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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-15
HYHAWKER JOTS

Smith Center makes another strong
bid for further distinction. One of its
citizens claims to be the great, great
grandson of Ethan Allen.
According to r. r. Hamilton, a friend
of the Parsons Sun, the difference be-
tween the quick and the dead lies in
the ability to dodge automobiles.
Horse sense, defines the La Harpe
Enterprise, is that peculiar quality of
the human mind which enables some
men to decline to mortgage their
homes in order to buy automobiles.
Advocates of the simple life and the
clothing of primitive man will admit,
thinks the Parsons Sun, that the cost
of living might be pretty high consider
ing the scarcity of fig leaves in Kan
saS.
OF all the ingenious excuses, the one
given by a certain milknan was the
best, decides the LIE Roy Reporter.
jug so full there was no room on top
for the cream.
When your cat and dog have been
subsisting on the dry bones in the back
yard for two weeks, suggests the Par
sons Sun, the welcome they Civ e you
on your return is not wholly due to
disinterested affection.
Judge Ruppenthal in his Rust
lings" in the Luray Herald, calls at
tention to the fact that the man with
faith in the future has again good
opportunity to buy good land at low
prices in the western counties.
Papa, I'm going to buy you a shaw
ing mug for Christmas" said a small
boy, according to the Atchison Globe.
Kind of you. my boy, but L have one,"
replied the Fond Parent. mo you
haven't, for Just dropped it," an
swered the youngster, with quivers in
MS voice and trembles in his legs.
There is this much in favor of wom-
ems clubs. insists Miss Anna Carlson
of the Lindsborg News. If a woman
has penchant for argument it is bet
ter her for to belong to a club where she
can work off her surplus stock of CAB
than to have her take 1t out on her
husband when he comes home from
work all tired out
There doesn't seem to be anything
unusual in the conclusion of H. p.
Trip, the Up Creek reporter of the
Luray Herald. Noting that the hop
pers do not appear to. have the APP
petite they had some time ago, he
thinks that "if somebody will find
some useful purpose to which to put
the hoppers, their presence would not
be such a menace.
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CONSTITUTIONAL ESSENTIALS.

The most friendless and lonely human
being on American soil holds his right
to life and liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, and all that goes to make
them up, by title indefeasible against
the world, and it is the glory of Amer
lean elf-government that by the linn
itations of the constitution we have
protected that right against even our
selves, writes United States Senator
Elihu Root in the August number of
The North American Review. That
protection cannot be continued and
that right cannot be maintained. ex-
cept by jealousy preserving at all
times and under all circumstances the
rule of principle which is eternal over
the will of majorities which shift and
pass away.
Democratic absolutism is just as re-
pulsive, and history has shown it to
be just as fatal, to the rights of indi-
vidual manhood as is monarchicaI alb
solutism.
But it is not necessary to violate
the rules of action which we have es-
tablished for ourselves in the Consti
tuition in order TO deal by law with
the new conditions of the time, for
these rules of action are themselves
subject to popular control. If the
rules are SO stated that they are
thought to prevent the doing of some
thing which is not contrary to the
principles of liberty but demanded by
them, the true remedy is to be found
in reconsidering what the rules ought
to be and, if need be, in restatiug
them so that they will give more COM
piete effect to the principles they are
designed to enforce. If as I believe,
there ought to be in my own state,
for example, workmans compensa-
ton act to supersede the present I'M
satisfactory system of accident litiga-
ton, and if the Constitution forbids
such a law-which 1 very much doubt
the true remedy is not to cast to the
winds all systematic self-restraint and
to inaugurate a new system of doing
whatever we please whenever we
please, unrestrained by declared rules
of conduct; but it is to follow the or
derby and ordinary method of amend
ing the Constitution so that the rule
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-15
GLOSE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISoN GLOBE.

Every job is the hardest in summer
Most men talk considerably with their
hands. .
Except that it is the last full month
OF summer, one can't say much for
August.
You can't worry and work very we'll
at the same time And the work pays
better.
Possibly western men are more friendly
than fasteners because they want to
brag.
What did the men do with their lodge
buttons before the coat lapel was in
vented?
When you break a visiting engagement
don't figure that anyone is keenly dis
appointed.
An Atchison man has so much trouble
he is beginning to regard hearse as a
joy wagon.
There is such a thing as mean polite
ness, which is more aggravating than
short and ugly words.
Opening other peoples mail probably is
the poorest amusement, although a good
many are anxious to play it.
How easily a boys short pants get
snagged and ruined about the time he
considers himself old enough to wear the
other kind.
Every man likes to say that when he
was younger he was quite handy with
his mitts. Also, that he was a Devil
among the Girls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-15
BY THE WY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

Dodd CASTOR observes that another
counterfeit Abe Lincoln has been de-
tected. By the word another" he in
fers that prior detections of the same
nature have been effected. We know
who he means, but wish to call his at
tention to a difference in the case;
Sulzer coyly admitted that he was
much like the late Abe Lincoln; L. r.
coyly admitted that the late Lincoln
was, in his better qualities, much like
T. R.
But at that, a birds eye view of
"Murph' and Tammany going into the
reform business is a highly exhilarat-
ing scene.
Hon. Bramlettte blames Hon. Hodges
for his defeat. Hodges has been prop
erly blamed for the weather and every
thing else of recent vintage, and now,
if he can be convicted of the Crime of
'73, the arraignment will be complete
Now maybe the bull frogs will re-
learn the forgotten art of swimming
When the first dash came, the Office
boy, who is young and did not remem-
Der anything like it, rushed to the ed
and reported that some foreign ele-
ment was coming through the win
dows.
A member of our force is a motor
cycle f1end. Every time he comes into
the shop wearing leggins and grease
spots the other members are reminded
of slow music and the high cost of
floral designs.
If they can't get Sulzer off the job
any other way. they still have the pop
ular New York expedient of putting a
gun gang on his trail.
Local gent was pinched recently be-
cause he thought he owned the world
and wasn't ashamed of it. Clear case
of nuttiritis; sane man with same be-
lief would try to keep it dark.
Rubber soles don't do a married man
much good; what he really needs is a
rubber latch key.
Casey Hagerman is IAN enemy Of
organized baseball" because he is try
ing to collect his last years wages, ac-
cording to Murphy of the Chi-Cubs.
Murph. must be laboring under the
once-popular idea that baseball should
be played for the love of sport.
The difference between mans party
and woman's party lies principally in
the odor left in the dining room. In
stead of the aroma of tobacco and 40
horsepower cheese the ladies leave a
scent of mayonnaise dressing and tall
cum powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-15
EVENING CHAT
What a Wife Should Know.
BY RUTH CAMERON

A few years ago one of our neighbors
died very suddenly. His widow had rea-
son to expect to find herself fairly we'll
off. as they had always lived comfortably
and her husband had given her to under
stand that he had plenty laid by. But
when she tried to put her hands on his
money she found herself in great diff
Guilty. His only will was a brief docu-
devising the remainder of his property to
her; But he did not definitely state in his
viii what this property was. and in his
lifetime he had never told his wife just
what securities he possessed or where he
kept them. Consequently it was years
before she was able to possess what right
fully belonged her.
That is one instance of the unnecessary
trouble which can be caused by a man
know anything about his business affairs.
Here is another.
long business trip his home was robbed
of the family jewels and silver His wife
knew they had burglar insurance but did
not know in what company. She tried to
reach her husband by letter or telegraph,
but he had gone ahead of his schedule and
every effort was in vain. The rules of the
insurance company required the notice of
the loss within a week. She failed to give
husband had On not troubled to to acquaint her
with detail which certainly concerned
her well as him.
husbands affairs which women should
know. What these things are, differs &C
knows just what they are in his own par
ticular case The idea that a woman can
not keep a secret when it is for her in
terest to do so is no longer tenable, and
the woman who is so light headed that
she is not capable of understanding at
least the simpler matters of business
scarcely exists outside of the asylum for
the mentally undeveloped.
AS rule, 1t is not because men do not
feel that they can trust their women
folks, or make them understand, that they
don't tell them these things. It's just be-
cause they, the husbands; are careless
Perhaps the women are Indifferent, too; L
suppose that is possible.
But whether or not they care anything
about knowing, women ought to know
certain things about their husbands af-
fairs and any man who truly loves his
wife will insist that she know what his
securities are. where he keeps them. what
Insurance he carries, and any other facts
that he would want to know in her place.
Men in a business partnership do not
think of keeping their partners in igno-
rance of affairs that concern the whole
firm; why should they treat their part
ners in the great partnership of marriage
any less SQuarely?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-15
SAYS UNCLE CAV
Don't get the anger habit.

Don't get the anger habit.
When you feel that an enemy or the
sheer force of circumstances has
worked you an injury, it may be up to
you to hit and hit hard. If so. get
busy, but strike calmly and without
rancor. You can't. afford to let your
enemy pile one ln5l1ry on top Of an
other and you dor if you loose your
temper.
Anger burns up a lot of energy you
need for other things. It discrepancies
your mental and physical mechanism
and leaves you prey to circumstances
and saner minds. i
He who frequently becomes angry
gets the anger habit and the habit be-
comes mania. A maniac is one who
dwells so long upon a given thing that
he gets out of joint with the world.
The old prophet who said vengeance
is mine saith the Lord" was undoubt-
eddy inspired. If he had any doubt as
to the authenticity of his revelations.
he was at least sure that this people
had better business than brooding over
their wrongs and nursing a desire to
see their enemies squirm
1t is sometimes good business to so
handle an enemy that he won't do it
again. but he who lets a desire for re-
venge dominate his life has spoiled
his own usefulness and permitted his
enemy to put his career out of killer.
first made mad" says an old proverb,
which has the exceptional merit of
having a grain of truth in it. A good
many wise humans have learned the
trick. The big man knows that he can
accomplish the undoing of the little one
by making him mad with anger.
There is no life more useless than
the one in which anger is the ruling
passion. Failure to hold ones temper
has been responsible for the ruin of
many promising career.
One of the most brilliant men I ever
knew never amounted to anything be-
cause he couldn't control himself. No
sooner was he on the way to some
worthwhile achievement than he began
to devote his time and his energies to
the punishment of some one for a
fancied injury
He was always out Ito get'' some
body. The painstaking energy that
would have made him great was de-
voted to the undoing of those he didn't
like. Consequently, it was said of him
that 'his job didn't last" 1t couldn't.
For trouble followed him as vuItures
seek carrion and there was no peace
for those about him. He was a dis
organizer and a marplot. Sooner or
later his employers and his associates
discovered him to be a monomaniac and
got rid of him. He died a dependent
and those who fed him drew a sigh of
relief.
It's a pity, but it was a type He
was one of the many who nurse a
perpetual crouch to their own undoing
He multiplied his troubles by spending
too much trying to get even. An enemy
had but to do him a trifling injury
to induce him to work a still greater
harm to himself. He was his own
victim.
Don't get the anger habit
Don't be a monomaniac upon the
subject of revenge
You've better business on this earth
than Furnishing your enemies. The
worst they can do to you is to monopo-
lie your time and they can't do that
if you hold your temper.-(Copyrigh
1913 by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate)
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HUNOR or THE DIP

Old Man-"My dear little boy, what is
the matter that you are crying so hard ?''
Small YOU'D be crying, too If you'd
had to be safe and sane when YOU was
a little Doy."-Baltimore American
The dangers of great city must he
terrible said the stranger in a metropo-
lis. Il suppose they are" said the police
man. "a lot of people take chances of
being run over while they are wandering
around looking at the electric light signs"
Washington Star.
Young Lawyer (having passed his ex-
ams)-"Well, I'm glad it's over. I've been
working to death the last few years try
ing to get my legal education" Old
Lawyer-'Well, cheer up, my boy; it'll
be a long time before you have any more
work to do.'-Boston Transcript.
Much energy is not utilized. There
ought to be some way of conserving the
the energy that goes to waste in chewing
gum. If we could only harness the gum
chewers. eh?''-Washington Herald.
How much do you think he's worth?'
Are you asking about his efficiency or
his financial conditon?'-Detroit Free
Press.
why are you in such hurry for the
had Of the old is almost exhausted. '-Buf-
falo Express.
until the shower is over" II prefer this
harness shop" said her husband. You
won't see so many things you want
Louisville Courier-Journal.
He is a self-made man, isn't hep "He
was" Then he is" mo, the woman he
didn't like the result he had ac-
complished, and she has made him over"
Houston Post.
Success will come to any one who per-
seve-es.' Il don't know about that I've
been married for ten years now, and my
husband hasn't liked anything I've had
for dinner yet"-Louisville Courier-JouI-
nal. e
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FROM OTHER PENS
FAMINE, MUT1I4AT1oN, BUrCHERY.

FAMINE, MUTII4ATION, BUTCHERY.
The Bucharest armistice should mean
the end of the war between the late
Balkan allies. 1t has shocked human
ity by its calculated atrocity. EX-
Senator Young of Iowa, returning from
the Servian forces, tells The World in
London that cholera RACES among the
soldiers and mutilation of the wounded
shows the savagery of the combatants.
From Paris General Miles sends a sim
liar account of wars ravages in Bull
garia. In all the Balkan battle-land.
wheat and oats rot in the field, corn
is strangled by weeds while neighbors
butcher each other, and the armies
take all the hay for transport oxen.
Winter will bring starvation. Last
autumn we were told of Christians
leagued in holy war to drive out the
Turkish oppressor We were told that
a winter campaign was planned so that
the men could divide in peace their
conquests, get home and plant their
crops. This CHASTITY scene of mutila-
ton, slaughter, fire, rapine and impend-
ing famine is the result. The Bulgari-
ans did the heavy fighting of the first
war, enabling the Servians and Greeks
to win easy victories over Turks cut
off from their base. Now the two small
er states unite in trimming Bulgaria
down, with some help from Turks and
RoumanfanS, so that she shall not oV-
erShadow other Balkan states They
are conquering for annexation sections
whose Bulgarian population will hate
Greek and Servian rule more fiercely
than they hated the Turk Thus in
massacre and mutilation and famine
the seeds are sown of massacre and
mutilation and famine in the future
And earth's most accomplished press
agents strive to exaggerate now Ser
Wan, now Greek, now Turkish, now
Bulgarian atrocities. to sway European
public opinion and affect the political
fortunes of the blood-stained rivals in
butchery.-New York World
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KANSAS COANENT
THE CASE OF CASTRO.

Since Hon Cipriano Castro went
abroad to enjoy a surgical operation
and otherwise improve his health,
there, has been "a suspicion that the
retired president of Venezuela took
enough money with him to enable him
to live happily ever afterward, but he
didn't. Virtually an exile from the
western hemisphere for awhile, he was
always planning to get back and start
handmade revolution and make him
self dictator of something or other.
Apparently he has partially succeeded;
he has started rebellion, ana his life
has taken on renewed interest. he
may finish violently with his back to
an adobe wall, and he may triumph
over his enemies and again become
ruler of men and the receiving end of a
revenue department. But being in the
game seems to have been the main
object, and he should enjoy himself
while the celebration lasts, whatever
results are shown by the final box
score. Doubtless Hon. Castro is more
villain than patriot, and he has fire.
quently strained the Monroe doctrine,
and produced other international com
plications. And yet we find it difhcuH
to blame him. Many a better man
has found retirement irkSome, and teit
lost when not working at his regular
trade. Revolutions and dictatorship
are the regular calling of the South
American Napoleon, unfortunate as
that may be for Venezuela, and he just
naturally couldn't be happy where all
was peace and plenty, and he had no
one to boss but a bone-headed valet,
who enjoys being bossed. And then,
you know how the cost of living Is
soaring.-Atchison Globe.
GREAT DANGER FROM FIRE.
The state fire marshal is reminding
the people of Kansas that fires are oc-
curing daily from sparks catching in
trash piles, from children playing with
matches and setting fire to dry grass
and vegetation, and from smokers care
lessly dropping matches whose flame
is not entirely extinguished. All of
tn se fires could be avoided and their
occurrence can in nearly every instance
be charged to carelesness. Trash and
rubbish should be burned only when
some one is near with supply of water
to stop any spread of the flames. Many
barn fires are occurring from spon-
taneous combustion caused by storing
new hay. Openings in each end of the
hay loft will provide ventilation that
may prevent a fire. If a barrel of
water were kept near every barn, many
of the fires could be put out. A num-
Der of fires have recently destroyed
barns and live stock in them because
no water was near to check the fire at
the start.-Hutchinson Gazette.
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THERE Is NO UNBELIEF."

1hE<tSE h NJ ONbE1l1Ef.
There is no unbelief;
Whoever says, when clouds are in the
And waits to see it push away the clod-
He trusts in God.
There is no unbelief;
W oever says, when clouds are in the
BE patient. heart; light breaketh by
and by
Trusts the Most High.
There is no unbelief;
Whoever sees, meath winters field of
The silent harvest of the future grow
Gods power must know.
There is no unbelief;
Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep,
Content to lock each sense in slumber
deep,
Knows God will keep.
There is no unbelief;
Whoever says tomorrow "the I'M
known"
1.-THE Future" trusts that power alone
He dareS diSown.
There is no unbelief;
And dares to live when life has only
woes,
Gods comfort knows.
There is no unbelief;
For thus by day and night unconsciously
The heart lives by the faith the lips deny.
God knoweth why.
Lucy York Case.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.1
The supply of talk exceeds the demand.
Young people seem to have a monopoly
good luck.
Do bad fish that bite on Sunday deserve
to oct the hook?
But most men prefer a dimpled cheek
to a classical high-brow.
1t isn't recorded that the Lord loveth a
cheerful giver of advice.
Ever notice how much fuss men make
about their honor-on the stage?
1t is easier to break a mans will than
1t IS to sidetrack a woman's won't.
She is indeed a selfish summer girl who
wants whole hammock to herself.
Isn't it queer how many of your friends
dollars?
Nearly everybody in a small town pre-
tends to deSpiSe an amateur Show-yet
nearly everybody goes.
When a man works fifteen hours a day
trying to earn money enough to buy his
wife all the fool things she wants. that
is love
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QUAKER MEDITATIONs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
A big voice often is mistaken for a gift
of oratory.
Carrying weight for age is what makes
life a burden.
Even A-ray gowns don't disclose
woman's hidden intentions.
The coin of vantage is all right if you
can convert it into cash.
Many man saddles himself with wife
and then hopes the girth will break
Some women seem to think that a mar
rage license is equivalent to life con-
tract to lecture.
Nell-"They say that bogus Count is
marked man." Belle-'Well, 1 dare say
he's marked down at any rate"
Serb bler-What has become of the dime
novel of our boyhood days?" Scrawler-
1T now sells for S150.''
"A man perhaps may become famous
over night" says the Manayunk Phil
osopher. but he generally wakes up in
the morning"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

know it all.
- d 4
Truth wouldn't hurt so much if it
were not stretched in the telling.
= - =
Trouble is one of the callers that is
seldom content to make a single visit.
= + r
Few people pay any attention to the
many things which they have to be
thankful for.
Folk with the price are seldom, #
ever, at a loss to know where to go
for their vacations.
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Shower of Fish.

Frank Laning, formerly police
judge of Fresno, came in from his
ranch, five miles west of this city,
this morning and reported that he
and several other ranchers had found
dozens of fish, ranging from very
small ones to those 1 8 inches in length
scattered over vineyards and or
chards.
He can explain the phenomenon
only through the theory that a water
spout sucked them out of the San
Joaquin river, or possibly out of the
ocean, and deposited them there. The
ranches have not been irrigated this
season, and therefore the theory that
they were brought there by irrigating
bitches is impossible.
Laning first noticed the fish last
Friday, Immediately after rainstorm.
They were dead, but quite fresh and
plant. Old settlers recall a similar
incident in Stanislaus county May
years ago.
The fish resemble carp.-Fresno
(CaL) dispatch to San Francisco Call.
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Kiss or Bfte2

Policemen ought to be compelled to
prove their ability to distinguish between
bite and a kiss said Magistrate
FRESH. in discharging Meyer Linderman,
of IS South First street, Brooklyn, in
known as the "pretzel peddler Of Tomp-
kins square" was arranged on a charge
of biting the hand of Policeman John
Herman, when the latter tried to arrest
him. Herman admitted that no mark had
been left of the mans teeth. Linderman
explained that he had but obbseQuiously
kissed the hand that seized him. and Mag
istrate Freschi took his word for It
New York American.