have learned that the
mere fact that an opinion is their own
doesn't lend sanctity to it. The rest
of us unwittingiy become champions of
the views that appeal to us, and are
willing to defend them at huge cost
out of sheer vanity. Only upon occa-
sion are we open to reason. Ordinar-
lily. we are willing to punish those who
disagree with us. We stop short of
crucifixion because it has gone ont Of
fashion, and for no other reason.
The value of the kicker lies in his
disposition to prick our vanity and
prove to us once in a while that, hate
him as We will, he is right and we are
wrong. He bawls at us in conyersa-
ton. from the pulpit and in the public
prints He skaters our vanity and
leaves us naked and ashamed And
before he has quite completed the lob
we have gotten our feet into the right
path We go forward cussing the
kicker, it is true, but still we move
and in the right direction.
A reasonable amount of kicking
and cussfng lis good for everybody.
Blessed be the foot that boots us out
OF our errors---(Copyright, 1913. by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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LEARNING To CARE.

He broke her heart because he let
Her sit in loneliness at night
It was his custom to forget s
To try to make her moments bright;
By selfish moments actuated,
He let her sit and grieye alone;
Neglected, saddened, isolated,
Her hope, her youth, her beauty flown
She dropped while he pursued his way,
Forgetting that the careless may
Sometimes be brutal
Killed by neglect and by despair,
She left him wondering, weeping there
Some people never learn to care
Till earrings futile.
IS. E. Kiser, in the Chicago Record
Herald.