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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
EVENING CHIT
A Wife and Yet a Daughter.
7Y RUTA CAMERON.

Inc tie that binds husband to wife
and wife to husband stands above all
other obligations, but it does not can
Gel all others. There are a great
many young people nowadays who
seem to think it does.
young girl who has been the chief
reason for living for her father and
mother all her life, falls in love and
llIdr!ies- Inc unceasing efforts and
sacrIlces which they have been max
ing ever since she was born, in order
TO give her pretty clothes, a good edu-
calon and an opportunity to be with
the right people, eliminate in the
preparations for her marriage.
She accepts a beautiful trousseau a
large supply of household goods and
her expensive wedding-with all the
love and effort and sacrifice these
thlngs mean, as her natural right,
ana gives her parents the tenderest
or fareWells in return. You see she
is going to a distant city to live. Her
husband has an idea that he will find
better business opportunities there
for her 1t means a new life, so full
OF fascinating and wonderful possibil-
the old
For them, 1.-The light of the whole
world dies" when she is gone.
ana yet she has never a qualm. It
never seems to occur to her to feel
any deep regrets, or to try to find
some other plan of action that will
satsfy her obligations to her husband
and her parents. She seems to feel az
If the old obligations were completely
cancelled when she assumed the new.
DO you think she is right?
1 don't
AS 1 said at first, I believe the OBJ
legation betweeR husband and wife is
the first thing in the world, but not
the whole thing. And the man or
woman who has any sense of graft
tude will never be happy without do
ing his or her best to fulfill both OBJ
legations.
Sometimes the two needs pull so
hard in opposite directions that it is
not possible to satisfy them both. And
then, of course it is the primal tie
that exists between the two whom
God has made one flesh, which must
stand. On sea voyage once met
woman who was going to South Amer
lea to meet her husband whom she
had not seen for five years. We sup
posed he had been in South America
all that time, but she nonchalantly ex-
planned that he had made one brief
trip north. He did not, however, have
time to come to the middle west where
she was living with her mother and
as her mother was i'll, she said she did
him. 1 remember what a queer. I'M
natural creature she seemed to the
rest of us.
But this is the exceptional case.
Ordinarily the two obligations are
not mutually exclusive. If she really
tries, a woman can usually manage
to be good wife and still a daughter,
and man doesn't need to cease being
a son the day he becomes a husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
BY TIE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

The last election was about the
most satisfactory on record. 1t seems
to be case of everybody happy.
The drys consider it a notable victory
for the cause, and the vets are of the
optomistic opinion that things will
loosen up a little now
Every man has his price-if not in
cash in some other thing of value to
him, but some men put the price so
high above the market value of their
virtue, that they live and die honest
Others sell out for a little cheap no
! toriety, and think they are honest be-
cause there was no cash consideration
in the deal.
A contemporary announces that gov
eminent authorities are looking for 20
girls who mysteriously disappeared,
and that the girls were fresh from
Europe" The fact that they were
fresh may have something to do
with the fact that they failed to reach
the proper destination.
But perhaps the paragraph should
have said: Green from Europe"
A new free paper has been started
in Topeka. That free paper is worth
just what it costs, is a bromide, but
nonetheless true.
And, if it follows the route taken
by other free papers, the publisher, Il
J Morse, will soon take r E into part
nership.
The evil effects of coffee may be aptly
illustrated by the sad case of the New
Jersey gent who recently passed away
at the tender age of 103, after drinking
cups per diem all his life. Be warned
in time! Cut it out and drink some
of the slop offered as a substitute.
And, continuing the subject of break
fast drinks, Mrs. Wilson gave society
breakfast without wine. We heartily
agree with Mrs. Wilson that wine is
the poorest possible excuse for a morn
ing snort.
A Chicago doctor claims that rheum-
insists that rheumatism is a ding
donged, double-dashed nuisance.
1t may have been observed that a
number of politicians are changing
their politics. The politician who OBJ
jects to being horned away from the
pie counter resemble the virtuous gink
who said he would never, never marry
a woman for her money-if he could
frame up any other way to get it.
Speaking of Partisan novelties, a duel
in which both participants were slight
ly punctured, was staged recently in
the French capital
The charge against Senator Gore
seems to approve the contention that
when one of the five senses is lost, the
others are more highly developed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcH1soN GLOBE.

There are times when not telling is bet
ter than telling the truth.
A deep breath is more refreshing than
a deep drink, and costs less.
~ woman never gets so old that she can
pass mirror without looking into it.
People have such swift imaginations
that the first reports are usually exag-
gerated a good deal.
You may have observed that the chill
dren who are Ruled by Love are not gov
erned very strictly.
Why. we rise to inquire, is so much
more fuss made over the June bride than
over those of other months?
Soon be time for the farmers to renew
their quarrel as to whether early or late
planting is best for the corn.
Alb Adkins says he didn't marry his
wifes kin, but that seems to be no rea-
son why he shouldn't help support them
We are uatient, and much enduring, blu ::
no weather man can give satisfaction by
mixing billiards and tornadoes
Most young men reach a point some
time in their career when their idea oil
heaven is to have all the good clothes
they want
An agent can work any kind of a
scheme on woman if his eyes happen to
have the color and expression of those OF
her first boy, who died when he was
baby.
II claim this little distinction: I never
forget to mail my wife's letters; being
fan , well acquainted with me, my W lie
mails her own letters. "-Rufe HoSkins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
DISCRETION IN LAW ENFORCE
MENT

| One of the strongest arguments in
favor of home rule for cities, that has
appeared is found in an article in the
April American. The writer says: If
the mayor and police of New YORK
| should conspire to enforce 1or 40
hours all the laws on the statute book,
indiscriminately and without respect
| of persons there would be a lurid riot,
and the militia would patrol the
streets. Doctor Parkhurst, Rabbi
Wise and Mr.. William Randolph
Hearst might grimly stand their
ground a while, but it is ten to one
that even they would be swept into
the temper of the mob. For instance.
there is a law against Sunday labor;
but should the observer, church
member and vestryman in regular
standing, be hailed before the mag1S-
trate, though his clothes-line on Sum
day afternoon proclaim to all Harlem
that cleanliness is supplanting godn-
ness? No, we all instinctively felt
that this irregularity came within the
purview of his conscience and his rec
tor. Or, there is a law against gamb-
Iing-yet think of the Strong Arm
Squad descending upon bridge party
and battering down the doors!
represent the common conscience of
the race must be applied with discre-
ton and discrimination. 1t is a mis-
fortune of their unsound philosophy.
Discretion differs with executives.
Mayor van Wyck's discretion was I'M
like Mayor Gaynor's, and both are I'M
like Mayor Strong's or Mayor Lows.
If Doctor Parkhurst were mayor, he
n in
directions and lightly in others. So
would Mr.. McAneny, Mr.. Tim Sulli-
van, Bishop Greer. or, for that matter,
anyone But as long as this compul-
sorry discretion exists-as long, name
Iy as the four-flush statute conflicts
with public opinion-so long the po-
lice, the working force of the execu-
tive, will be subjected to more severe
temptation than society has any right
to put upon anyone. This is no exc
cutives fault, and no executive can
help it. These temptations would be
quite as urgent upon the New York
police force if Doctor Parkhurst were
mayor as they are now. They do not
depend upon the character, energy
or intentions of any mayor. They
arise-inevitably arise-out of our
hypocritical and bungling philosophy
of lawmaking.
At present, our great and powerful
cities are in theoretical bondage to
whatever general laws may be con-
ceived by a rural majority in the leg
islature. Many such laws are incon
sistent with sour1 economics, demo-
cratic philosophy, or even democratic
ethics. AS such they are unenforce
able, and the direct cause of the cor
ruption and inefficiency that every
body deploreS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08

I'VE are not soulmates-we cannot
marryi" sighed the girl.
But / say we CAM exclaimed Bob.
What have them old back numbers
got to do with us?"
Everything I cannot
marry butcher-just a butcher
But your father is a cooper
mean that you haven't achieved
anything yourself"
Didn't l lick tin peddler two
years ago."
That doesn't count"
Didn't L discover the fire in Elder
Greentree's barn."
Ninny shook her head
Can't 1 lift a quarter of beef?"
More shakes-sad shakes.
Did any of your back numbers
ever run mad dog out of the county
the way 1 did? Did any of them ever
climb creased pole at the county
1air and take the prize? Wasn't that
achieving?"
"A butcher-just a butcher, sighed
Ninny.
-Here-you come along with me-"
Where to?"
Bob almost dragged her along to
the river, twenty rods away. There
was bluff twenty feet high at that
point, and as they paused on the edge
he said:
Darn Bayard. Hellespont, Column
bus and the rest of the has-beens!
III show 'em what's what"
And lifting the girl off her feet he
1Iung her out, and she struck the
water with a great splash. He was
beside her to rescue her as she came
up, and when he had landed her be-
oraggled form on the grass lower
down ne stood off and demanded:
thing?"
"Oh, Bob, you have!" was the re-
ply.
And We'll get married?"
Next week, Bob-next week. All.
l m SO wet and happy!'-( Copyright,
1913 by the Mcclure Newsnaner Svn,
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
AYHAWKER JOTS

Eureka is to have a Carnegie library.
lola voted almost unanimously in
favor of granting a franchise to the
new interurban railway.
The Leavenworth Times has come
around Gen. Hancock's view that
the tariff is a local question"
Cherryvale has voted it's pool halls
out of existence and the Gazette urges
Lawrence to do the same thing.
The Humboldt Herald has been sold
to a man from Missouri. No doubt the
new editor will insist on being shown.
The Fort Scott Tribune says three
members of the city council were
drunk at the last meeting and the edi-
tor insists on knowing where they got
it.
Anna Carlson says the best men
among her acquaintance all are mar
ried. Did it ever occur that being mar
ried may account for their good char
acter?
The state has joined with the auto
mobile makers in trying to drive the
horse out of business. Oxen are used
for hauling and blowing at the peni-
tertiary farm.
Journal indicates that the editors his
tory is not on straight: April 4, 1861,
James H. Lane and c. S. Pomeroy be-
came the first United States senators
from Kansas. Afterwards Lane COM
mitted suicide. Pomeroy killed him
self politically by voting to acquit
Andrew Johnson" Substitute Ross for
Pomeroy and you have it.
If you have noticed anything lacking
in the Concordia Kansan, here is the
explanation from Conner Davies, him
self: I'VE must acknowledge that the
kansan does not contain the usual
pep in the editorial section. The
old man is not much account when
any one of his household is sick, and
the other employees of the office are
kept quite busy enough with their
own work. so they cannot do the
odd mans too. We are quite sure
that under the circumstances our short
comings will be overlooked"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
SAYS UNCLE CIV

It is not we'll to complain too much
of life's unceasing struggle. The
chances are that you don't mean what
you say upon this subject, that you
are patiently mistaken in your views
and that your neighbors will ruffle
your sensibilities by refusing to take
you seriously
True, you are entitled to a fair
chance. You should not be required
to go through your earthly existence
handicapped by hopeless environments
or lack of practical education. Society
owes to itself, as well as to you, the
duty to see that the man who is
stronger than you doesn't push you
through the horizon and off the earth.
Its duty is to preserve to you certain
inalienable rights, as saith the Dec
laratiOn of Independence, among these
being the right to work, to be paid
for your work, to live among sanitary
and cheerful surroundings, to love as
much as you will without becoming
nuisance, and to laugh as long and
loudly as you may without disturbing
the peace. When society has done
this, it has done about all that you can
ask of it. If it does more, it may
work you an irreparable injury.
Having had the work habit fixed
upon it through these millions of
years and having adjusted every
muscle, fiber, atom and sensation to
that habit, the human race is very
evidently committed to toll while time
shall last. He that loseth his labor
loseth his life, and we live by keeping
up our circulation. Our mental
health depends upon wanting things
and living in the hope of getting them.
Our bodily health requires the Stimu
lation of eXertion.
When we no longer want things and
reach for them we cease to live and
hoc DIN RI 10 a
ton of how long it will take dissolu-
ton to overcome the fabric of the
body. To have every want satisfied is
the acme of unhappiness. Witness
Alexander, who of this disappointment
fell into a fever and died because his
imagination could conceive no further
task for his genius. Witness the man
who has made his pile" and takes no
longer a lively interest in life. Death
is already upon him.
Whether there is any moral obliga-
ton to labor daily for that which we
consume and pay in human service
for that which sustains us, there is to
a certainty a physical obligation to do
so. To live in a world where nothing
is left to strive for would be torture
to the normal being, and that torture
would end in death. We have been
used for SO many untold generations
to the stimulation of toll that we can
not live without it in some form or
other. We are the seed of men who
only can we exist and perpetuate our
selves. The family that Tolls in the
lap of luxury for generations and in
termarries with others who live as
they, presently becomes extinct.
It's a choice between struggle and
extinction. If you wish gradually to
fade from this scene of strife, cease to
work. but before you pass out, the soul
of the cave man ancestor who, club in
hand. went out and fought the NAM
moth for his land, will rise up in your
veins to curse you.-(Copyright 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
LFrom the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Peace hath her Victories but some of us
hate peace
1t doesn't take an editor to turn down
a hard luck story.
The straight and narrow path is general
ly avoided by the rounder.
Even when woman is perfect poem
she is seldom averse to flattery.
Before a man can leave footprints in the
sands of time he must accomplish some
feat.
A girl of 16 never sees a play without
noting a striking resemblance betweei
herself and the heroine
Sillicus-''Do you believe that love is
due to microbe?" Cynicus-.Pd go far
Their than that l think it's a bug.
The man who doesn't know the differ
ence between work and play couldn't dis
tinguiSh a wheeibarrow from an automo-
bile.
Hubbubs-"Going to have garden this
year, Subbubs?' Subbubs-'No, 1 think
I'll trade my garden for good can
opener"
We can't have everything we want.
Many a man with corn beef and cab
baye appetite has one of those milk toast
stomachs.
Tommy-"Pop. what is expert?''
Ton1my's Pop-"An expert. my son, is a
person who is able to impress us with
how little We really know
Some things are better left unsaid
quoted the Wise Guy. Sure, agreed
the Simple Mug. Every breach of prom
Use suit demonstrates that.
Man is made of dust" remarked the
minister solemnly. Yes, but dust set
tiles. which is more than can be said of
some men, replied the worldly one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08

putes- The commission does not APP
pear to be such a dictator as the
statute seemed to make it, and the
railways are less the humble servants
of the commission than they seemed.
Also, the shippers who assent to the
rates now fixed are not such victims
as they were described, and described
themselves. If only this agreement
had been reached sooner, all concern
ed would have been saved much trou-
BILE and politics. The appearance is
that of simple and satisfactory solu-
ton of a complicated case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
THE TARIFF BILL.

The tariff bill is in and if it pass
as drawn the people will get what
they have been clamoring for-cheap-
er food and cheaper raw material for
use in manufacturing.
Among the important raw materials
placed on the free list are wool, lum-
Der, coal and iron.
Among the food products made free
of duty are meats, flour, bread, milk,
cream, potatoes, hogs and corn.
of greatest Importance to the BUSH
ness interests of the country, per-
haps, is the removal of the tariff from
steel rails. The price at which they
have been sold in the past has been
a heavy handicap on the building of
new lines and the upkeep of old ones
That there has not been serious COM
plant on this score may be due to
two reasons.
First the manufacturers are to a
large extent owners of the roads, and
the sale of rails has been in a meas
ure a process of transferring money
from one pocket to the other
Second, the railroads have been
able to transfer the extra burden to
the shoulders of their patrons in the
form of freight and passenger tariffs
This tax being an invisible one, the
public has not loudly complained.
But there is many a slip betwixt
the introduction of a tariff bill and
its enactment into law, so that 1t is
hardly worth while to attempt to
draw conclusions as to the probable
effect of this on the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
THE DRIVERS.


In the roar of the white-streaked rapids
And the boom of the deep green falls,
In the creak of the straining sluices,
The voice of our master calls.
For we are the rivers servants
And we bide with the rivers will,
For him is our toll and labor,
And his the right to kill.
Our strength is the strength of the waters
That foam on the jagged rocks,
That boils In the deep, dark eddies.
And tear at the sluice-gate blocks,
And out through the black-walled forests
That over the whirlpools bend,
we Will follow the trail of the river
Till we come to the rivers end.
Small time shall there be for sleeping,
When the boom-logs SILVER the ice,
we gamble our lives with the river,
But the river holds loaded dice.
Full many a stone shall witness
A life that the falls have won,
What matter the toll of the drivers
If the work of the drive be done?
Yale Literary Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
ATQ I'LL 10 dONnH

Her parents sent her to Europe in the
hope that she would get over her infatua-
ton for young Flubdub." AN easier way
would be for him to let her marry him.
Judge.
Your wife doesn't play bridge at all,
does she?" mo. She's stopped entirely"
What was the cure?" she lost 81 to her
dearest friends" Lost both her money
and her friend. eh?" 'Exactly.'-Cleve-
land Plain-DeaIer.
"OId links made all his money from
lawsuits, volunteered the club gossip.
quite remarkablei' exclaimed the new
member. No: he a lawyer" ex-
planned the gossip.-Buffalo Express
Dropped little at roulette while was
abroad remarked the ice man. "Can
beat that game" said the coal man.
Wasn't trying to. 1 just wanted to see
how If feels to lose money."-Washingto
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News.l

Jealousy is the offspring of distrust.
The more birthdays a woman has the
less they count.
Treat people kindly and you will find
them easier to work
Many man has married in haste ana
paid alimony at leisure
A sentimental girl is lost at a wedding
without a dainty handkerchief.
Honesty never looks better to a man
than when it comes home to roost.
Everything comes to him who waits
He'll even get the earth when he dies.
Occasionally We meet a man who acts
as If he was living his life by contract.
Nothing pleases some people-but they
get kind of satisfaction out of knocking
When a woman runs after a man ne
tries to lose her, but when she flees he is
quick to pursue
There's always some man around t.
second any kind of a motion-except
motion that looks like work.
After an orator has reached the top lie
will not express his opinions unless some
one is willing to pay the express charges.
It takes a romantic girl to refer to a
caterpillar as an unfinished butterfly
and a cynical man to call a butterfly an
overdone caterpillar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08

The pure food authorities of the de-
partment of agriculture have ruled that
not more than 2 per cent of cereal
may be added to the meat in the pre-
paration of sausage. There is hope
that ultimately the poor restaurant
patron, says the Philadelphia Bulletin.
may get an official ruling as to how
many oysters are necessary to consti-
tute stew whether more than one
morsel of white chicken is sufficient to
warrant a serving of crust and gravy
being termed chicken pie" whether
lamb chop shall provide two bites or
one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-08

The usual fate of third parties be-
falls the Bull Moose organiza ton. Tt
seems to matter little in what state
an election is held this spring. SAYS
the Buffalo News. the party appears
to have lost ground greatly since the
canvass of last year. Even in the
county of the leader of the party the
recession of the tide is marked. 1t is
not less so in Chicago and in the towns
all over this state. In fact
wherever there is the counting
of votes, there is a revelation of
Republican renewal of strength, of the
standing still of the Democratic party,
even though it is in power in most
of the states, and the return of the
seceders of last year to the real party
of progress.